Thursday Drink Night

Marshall | January 28, 2009

If you are a regular reader of the Scofflaw’s Den, you probably already are familiar with Thursday Drink Night (TDN.)  For those who aren’t, here is a little primer. Every Thursday night (officially) beginning at 7pm EST, cocktail enthusiasts, bloggers, writers, bartenders and other sundry forms of riff-raff gather at the online Mixoloseum Bar.  We [...]

Mixing with Sandeman’s Port

SeanMike | December 22, 2008

So, the last Thursday Drink Night of 2008 was sponsored by our friends over at Sandeman’s.  They hooked us up with two kinds of their port – the Founder’s Reserve (a ruby port) and the 10 year old (a tawny).  An accurate depiction of it is shown in Sam’s cartoon about the night here.  I [...]

Mixology Monday: Spice

SeanMike | December 16, 2008

So Mixology Monday definitely caught me off-guard this month.  Fortunately for me, I had something up my sleeve purely by coincidence. You see, one of our neighbors had a Christmas party on Saturday night.  When we were talking about he expressed interest in having eggnog.  None of us had really had eggnog before and his [...]

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 [...]

The Halloween Menu

Marshall | November 6, 2008

Now that the election is over and things have quieted down a little, I wanted to take a moment to share the cocktail menu from my Halloween party.  I had lucky thirteen of my close friends over for drinks, conversation and Halloween merriment.  The party was a great success.  At least that’s what people told [...]