Are you planning to try recipes alpha to omega? Or find a few perfect mixes to repeat? Or just exercise your bar?

I might have to read a reply tomorrow. Heading to bed. Enjoy the lounge!

A Dungeness crab cocktail with Mexican street corn preceded and followed by nice Anderson Valley Pinot Noir. Cheers 🍷

I will say that this puts Trump in a position in which, anything Mamdani succeeds at, Trump will claim it was his idea.

It’s my comfort drink. It’s a beautiful Friday evening on the patio with Henri Mancini on the Echo. The great thing about this drink beside being cold and refreshing is I can drink a lot of them without getting too sauced.

There are times when I miss my home state of Texas. Increasingly few times, nowadays. But a few.

Glad you have something to take the edge off. I have nothing but wine in the house and it is not working to soothe the stress. I need a Jameson or even a Jack Daniels. Interestingly, I never had either one until November of last year. Hmm...wonder why.

Cheers, Aristus! Have a great weekend.

My personal favorite whiskey.

If you were here, I’d bore you to tears with my enthusiasm for Lagavulin. Then you would try it, and see for yourself.

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I'll be sure to get some tomorrow. Might even try a little day drinking.

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Told you I’d bore you to tears…

But give it a try, friend. I'll be here all weekend.

brb…

Lagavulin over chilled whiskey stones. Smokey, peaty, my lips and tongue are tingling…

Cheers!

The implication of the whole display of all the "manly" accoutrements of refined male drinking was that permanent ice cubes were some brand new thing. I had been using permanent ice cubes since my teens (yes, we had ice cubes back in tthe last millenium!). Granted, the first set I bought was pink elephants, which I used to great effect, so the stones are definitely classier!

I get a lot of use out of them.

I haven't felt adventurous with my drinking in awhile.

God, where to start?…

Cheers 🍸

Dirtier than a dirty Martini?

weekend off, do something fun or relaxing. I am cheating. . Kirkland liqueur eggnog, a splash of brandy in my coffee. It is a damp, chilly night.

Egg nog on a cold, blustery night. Makes you glad to be alive. Nowadays, we need anything that does.

They are pretty good when mixed correctly.
Most bartenders have no clue. Some bars here don't even have dark rum.

So I'm mixing my own for the holidays.

It’s a good drink

Just this morning, someone asked Miss Manners how to drink a pousse-cafe. I knew there were layered drinks but what they were called.

I was going to ask Aristus if they ever made a pousse-cafe, and here is a post mentioning them.

For the record, Miss Manners suggested that you enjoy each layer and the ingredients will mix as you drink. And she was going to go try one

I mix a pretty good one!

Stormbreaker Winter Coat. A dark winter strong ale. And I was given a Cafe Pied Noir. It's a cup of strong French coffee with a shot of anisette.

wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?