Fruit With Wildfire — The Intense Spiced Pear Martini
Pear and ginger might sound like a weird combination. Sometimes weird is good. In the case of the Intense Spiced…
A CFIT Cocktail — The Burnt Fuselage
CFIT is an aviation acronym that stands for “controlled flight into terrain.” It’s a benign sounding term for a catastrophic…
DJ Cocktail — Mixing Beats And Drinks
Who knew being a DJ is like being a bartender? I never thought about it until Ms. Cocktail Den and…
A Bullfighting Drink — The Matador
Bullfighting is a brutally elegant spectacle of human versus animal. A matador is the man or woman (or rabbit, if…
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.…
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…
A Drink for Iron Man — The Stark
In the superhero universe Tony Stark is Iron Man. Played by Robert Downey, Jr. in the eponymous movies and the…
Lively, Strong, And Pink — The Scandinavian Suntan
After spending a few days in Copenhagen, Oslo, and Stockholm, I got a pleasant surprise — a suntan. Ok, I…