Archive for July, 2007

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The Clover Club Cocktail Recipe - Blog Love - Mixology Mondays XVII »

Do you sometimes dream about cocktails in your sleep? I did last night ….
Mixology Mondays: Hello and thanks for taking part in Mixology Mondays. The theme this month is “Blog Love” and this is dedicated to all the other cocktail blogs out there in the mixosphere. Today we’re going to talk about any drink of your [...]

Flair Bartending - Hit or Miss? »

What do you feel about flair bartending? The first time I experienced this was sometime last year at Bed Supperclub, Bangkok (those guys were really good I must admit) and more recently a few weeks ago at a bar in Baltimore. The bartender actually spilled more liquor on the floor than in the drinks he [...]

The Top 10 things customers do to annoy Bartenders »

1. Arguing with a bartender. Just don’t - this is one battle you won’t win. It’s quite possible that a bartender screwed up your cocktail and garnished that Gibson with a cherry. You might also know 10x as much as the bartender does about cocktails. I’ll share a secret with you, bartenders by nature have very big [...]

What is a Cocktail? »

Before we proceed any further with cocktail recipes, we feel it necessary that you know what a cocktail is and what a cocktail is not.
A dictionary definition of a cocktail is:

any of various short mixed drinks, consisting typically of gin, whiskey, rum, vodka, or brandy, with different admixtures, as vermouth, fruit juices, or flavorings, usually [...]

WIN TICKETS TO SEE FEMI KUTI @ 930 CLUB, WASH DC 07/13 »

In the 1970’s, a Nigerian musician named Fela Anikulapo-Kuti created Afrobeat - a fusion of West African highlife music with western jazz and funk music in a big band format with lots of horn players, singers and percussionists. Fela was also an outspoken critic of the rampant corruption in Nigeria, and paid for this dearly [...]