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Earth Day: Pt 2

Posted in Cointreau, Vodka, lime juice on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

According to a recent Zagat Survey article, “Bostonians are very aware of the nutritional and environmental impacts of the food they eat… 78% of surveyors like their food to be locally grown or raised..”  — Zagat is referring to your entree, but it follows that we Bostonian/Cantabrigians appreciate environmentally-friendly cocktails as well. With that [...]

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Feels Like the Very First Time

Posted in Bitters, Bourbon, Bourbon Belle, Cocktails, Cointreau, French Vermouth, Gin, Grenadine, Hanky Panky, Mixology Monday, Pink Gin, Pink Lady, Pinky Gonzales, Plymouth gin, Rye, Scoff Law, Vermouth, Whiskey, angostura bitters, brandy, gincident, lemon juice, tagged on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

LUPEC Boston is honored to be hosting today’s Mixology Monday at our humble abode.  Inspired by a chance encounter that Pink Lady had with a cocktail novice, we’ve decided to consider those cocktails that would be suitably delicious for the first timer.
Obviously there are a couple things to consider when offering up advice to the [...]

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A Bubble Bath for Two

Posted in Bitters, Bourbon, Champagne, Cocktails, Cointreau, Peychaud's, Weekly Dig, angostura bitters on February 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and folks are clamoring for reservations at romantic locales all about town.  With the state of the economy and the big event falling on a Saturday many, however, may be choosing to spend the night at home.  That would be my choice as nothing is dearer to me than [...]

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One Nation, Under Cocktail

Posted in Bourbon, Broads, Champagne, Cocktails, Cointreau, President Madison's Favorite Whiskey Sours, Raspberry Shrub, Roman Punch, Rum, Whiskey, Women's History, brandy, daiquiri on November 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The 2008 election has come and gone, and wasn’t it enough to drive anyone to drink? In this week’s Dig column, we suggested whipping up a batch of Martha Washington’s Rum Punch to muddle through that post-election hangover. (You can read more about the punch here.) Here’s a list of some other Presidential favorites from [...]

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More fun and easy ways to create your own cocktail

Posted in Aperol, Belle de Brillet, Cinzano Rosso, Cointreau, Gin, lemon juice on July 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »

by Bourbon Belle
Wishing for a drink that you just haven’t been able to find at your beloved watering hole? Or dreaming about making the perfect cocktail to suit a specific taste? It’s surprisingly easy to concoct a well-balanced cocktail in the classic style, so long as you keep a few basic rules of thumb in [...]

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The Measure of Success

Posted in Amer Picon, Cointreau, Gin, Measuring, Orange Bitters, maraschino liqueur on June 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »

I never thought I would become attached to a kitchen tool. That is, until I met the Oxo angled measuring cup. The 2 oz measuring cup, shown on the right, allows one to accurately measure amounts as small as one quarter ounce. In addition to ounces, their are interior markings for tablespoons [...]

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The Green Hour

Posted in Absinthe, Benedictine, Chrysanthemum Cocktail, Cointreau, Corpse Reviver (No. 2), Fascinator Cocktail, French Vermouth, Gin, Kubler, Lillet, Lucid, lemon juice on May 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »

After 95 years of being a big no no, absinthe is once again legal in the United States. Here in Boston we are fortunate to have wonderful liquor retailers such as Brix and Downtown Wine and Spirits so finding the two available absinthes, Lucid and Kubler, is a simple enough task. But what [...]

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