Good morning and Happy Friday. I feel like the dog in the "This is fine" meme  while the entire room is on fire. We're in the middle of the second stretch of 4 days of temperatures above 95 degrees in the last 2 weeks. Don't get me wrong, I like summer.

To quote the beginning of Monty Python and the Holy Grail: The credits have been completed in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute. The credits being this post due to a last minute run down to FOB: Cape Cod to fix some lights in the back yard for

Don't you just love a challenge? I do (occasionally), especially when it comes to making cocktails. That's where I found myself this week, after bringing back a lovely souvenir from the DFOCon in Baltimore. At Harry's bar (which was also a liquor store - how convenient!) I noticed a vodka

Happy Friday once again! It's been fuck hot up in the Northeast lately, which means my cocktail/drinking has been limited to my usual Summer go to-s: gin & tonics, vodka seltzers, and radlers/shandy style beers. Though this week's research led me to another tropical style cocktail called the Bird of

Happy middle of summer Friday. I'm still getting slowly unpacked and recovered from the last week at the beach, so I wasn't in the mood for something overly complicated to make and write about this week. I happened to remember I had some Aperol in the bar still, and saving the

Happy Friday one and all. I promise after this week I'll finally put the Chartreuse away for a little while. However this one has been on the backlog for a while. Mainly because it involves open flame. Who doesn't like their booze with a little bit of fire? This is the

Happy Friday once again! This Friday is somewhat special since it is "World Gin Day" eve. Did you know that was a thing? I certainly didn't. I think that means I need to make and review a gin based drink right? I originally was going to make the Last Word