[ed. A question about green cocktails was posed during one of the panels at Rum Fest yesterday which just happened to coincide with Blog Action Day, so I've consulted our resident environmentally friendly forest creature and connoisseur of fine exotic cocktails, Adam. Adam provided the deliciously green photo above as well.]
Yesterday was Blog Action Day, [...]

I am a lurker. And according to my stats, 90% of you are too. How do you know if you’re a lurker?
Let us imagine together …

You are sitting at your computer sipping a tasty concoction, one of your standbys, and going through your list of bookmarked cocktail blogs. You scan headlines looking [...]

Bourbon, caressed by a hint of Galliano and doused with aromatic bitters; juice from a plump, ripe orange, cognac and the sweet herbalness of Benedictine; sweet creme de banane sedated with cognac and prodded with orange bitters; a generous helping of reposado tequila and Barbados rum, tightened up with grapefruit and pineapple juices; a [...]

For 95% of bar goers, “bitters” are an unknown substance. And of that 5% who have discovered the secret treasure, probably less than 1% actually know bitters as anything beyond that mis-wrapped bottle with a yellow cap crusted to the top with sticky brown goo.

Then again, those few people probably have a blog and [...]

You may be asking yourself a couple of questions about this picture, such as:

Why is there a huge stargazer lily presiding like an ominous alien over the drink?
Even though this tiki drink is the same color as nearly every other tiki drink, does it contain a secret ingredient?
Is that a wooden back-scratcher?

Well, let’s see. [...]