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MxMo: Witches’ Garden

May 20

This is probably the best smelling syrup ever. Perhaps not the manliest. I'm cutting it pretty close on this Mixology Monday. Call it poor planning or ...poor planning? I sure cant blame it on the theme, since it was wide open to interpretation, benefiting from the broad nature of "gardens". I guess you could make

Hey That’s My Bike

Apr 1

So...Easter happened. Yeah. That was fun? It's a weird holiday; Especially if you don't have kids and aren't ("and arent?" what fucking language is this blog in?) religious (unless you count religiously day drinking on Easter Sunday). So for me it was making brunch-y egg drinks for my fiance and me while hearing our neighbor's kids

Wanderlust

Mar 9

Wanderlust. I mean, the name says it all, right? No? Ok... I've been working on this drink for a while and it seems that every time I make it, I either forget the ratios, what goes in it or simply end up calling it something different. At one time, I was cracking black pepper in

La Cubanita

Dec 14

I intended to name this post "The eternal struggle for Bank's 5 Island Rum" but it doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. So instead I made a drink inspired by the infuriatingly-hard-to-find rum (in the NorthEast at least) which I finally got a couple weeks ago after a +month long search, along with my own

Herbalism

Dec 14

It's OK to change your mind. I mean, we do it all the time, right? Sometimes I wear different socks in the morning (I'm not just talking about color here, I mean, 1 will be an ankle sock and the other will be a barely elastic crew sock with a hole in the front big

Le Doux Mule

Oct 15

2 parts pear vodka. [ Grey Goose La Poire ] 1/2 part fresh squeezed lime juice [ and I do mean FRESH ] 1/2 part ginger liquor. [ Domain de Canton ] A little ginger beer just to top it off. [ don't you dare use ginger ale ] Moscow Mule’s get assembled within the