An Ode To Irish Cocktail Joy — The Good Cork
Ms. Cocktail Den had a business trip to Cork, a small city in southwest Ireland, and I shamelessly tagged along.…
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Oblique Cocktail Strategies — The Another Green World
National Rum Day gives us an opportunity to think outside the cocktail box. Fellow cocktailer Michael Bounds, who brought us…
Tales Of Evolution
You say you want an evolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the cocktail world. That’s not exactly…
Pour Some Sugar Cane On Me — Rum, Rhum Agricole, and Cachaça
The Def Leppard song “Pour Some Sugar On Me” is an iconic rock anthem from the 1980s, and it’s one…
Tales of Grain and Suggestion
Grain and suggestion are not words you usually see in the same sentence. They were the subjects of an interesting…
Drinking Like Jersey Boys and Girls — The Newark
I’ve never been to Newark (only through it), but I’ve repeatedly heard it is not one of New Jersey’s highlights. …
Offbeat Cocktail Rhythm — The Syncopation
Syncopation is a musical term that refers to stressing an offbeat note. In 1919 the iconic American songwriter Irving Berlin…
The KISS Principle in Cocktails
This KISS principle is not the one declaring you should rock and roll all night and party every day (although…
Et Tu, Cocktail? — The Ides Of March
The Ides of March refers to March 15. That’s the day Roman senators stabbed and assassinated Julius Caesar. In the…
Orange Is The New Cocktail — The Orange Satchmo
Satchmo (short for “satchel mouth”) is the nickname of the late great musical legend Louis Armstrong. It’s also the name…