Two taste tests

SeanMike | November 29, 2008

A bit ago I saw someone talking about the newest sweet tea vodka out there – Sweet Carolina.
I was born and raised on sweet tea.  While sweet tea isn’t necessarily a northern WV thing, it is a southwestern VA thing, and my mom was from south WV, so she taught me the “proper” way to [...]

The past weekend, Repeal Day, Holiday Cocktails, and more.

SeanMike | November 24, 2008

1.  So Rick from Kaiser Penguin showed up in town this weekend.  He and his friend Char joined us at Bourbon Friday night, and then we met him and Matt from A Jigger of Blog over at The Gibson.  Good times were had by all and once again we had the pleasure of having Tiff [...]

Welcome to Weekend Update, I’m (not) Chevy Chase.

Marshall | November 22, 2008

In today’s news, several cocktail bloggers were spotted tearing through Owen Thomson’s cocktail menu last night at Bourbon in Adams Morgan in what could only be described as a booze-fest.  It’s being reported that those in attendance were SeanMike and Marshall of The Scofflaw’s Den and Rick of KaiserPenguin.com accompanied by the lovely Char.
We’re getting [...]

I’m so excited…

SeanMike | November 20, 2008

…and I just can’t hide it…
Sorry.  I’ll try to distract y’all away from the horrors of my singing.
Tonight is Thursday Drink Night (TDN) at the Mixoloseum – and for the first time, it’s sponsored, this time by Leblon cachaca.  I’m very excited about some stuff with that!
I’ve not experimented a lot with cachaca but I’ve [...]

The Gibson (with trips to Cork and CommonWealth)

SeanMike | November 17, 2008

I’m not talking about the eponymous martini variation that utilizes the cocktail onion but rather the new bar not far from Cork and Marvin.  The Gibson only opened this past Wednesday.
It was one of those random Saturdays – I had absolutely nothing planned to do.  It was kind of weird, in fact.  I mentioned such [...]