Happy Hate Week Friday everyone. Before I get into this week's cocktail, I felt compelled to add a little alcohol related hate going into the weekend. In a shock to absolutely nobody, Puritan founded Massachusetts has stupid rules when it comes to alcohol: You want a happy hour? You can go
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Sharkbait’s Cocktail of the Week: The As Yet To Be Named Cocktail
Hello, and happy Friday once again. For this week's drink, I felt like trying my hand at something new. With some success already with the pre-thanksgiving day cocktail, and the addition of a hot ginger lime syrup I received for Christmas, I decided to concoct my own original drink. What
Sharkbait’s Cocktail of the Week: Bourble
Hello, welcome back, and happy Friday fellow degenerates. If you hang around this crew for an extended period of time (especially during the playoffs) you'll see mentions of having bourble, or "being in bourble" Now you may think that that is slang for straight bourbon and being in trouble from
Sharkbait’s Cocktail of the Week: The Newark. EWR or EWW?
Hello and welcome back cocktail enthusiasts. We've all had, or at least heard of drinks names after cities right? The Manhattan, The Bronx, Long Island Iced Tea. I'm detecting a bit of a theme with the locations cited here. We're going to try a drink this week named after another
Sharkbait’s Cocktail of the Week: Not So Dry January
Happy 2020 drinkers! I'm sure the majority of you are holding onto the last vestiges of your holiday breaks from various jobs. Let's easy back into reality with a nice sherry based cocktail shall we? Once again, we're consulting Meehan's Bartender Manual. Meehan has a recipe for a very simple
Sharkbait’s Cocktail of the Week: Keep It Simple
Happy mid-holiday Friday everyone. I trust your holiday is/was a good one. Mine was pretty good, and I did get a new cocktail book to play with: Meehan's Bartender Manual by Jim Meehan. Meehan is a name that should be familiar, as I've made drinks from his PDT cocktail book
Sharkbait’s Cocktail of the Week: Get Cracking!
Happy Friday before Christmas, Hanukkah, Festivus, & Kwanzaa. Sticking with the seasonal beverage theme we've been on since last week, I decided to kick it up a notch and do some homemade eggnog! The New York Times has a recipe for butterscotch scotch eggnog that I've been dying to try
Sharkbait’s Cocktail of the Week: Buttering Up
Hello and happy Friday once again. We're smack dab in the middle of the holidays. I've decided to channel the season and make a hard to find but yet seasonally appropriate beverage: Hot Buttered Rum. This is a drink I've heard about numerous times, but never actually looked into making
Sharkbait’s Cocktail of the Week: Getting Fancy
Hello, and happy Friday once again. Hopefully you all survived your Thanksgiving (or for our Canadian friends, another boring Thursday). Now we are officially into the holiday season. This time of year usually means a lot of get-togethers. Usually these kinds of events (family commitments, office parties, friends holiday parties
Sharkbait’s Cocktail of the Week: Thanksgiving Survival Guide
Happy day before Thanksgiving! I suspect that most of you have some sense of existential dread right about now. Is it because you're A) Still at work? B) Still at work knowing that you need to do some traveling during rush hour on the busiest travel day of the year?