Sharkbait’s Cocktail Of The Week: Meet Me at the Waldorf

Sharkbait - February 4, 2022February 4, 2022

Happy Friday one and all once again. This week I'm taking my cocktail inspiration from the fact I should be going to New York next week, but won't be. Allow me to explain. In a fit of misguided optimism, I bought tickets to the Rangers-Bruins game at Madison Square Garden on

Sharkbait’s Cocktail of the Week: Boat Drinks

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Sharkbait - January 28, 2022January 28, 2022

Happy Friday before Snowpocalypse 2022. My original plan for a theme this week was to utilize my Allspice dram and come up with a tropical type of drink since it has been fuck ass cold up here in the Northeast and a bit of pandemic cabin fever has me longing

Sharkbait’s Cocktail of the Week: The Royal Treatment

Sharkbait - January 21, 2022January 21, 2022

Happy Friday once again everyone. This week's cocktail selection is all about what is left in the bar. Unfortunately, I have not been able to do a proper re-supply since before the holidays. As a result, my supplies were running a bit thin. With Champagne leftover from last week, and

Sharkbait’s Cocktail of the Week: Long Weekend Getaways

Sharkbait - January 14, 2022January 14, 2022

Happy Friday, and what a needed (long) weekend it is. Mrs. Sharkbait and I decided to post up at FOB Cape Cod for the long weekend, since we each needed a break after the holidays. I was pleasantly surprised when we got here and I opened the liquor cabinet. It

Sharkbait’s Cocktail of the Week: Snowblind

Sharkbait - January 7, 2022January 6, 2022

Happy (snowy Northeast) Friday everyone. Following up on my absinthe experiment last week, I wanted to find a better use for my supply. Enter the classic Sazerac. Once I realized I had everything except the Peychaud's bitters, I decided to procure them for this week and finally make one of

Sharkbait’s Cocktail of the Week: Resolute Determination

Sharkbait - December 31, 2021December 31, 2021

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Well, we've made it. Week 52. Day 365. In a manner of hours, 2021 will be in the rear view mirror and I'm not exactly sad to see it go. Sure, it was better than the absolute dumpster fire 2020 was, but that bar was so low, worms were tripping

Sharkbait’s Cocktail of the Week: Use Your Noggin

Sharkbait - December 24, 2021December 24, 2021

Christmas weekend is finally upon us. Hopefully you've got all your shopping done, both for gifts and for food. Food especially since in my opinion, Christmas dinner is the dinner of the year, and it absolutely sucks to be missing a key ingredient for that and have to go on

Sharkbait’s Cocktail of the Week: Mister Heatmeiser

Sharkbait - December 17, 2021December 17, 2021

Happy mid December Friday everyone. Why the Heatmeiser title? This week we're making a drink that involves a little bit of spice! Granted, when I say a little bit, I do mean a little. The Little Bit Country from the Please Don't Tell cocktail book is made with a little

Sharkbait’s Cocktail of the Week: Tangible Gains

Sharkbait - December 10, 2021December 10, 2021

Hello and welcome to Friday! This week's drink features the most traditional of all Christmas liquors: tequila! I know, I know, but for real, tequila in my bar is criminally underused, outside of the standard margarita and I do want to start changing that. So, being the change I want to

Sharkbait’s Cocktail of the Week: Maximize the Leftovers

Sharkbait - December 3, 2021December 3, 2021

I apologize in advance of this week's column. I may be providing a drink that you probably won't be able to make until Christmas, assuming you don't keep any sort of cranberry sauce on hand at all times. To be fair I don't either and I made this the day after Thanksgiving

Sharkbait’s Cocktail of the Week: Throwing Haymakers

Sharkbait - November 24, 2021November 24, 2021

It's a special day before Thanksgiving edition of the Cocktail of the Week! As a service, I like to provide you fine readers with some ideas to serve at your own Thanksgiving celebrations. Or, for our Canadian friends, Thirsty Thursday celebrations. This week/year I'm providing a drink that should play

Sharkbait’s Cocktail of the Week: Joy to the World

Sharkbait - November 19, 2021November 19, 2021

Happy week before (American) Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is essentially the two minute warning of the year. Everything from here on out is garbage time of the year, where we're all waiting for the time off at the end of the year. This week I'm putting into use a new ingredient I picked