ToTC Recipe Book Winner

Marshall | September 8, 2009

Annnnnnndddddddd . . . we have a winner!  The rules were pretty simple.  Tell me how you started down the cocktail path, the catalyst if you will, and tell me your favorite cocktail.
And the winner is Helena Tiare Olson from Stockholm, Sweden.  Tiare is also the writer of A Mountain of Crushed Ice.  And without [...]

My first time behind the stick! or How one night out can change a mood.

Marshall | May 31, 2009

It is amazing how one evening can put a smile on your face.  This past week was nothing but a stressful, anxiety-ridden ride through work where no one in my office is sure whether we’ll be laid-off or not.  I’ve been stressed out, nervous, and, quite frankly in a pissy mood for at least two [...]

Mixology Monday – Hard Drinks for Hard Times

Marshall | February 16, 2009

This month’s Mixology Monday with brought to us by Matthew Rowley of Rowley’s Whiskey Forge.  Matt’s topic seems very a propos with the current state of the United State’s economy, massive bail-outs every where you look and all around belt tightening when it comes to finances.  For this topic I really had to sit down [...]

MxMo – New Horizons

Marshall | January 20, 2009

Welcome to the first Mixology Monday of 2009!  This MxMo is quite interesting. As I sit here in front of my computer to write this post, the theme of this MxMo causes a good deal of retrospective thought and contemplation of the year to come.  The theme for this MxMo is “New Horizons” and is [...]

Mixology Monday – 19th Century Cocktails

Marshall | September 15, 2008

It is another Mixology Monday and our hosts, Joe and Dinah (aka Metagrrrl) over at Bibulo.us, have chosen 19th Century Cocktails as the theme.  Thankfully this theme is pretty straight forward because I’ve been pretty busy lately.
For this month, I relied on Harry Johnson’s “Bartenders’ Manual” which was originally published in 1882!
The first cocktail I [...]