Tag: General
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Halloween Cocktails 2011
It’s Halloween time again fellow drinkers! This year I went for a smallish cocktail menu for a game night with my friends. I included one classic because, let’s face the facts, the Corpse Reviver #2 is damned delicious. As for the other two, I went with a couple interesting recipes that I found on the…
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The Afterlife of a Bourbon Barrel
According to a recent article on Yahoo! Finance there are currently over 5 million barrels of whiskey aging in Kentucky alone. And, unlike other spirits industries, those barrels will be used for bourbon only one time. You see, per federal guidelines, to be called bourbon, whiskey must be aged in new charred oak barrels. So,…
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Alcohol Helps Make You Sick
I’m a positive kind of guy. I don’t like to share bad news, but this one I felt needed to be told. We all know that alcohol is a diuretic and a mild poison. As a result if you drink too much you feel like death (e.g. the dreaded hangover). But, now comes the really…
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Drink Like A Pirate Day
Yar, me mateys. On the morrow ye’ll be talking like a salty sea dog, but will ye be drinkin’ as much? I’d bet me grog you haven’t planned for it. Yarrrr, I can’t do that anymore. To you native pirate talkers, my hat is off to you. But seriously, tomorrow is Talk Like a Pirate…
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BarSmarts Advanced
Have you ever been talking with someone and had them say something along the lines of “Oh, man. You put Jeff and Dave in a room and you’ve got a party.” You know the kind of line I’m talking about. It’s rarely true, very cliche and mostly annoying. Well, get ready for one of my…