Friday Night Tiki

Marshall | October 26, 2007

Here in Arlington it has been very rainy and cool the last few days.  I honestly like the cool weather and the rain doesn’t really bother me.  But tonight, I decided that I wanted to start the night off with something a little tropical . . . something a little tiki.  Maybe a little something [...]

Thursday night

SeanMike | October 25, 2007

I’m not going to work on Friday, so we’ll see how that works out – evidently Johnny’s Half Shell has a special mixed drink for UVA alumni.  We’ll see how that goes. After hitting Claire & Don’s and having a couple of Sierra Nevada Pale Ales, we went home and I made myself a double-sized [...]

The Rum Motherload

Marshall | October 25, 2007

I was out getting lunch today and stopped into a liquor store near my office.  I can’t remember the name of it . . . kind of the par-for-the-course quintessential DC liquor store where they have lottery/convenience/wine/liquor everywhere and run by people who don’t care about their customers or being helpful in the least little [...]

What’s the perfect “I’ve just been dumped” drink?

SeanMike | October 25, 2007

I realized last night that this is the first time I have been the one getting dumped (at  least, past the first-second date kind of thing).  That sucks. Oh well. So when I got home and told Cathy about it, she asked me if I wanted a drink.  Not right then, I didn’t, but later [...]

Argghhhhh Matey

Marshall | October 24, 2007

Recently I posted about the latest set of swag I got from Amazon to make tasty beverages with, one of those being falernum.  I have wanted this particular ingredient ever since I started getting into classic cocktails because of its use in tiki drinks.  You know the kind of drinks I’m referring to, drinks such [...]