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It's holiday time, and that means everyone is trying to make sweet, sweet cocktails to dull the pain of old family wounds.  Or to enjoy friends and the gatherings with which the season is rife.  Or, of course, to celebrate the solstice and the return of the Old Ones. Regardless, red is a color of the seasons, and the quickest way to sweeten up and make festive a plain old cocktail is Grenadine.  Sweet, syrupy, and red. This is where people start to go horribly, HORRIBLY wrong.   That half full, stuck shut bottle of Rose's Grenadine you've had sitting...

Monster Mixology Monday: In the Court of the Dragon Serve in a Cthulhu Tiki mug 1/2oz Lemon Juice 1oz La Favorite Blanc Rhum 1oz Macchu Pisco .5oz Forres Park Puncheon Rum .25oz Green Chartreuse 1oz Fresh Pineapple 1oz Fresh Lime .5oz Passionfruit Syrup barspoon Allspice Dram *as served at Cane & Table. Photo & recipe by Nick Detrich.  Mug shown is Cthulhu Tiki mug by Horror In Clay.  

Monster Mixology Monday: Fiendishly Tropical Typhoon 2 Dashes Horror Infused Fiendishly Tropical Bitters 1/2oz Lemon Juice 1/2oz Grapefruit Juice 1/2oz Passion Fruit syrup 1/4oz Cinnamon syrup 1/4oz Don's Spices #2 (Recipe originally created with B.G. Reynolds) 2oz overproof dark rum (Recipe originally created with Lost Spirits Navy Style *as served at Tacoma Cabana. Photo & recipe by Jason Alexander.  Mug shown is A'A'PO'E from Hale Pale made by Munktiki.  

Jason Alexander is a craft bartender and rum fanatic in Tacoma, Washington, and a longtime fan of Horror In Clay.  He was recently selected to compete in the 2014 Iron TikiTender Competition at Tiki Kon in Portland, OR.  Jason won the competition, and his winning concoction happened to include Horror Infused: Fiendishly Tropical Bitters!  When he told me, I was floored!  Here is his winning recipe, and some info about the show!  I definitely hope to attend next year.Tiki Kon Leviathan(winning cocktail of the Iron TikiTender bartending competition at the 2014 Tiki Kon)2oz Don Q Gran Anejo (mandatory secret ingredient)1/2oz gin1/2oz...