Hack what you drink!

  • Review – The Punch Bowl

    Sweet, sour, spice, water and alcohol.  Those are the five, seemingly simple, components of every good punch.  But, I’ll ask you this.  Have you ever tried to come up with your own punch?  Was it good?  What about great?  I’m willing to bet, coming from past experience, that it wasn’t amazing.  If you’re lucky it…

  • Review – JetBag

    I was sent a couple JetBags a few weeks back for review and was excited but skeptical.  The idea behind the bags is that they have absorbent material inside which will soak up the entire contents of a 750ml bottle of liquid should the need arise.  Simply place your bottle in the bag, seal it…

  • Sea Spray Kiss

    I’m not going to make every recipe from Cosmo’s Official Cocktail Book, I promise.  Just this last one, the Sea Spray Kiss.  Of the cocktails we tried from the book it’s a toss up for me which is my favorite, the Stout Float or the Sea Spray Kiss.  Both have their merits and, really, shouldn’t…

  • Links and Reading List

    I’ve been doing some cleaning up around the site as you’ve probably noticed.  As part of this I decided to move my links and blogroll to their own page.  In so doing, I’ve just gone through all my links and my RSS feed list (blogroll) culling out inactive sources and adding new.  I know I’ve…

  • Dancing with the Devil

    “You ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?” No?  Yeah, me either.  I prefer to sin indirectly through the consumption of spirituous liquors, sometimes in excess.  Speaking of drinking, here’s another cocktail from Cosmo’s Official Cocktail Book, Dancing with the Devil.  This drink sounds promising right from the start.  Tequila, Chambord, ginger beer?…