Cocktail Chronicles
An excellent blog by a man who has more cocktail books than I thought were published. 

cocktailnerd
Gabriel has crafted a fine site and shares some of my pain with a state-run liquor system.  He also manages to post about 4000 times more than me, and it’s always interesting! 

Dave’s Drinks
Anyone who posts about exotic cocktails makes it on this blogroll! 

Days That End In “Y”
An all-around drinking blog that posts quality news on the world of spirits, beer, wine, gadgets… the list goes on, as do the posts, which are too numerous to count. “ Updated frequently” would be an understatement. 

Dr. Bamboo
A fellow Pennsylvanian with a penchant for art and fine cocktails. 

Favorite Posts

Upcoming TDN – Oval Vodka

Vodka alone accounts for over 20% of spirits sales in the U.S. yet gets not play with the cocktail snobs.  Think you’re so cool only working with ingredients that taste like tree bark and gasoline?  How about mixology where you are in charge of all the flavors.  No chance to rest your ass with a delicious Gin.  No aged whiskey to do your work for you.  Want complex flavor?  It’s up to you captain.  Join us and Oval Vodka for this week’s TDN ( What’s Thursday Drink Night? ). 

Pisco Wrap-Up

Diego Loret de Mola joined us last Thursday in the Mixoloseum chat room to answer more than a handful of questions regarding the different types of pisco and its production.  He is knowledgeable on all things pisco and was a delight to have on hand.  Drinks were created late into the evening and the offering was gregariously varied – everything from Campari to Chartreuse found its way into the glass, though I think egg emerged as pisco’s best friend for the evening. 

A few of us had the pleasure of slinging cocktails live at Embury’s at the Fire House in Pittsburgh, PA.  Fred Sarkis was our bartender, and the perfect TDN host.  The venue was just right and some of the best drinks of the night came from his willing hands. ( This is not skewed by the fact that I didn’t have to make any of them, to be sure.) 

The winning cocktail of the evening was created by Blair Reynolds, tiki-freak and up-and-coming bartender.