Category: Wrap Up

  • Mamie Taylor – Refreshing as a Scottish Day

    Imagine a perfect day in Scotland.  The mist is clearing off the rolling green hills, the sun is breaking through the clouds, it’s going to be a fantastic day.  You spend the day fishing, or shopping, or golfing, or whatever floats your boat.  Come middle of the afternoon it’s warm and you’re ready for a…

  • Milk Punch – Fallesque

    I’ve been drinking a lot of Milk Punch these last couple weeks, as has nearly anyone that came over.  Fall is in the air here and the flavors in this drink fit very nicely into my current state of mind.  There is the warmth and sweetness from the rum and brandy.  There is the warm…

  • Tequila Sunrise – Mildly Uninspiring

    As a cocktail writer, some of these wrap up posts are much easier than other.  Sometimes I’m very excited to pass on what I’ve learned over the course of my experiments and other times I need a swift kick in the ass to get it all down.  Sadly the Tequila Sunrise falls under the latter…

  • The Bebbo: A Cocktail Even a Bee Could Love

    Well, friends, this post marks the end of my first weeks back and they’ve been fantastic.  Mixing up drinks, participating in MxMo, reviewing spirits, ah, it’s good to be back.  So, what of the Bebbo?  Allow me to say first that it was a fantastic drink to come back with.  The mix of gin, citrus…

  • Honeymoon Cocktail – An Apple A Day

    An apple a day keeps the doctor away.  Or so the saying goes.  So what does the distilled essence of a bushel-load of apples get you?  A damn fine cocktail and, near as I can discern, immortality.  The Honeymoon Cocktail is another drink where the fresh apple flavor of the calvados really makes the drink…