video game drinks

SeanMike | May 14, 2008

Since my “other unpaid second job” is a video game reviewer for GamersInfo.net, I spend at least a bit of time each day perusing sites such as Kotaku. Today on there I saw this post listing out the drinks EA came out for the EA Games Spring Break 08. I was even more amused to [...]

Orange liqueur tasting

SeanMike | April 2, 2008

A while ago – and I’m not going to dignify by saying how long ago, as it makes me look more like a slacker the more I think about it – my compatriot tmfiii and I did a taste test of three different orange liqueurs – Cointreau, Grand Marnier, and Creole Shrubb. The impetus behind [...]

Feeling Lucid now

SeanMike | January 26, 2008

As my esteemed co-poster tmfiii pointed out, we did a pilgrimage to Schneider’s today.  I wish I could get out there spending less than three digits. I actually would’ve today had it not been for one thing: Lucid absinthe. I have kind of a “hate/hate” relationship with Pernod.  I definitely don’t care for it straight, [...]

what’s too strong for a new person?

SeanMike | January 19, 2008

My neighbor and his brother came over tonight.  My neighbor was sick.  I’d been reading Imbibe! the other day, so I made him a cherry smash: Cherry Smashby Julie Reiner via Imbibe! by David Wondrich 1 1/2 ounces Courvosier VS cognac (I used the Castarede XO armagnac)3/4 ounce orange curacao (Cointreau)3/4 ounce lemon juice1/2 ounce [...]

well – crap!

SeanMike | January 3, 2008

While cleaning up on New Year’s Eve, having made a number of cocktails (and did vodka shots, which I think helped erase most of the end of the night), I managed to drop my bottle of Fee’s West Indian Orange bitters. CRAP! So I call Scheider’s and they do have it in stock.  That’s good, [...]