all things mixed up
Philosophically, there are two ways to think about the oxymoronic but generally attractive idea of a healthy cocktail. You can be conservative and go for something that attempts to minimize the harm — something like what General Jack D. Ripper drinks in Dr. Strangelove, a mixture of “grain alcohol and rainwater.” The other approach is to see that your drink supplements the C2H5OH (pure alcohol) with an array of other beneficial organic compounds. Who knew drinking cocktails could be so good for you?
This great chart will come in extremely handy whenever you have to calculate amounts of alcohol - it’s millilitres, oz and so on, check it out - great for every European barkeeper who’s not used to anglo-american measurements.
In Columbus, Ohio, McCormick & Schmick’s restaurant is testing a new list of historic cocktails ranging from the Basil Grape Smash to the Hemingway Daquiri and they are a rediscovered treasure. If you like to drink, this is killer.
Boyd Rice describes drinking in East Berlin in 1978.
Summer is almost here again, and here is another deliciously sweet vodka cocktail to wet your whistle and get the afternoon started right in this upcoming season. I also hear that this is the fav drink of Mark Shuttleworth.
Two ingredients… vodka & flavoring. When you desperately need a drink.
A man was sitting at a bar enjoying an after-work cocktail when an exceptionally gorgeous & sexy young woman entered…