by Brian | Mar 30, 2017 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes, Uncategorized
With all the cocktail books that have appeared, we finally see many cocktails secrets in the spotlight. Authors are telling us those special things that mixologists, for generations, have done to fashion exceptional cocktails — ones that we have been unable to...
by Brian | Mar 14, 2017 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes, Uncategorized
Yesterday I reviewed a wonderfully brilliant cocktail book, Wild Cocktails by Lottie Muir. The concept of this book is simple: go outdoors, into your garden or the forest, pick some elements of nature, and use them at home to make components: flavored liquors,...
by Brian | Mar 12, 2017 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes, Uncategorized
Tired from a weekend of skiing or cleanup or kids activities? Want to just curl up and relax with something exceptional in your mug? If you like maple syrup and nuts and bourbon and hot chocolate, you can combine them all here in one “not simple”...
by Brian | Mar 2, 2017 | Cocktails, Dedicated Drinker's Diary, TBT, Uncategorized
I posted this cocktail a year ago. My wife Suzi loves bourbon and hates ginger. I wondered how this combo would work for her: could bourbon beat out the ginger? When she took her first sip, Suzi closed her eyes, and then smiled. “This is really good,” she...
by Brian | Nov 26, 2016 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
Ordinarily, you can tell if I have made a recipe here or am just supplying you with an exciting one from a cookbook. I can’t actually test and taste everything, so sometimes you are going to be the one enjoying that first taste. You can tell which scenario...
by Brian | Nov 22, 2016 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
I just reviewed a new cocktail book, Drink Me Now. Here’s the review. And here’s my favorite drink in the book: Mexican Marshmallow Mocha. It appears in a chapter called Sweet Fix. What more needs to be said? Here cocoa powder and Kahlua and coffee are...
