Category: General

  • RSS Feed Change

    I’ve recently switched our RSS feed over to FeedBurner.  If you have any issues with the old feed (http://cocktailhacker.com/?feed=rss2) please change your readers to point to the new one (http://feeds.feedburner.com/CocktailHacker) or use the RSS link in the lower right of the page.  That said, the old feed should redirect to the FeedBurner link so there…

  • Homemade Irish Cream – Bottled Awesome

    Making homemade Irish Cream is a yearly holiday tradition for me.  I’ve been making it for about 6 to 7 years and my friends and family have come to expect their yearly supply.  This year marked my highest production year, but as always I had a great time making it and have an even better…

  • Baileys – The Original Irish Cream

    So, answer me this, what discussion about Irish Cream is complete without a brief mention of Baileys?  I’m betting nearly every person who has a liquor cabinet has a bottle somewhere in the depths.  I, oddly enough, did not, so thanks go out to my Mom for donating her bottle to the cause.  Baileys is…

  • Repeal Day is Nearly Upon Us!

    As you may or may not be aware Friday, December 5th, 2008 marks the 75th anniversary of the repeal of prohibition in the US.  A while back Jeffrey Morgenthaler, a bartender, cocktail enthusiast and freaking genius, realized there was a serious need for another drinking holiday and as such Repeal Day was born.  I had…