Category: General

  • The Coffee Cocktail

    Ok, here’s a quick riddle for you.  What has no coffee in it and isn’t technically a cocktail?  Give up?  It’s this week’s drink, the Coffee Cocktail.  So named not because of its ingredients but rather for its appearance when mixed properly.  Why not a true cocktail?  Well when the word cocktail originated it meant…

  • Review – Dancing Pines Distillery

    One thing that never ceases to impress me about distillers is their passion for what they do.  A few weeks back I took a trip north to Dancing Pines Distillery in Loveland, CO.  Walking through the front door I met with another display of that passion.  The still is right up front, Kimberly Naslund (one…

  • Hot Toddy on Raising the Bar

    Serendipitous timing, I should think.  There is a video on Raising the Bar with Jamie Boudreau over at Small Screen Network right now featuring a Blue Blazer Style Hot Toddy.  Pretty cool technique.  I’ve not mustered the courage to give it a go yet.  Fiery hands sound bad.  Any of you brave enough?

  • Foodista Featured Drink Blog of the Day

    Cocktail Hacker is Foodista’s Featured Drink Blog of the Day today! :)  Cruise on over to the site and check out some of the other great food & drink blogs and features.  Very cool site.

  • Vanilla Extract

    Vanilla extract is one of those ingredients that we all have sitting in our cupboards and, I would venture to guess, most of us don’t know the first thing about it.  I certainly didn’t.  That is, until I started learning digging in to the facts about vanilla a year or so back.  But let me…