News — cocktails

  Party Like a Cephalopod! "Beware the Alumni, for they have squids in their heads" is a phrase you'll hear if you hang around me long enough.  (I'll explain some other time).  Well, the squid in the head of my friend Mr. Kleef is fond of math. And rum.  And he wanted to throw a party for all his friends who bought the Horror In Clay.  Logistically, there were a few things to consider: How to scale the recipe for the signature cocktail up to monster-sized?     How to tell one mug from another?   We decided to share...

I recently had the pleasure of introducing one of our customers, a lifetime horror fan, to tropical mixed drinks.  He wanted to know where to start.   This was my advice, presented here with footnotes:   The first Beachbum Berry book (the Grog Log) is what got me started on historic mixology, because we wanted tropical drinks for our wedding.  It is a fun damn hobby.  We often have a buncha folks bring parts of a new or favorite recipe and have an evening of it (like having folks over for original Pat O'Brian recipe Hurricanes for Fat Tuesday *1).     So, first thing if you...