• Hanky Panky Cocktail

    As a tribute to the recently celebrated International Women’s Day, we thought we would give today’s cocktail, the Hanky Panky cocktail, a whirl.  It’s…

  • Satan’s Whiskers

    With the start of the new year, it’s time to resume blogging.  Last year was not an epic year for the blog, though we…

  • 2015 in review

    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people.…

  • A bitter edge

    This weeks post is a bit of a departure from the usual cocktail recipe and discussion.  Instead I want to discuss something essential to…

  • The Widow’s Kiss

    I have to confess that I found this one looking for something with Calvados in it.  In looking at it, it had pretty much…

  • Agricole Daiquiri

    This twist on the classic involves one of my favorite things… quirky booze.  This time it’s rhum agricole.   All rum is originally fermented…

  • Bijou

    One of the problems with the history of cocktails, is that the people most qualified to write it would rather be drinking.  Those that…

  • Kir Royale

    Kir Royale

    Tonight is one of those great summer evenings. There’s a cool breeze blowing in off the Sacramento River delta. The blackberries in the sorbet…

  • On the way to ten…

    B & I are actually mid cocktail right now (a Blackthorn to be specific).  We’ve begun discussing our ten greatest cocktails of all times. …

  • The Emerson

    I was looking back through the cocktails that I wanted to write about and found this one from back in May, 2007.  Okay, curious.…