This series on cheater ingredients started off with grapefruit. Cinnamon is another tool in our veritable MacGyver toolkit for fixing cocktails and one that, unsurprisingly, matches very well with grapefruit. Leafing through one of my treasured reference cookbooks which might as well just be a nerdy spreadsheet of ingredient pairings, I looked for cinnamon. Cilantro […]

Upcoming TDN – Bad Names Scour the internets and you’ll find cocktails of every sort; few will prance around like sexy beasts of palate-quenching, while most are hellish abominations of deceit and despair. Kind of like guitar tabs. There is also no shortage of awful, offensive names for drinks, often shots served in college towns […]

Jannamico Super Punch tastes like liquid fruit cake. And I’m not talking about your lovely homemade variety with dried fruit, nuts, rum, etc. I’m talking those grocery store, candied-orange monstrosities that have a shelf life longer than Pop Tarts. It also has this spicy caramel syrup quality to it. Yet, despite all of that, I […]

Welcome Stumblers! If you’re new, make sure to check out what Thursday Drink Night is all about. Upcoming TDN – BarSol Pisco Our first pisco-themed TDN ( What’s Thursday Drink Night? ) will feature one of the most-liked of its kind among cocktail enthusiasts – BarSol. Diego Loret de Mola, a knowledgeable and passionate pisco […]

Upcoming TDN – Metaxa Metaxa is a Greek spirit that combines house-distilled brandy with aged muscat wine. It is a potion I have fond memories of sipping years ago, so I’m quite excited to craft cocktails with it this coming week for Thursday Drink Night. A few of us (Matt, Matt, Gabe, Camper, Marleigh, Michele, […]

Late winter seems to have summoned the exotic in all of us, with Matt and his attempts to try 473 different combinations of rum in his Mai Tai, to an entire Thursday Drink Night devoted to the Zombie, and finally with Doug, who devoted the entire month of February to tiki drinks. My consumption of […]

What the heck is Thursday Drink Night? I love tiki drinks. And the Zombie is about as close as you can get to tiki perfection. So, as one might expect, we decided to improve upon a classic, or better said, create a ton of wacky new spin-offs that break nearly every rule of Zombie creation. […]