Upcoming TDN – Clear Spirits Itching to use that bottle of Oronoco? What about a favorite gin or blanche absinthe? And you know everything is improved with a little JWray floated on top. Join us Thursday Night to mix up original libations featuring the see-through spirit of your choice. The best original potion will win […]

This week we’ll be mixing original cocktails with Kahlua’s new offering: Coffee Cream. Being a huge fan of cream-based spirits, I’m excited to work with it and wondering what will happen when people try to mix it with citrus. On top of the usual cocktail slinging in the chatroom, we’ll have a fairly big live […]

A year ago, this week, the revelry began. And if my sundial displays truth, the Mixoloseum has hosted 50 Thursday Drink Nights since that first mixological day. In that time, cocktail enthusiasts, writers, and bartenders have created over 500 original cocktails using everything from Fernet Branca to buttermilk. Guests who once came in fear of […]

Upcoming TDN – Beat the Heat For some folks on the west coast, the heat has been sweltering. Not unlike a deep-fried bowl of crisp pig ears. No, wait – wrong kind of hot. The sun has been beating down on our whining PNW brethren like Thor’s Wondrich’s Hammer on a block of ice. And […]

Upcoming TDN – Cleaning House How many bottles in your liquor cabinet have less than 2oz of booze left in them? Yeah, thought so. Whether sad and forlorn or saved for those extra-special last few drops, those bottles have a destiny to meet this Thursday. And they won’t be the only players – get out […]

Slime green hand grenades, candy cane sazeracs, and Chartreuse swizzles are but a sampling of the poisons we quaffed down with glee this year in New Orleans. For many of you, this week’s TDN ( What’s Thursday Drink Night? ) will be a chance to relive last week’s memories but for others it will offer […]

The last TDN before Tales! The undisputed ruler of the Land of Orange Liqueuria will be holding court, and we’ve been invited to create original cocktails for her royal armada. Cointreau also happens to be one of few high-quality liqueurs you can still find behind nearly any bar. And as I’m sure it’s behind your […]

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 […]

Upcoming TDN – Muddled Just-picked, ripe strawberries, crushed until their red satin juice stains your muddler. A few slices of ginger, mashed into a stringy lattice of spice. Two basil leaves, delicately pressed into some simple syrup, imbuing it with aromatic delight. A dash of bitters, a jigger of booze, and you have an original […]

Upcoming TDN – Bols Genever Genever may be my favorite new spirit of the year. Combining the coniferous lure of juniper with a proper gentleman’s dose of malt, Genever manages to taste like gin and whisky at the same time. If only other spirit flavor profiles combined in such quizzically alluring ways… like rum and […]