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Drink of the Week: The Dirty Martini
For my first Drink of the Week post of 2015, I thought I’d go back to my deepest cocktail roots. Long before I discovered the pleasures of a perfectly mixed Old Fashioned, I was an inveterate drinker...
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Drink of the Week: Nolet’s Negroni (modified)
Gin gets plenty of respect among cocktail aficionados — certainly more than vodka — but it’s still mainly thought of as a something best enjoyed in some kind of mixed drink, whether it’s as unvarnished...
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Drink of the Week: The Safer Dayquil (do not combine with actual Dayquil!)
Sometimes funny things happen in the land of drinks that make you think funny. In this case it was a very offhand Facebook remark in which I, in a fit of hubris, implied that I would come up with a...
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Drink of the Week: Shock Me
Since the Superbowl is just about upon us, a beer-based recipe seems like a good idea and, guess what, we’re in luck. You see, with the aid of divine providence (which I’m agnostic about), not to...
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Get some Samuel Adams Cold Snap for the Super Bowl
Cold Snap is the latest beer creation from Samuel Adams we tried, and the name pretty much says it all. It’s an unfiltered White Ale with a smooth wheat taste brightened up with some spring spices....
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Drink of the Week: The Gin Rickey
It’s probably somewhat criminal that it’s taken me so long to get to a drink that’s as simple and classic as the Gin Rickey. Like the Martini, this is a drink that not everyone will cotton to...
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Drink of the Week: The Berried Treasure
Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. Yeah, I know. Just let me say this, whatever side of the various debates around this holiday you are, whether you are joyously in love, miserably alone, happily alone,...
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Drink of the Week: The Big and Stout
I see my share of boozy pitches here at Drink of the Week Central and, believe it or not, I ignore a great many of them. Still, I couldn’t ignore the one that came from the melding of the great nations...
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Drink of the Week: The Cru-Zen
People keep sending me free bottles of booze and recipes to go with them, and I keep noting that many of the cocktails developed to promote liquor brands are extremely good…all the better to market the...
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Drink of the Week: Basil Hayden’s Power Play
This week we finally come to the end of a cycle of posts featuring a number of good-to-fantastic cocktails, all courtesy of the gods of booze publicity and the free bottles of booze they are kind...
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Drink of the Week: Alternative Ulster
As I noted towards the end of last week’s post, I tragically missed St. Patrick’s Day this year. That’s sort of unfortunate since it’s probably the U.S.A.’s second biggest drinking holiday following...
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Drink of the Week: The Brainstorm
So, last week we began my two-part penance for missing my St. Patrick’s Day cocktail window. Today’s drink is supposed to be the direct descendant of Alternative Ulster, but to me it’s really a...
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Drink of the Week: The Egg (TCM Fest Salute #1)
Yes, it’s time for another four-part salute to the just now bygone Turner Classic Movies Festival of 2015. For the second year in a row, I’ll be presenting cocktails of my own creation inspired by...
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Drink of the Week: The Proud Rebel (TCM Fest Salute #2)
I know from all too personal experience that creating a new cocktail is a lot easier than crafting a compelling film story. Yet, they’re not entirely dissimilar in that sometimes you need one final...
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Drink of the Week: The Countess Tracy (TCM Fest Salute #3)
If you head over to Bullz-Eye’s James Bond Fan Hub, you may notice that the writer behind the painfully in-depth explorations of the Sean Connery 007 films is the same guy bringing you these beverage...
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Drink of the Week: The Reign of Terror (TCM Fest Salute #4)
If there’s something that unites film geeks and cocktail enthusiasts, it’s an interest in the aged and the obscure. Yes, a lot of lost old movies and cocktails were lost for a good reason — not...
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Drink of the Week: The Grandstand Julep
The first week in May is always a dilemma in the making here at Drink of the Week Plaza as it actually pits two of the year’s biggest drinking excuses holidays against each other. Since tomorrow is...
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Drink of the Week: The Spicy Cerveza Cocktail
I’m sure that many will never forgive my decision last week to favor Derby Day over Cinco de Mayo which, alas and alack, passed us by last Tuesday. Still, this week I have been gifted by the PR gods of...
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Drink of the Week: The Liberal
The Liberal’s history goes back to before the turn of the 20th century, which means it’s probably dangerous to make any strong connections with modern day political affiliations, especially since this...
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Drink of the Week: The Fin de Siècle
“Fin de siècle” is French for “end of the century, which means that we’ve all missed our opportunity by 15 years to have a Fin de Siècle at the most appropriate point possible, assuming we were old...
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