The First Assembly of Cascadians is Called to Order

Are you from the Pacific Northwest? Are you currently in New Orleans? Here are your orders.

I ♥ Anvil

The Four Barmen of the Apocalypse

Last year's Tales of the Cocktail was a momentous occasion for a variety of reasons, but especially so for many of your favorite booze bloggers. In a rented house on North Rampart Street, just a few doors down from Bar Tonique, we of the newly formed Cocktail and Spirits Online Writers Group had taken it upon ourselves to assemble the finest bar in New Orleans. We had more homemade ingredients and rare bottles of booze than has likely ever been assembled, and it all poured freely---if you were invited in. Welcome to the Mixo House.

Four Stars

A couple weeks ago, the theme ingredient for Thursday Drink Night was Kahlúa, and I'll be frank: I was not excited about this. I am not a Kahlúa fan. The cloying sweetness conjures images of sticky frat bathrooms and sexual regret. However, knowing that even the lowly Jägermeister has its occasional uses, I convinced myself to try coming up with something that wouldn't result in tearful toilet hugging...

Drinking Clarity

One of the (many) awesome things about being a complete bastard is that you don't have to do the things people want you to do. Things like, say, update you website on a regular basis. If a person comes up to you and says something along the lines of, "Post some new content" or "Please stop drinking my mezcal straight from the bottle" you just yell, "Fuck you! Get your own blog and/or mezcal!" and then happily go on about you business...