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 [...]
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Feels Like the Very First Time
Posted in angostura bitters, Bitters, Bourbon, Bourbon Belle, brandy, Cocktails, Cointreau, French Vermouth, Gin, gincident, Grenadine, Hanky Panky, lemon juice, Mixology Monday, Pink Gin, Pink Lady, Pinky Gonzales, Plymouth gin, Rye, Scoff Law, Uncategorized, Vermouth, Whiskey, tagged Mixology Monday on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Are We Downhearted?”
Posted in Atta Boy Cocktail, Broads, Elsie Janis, French Vermouth, Gin, Grenadine on November 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As you well know, LUPEC will celebrate lady veterans of all stripes at the LUPEC Boston “USO Show” on November 21, a 1940s themed cocktail party and retro-variety show. Before the USO even existed, there was trailblazing entertainer Elsie Janis “the sweetheart of the A.E.F.”, for whom we raise a in this week’s Dig column. [...]
Kingsley Amis Back in Print
Posted in brandy, cucumber juice, French Vermouth, Gin, hard cider, Kingsley Amis, sherry, white wine on October 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
by Pink Gin The thing that we at LUPEC Boston have to love about Kingsley Amis is that he wrote a regular drinks column just like we do. His compilation of his articles are included in Everyday Drinking, published anew this year. We saw it on the shelves at Porter Square Books. Older books are [...]
The Endangered Cocktail of the Month: The Scoff Law
Posted in Broads, Chartreuse, Cocktails, Endangered Cocktail of the Month, French Vermouth, Green Chartreuse, Grenadine, lemon juice, Scoff Law on September 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Welcome to the Endangered Cocktail of the Month, a new feature on the LUPEC Boston online home. To help us achieve our goals of “breeding, raising, and releasing nearly extinct drinks into the wild”, LUPEC Boston will select a new classic cocktail to revive at local bars and restaurants each month. We’ll write about the [...]
Some classy cocktails to get the party started this summer…
Posted in angostura bitters, French Vermouth, Italian Vermouth, Orange Bitters, Orange Juice, sloe gin, Southern comfort on July 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Get your hands on a bottle of sloe gin, turn up Rumors by Fleetwood Mac, and let the games begin! SLOE COMFORTABLE SCREW from Dale DeGroff’s Craft of the Cocktail 1 oz sloe gin 1 oz Southern Comfort 4 oz fresh orange juice Orange slice for garnish This drink has sloe gin, southern comfort, and [...]
Oh When the Saints…
Posted in French Vermouth, Herbsaint, Italian Vermouth, New Orleans, Tales of the Cocktail on July 3, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The ladies of LUPEC Boston are gearing up for our annual excursion to New Orleans for Tales of the Cocktail. For five days we will be learning about everything from Shochu to sensory perception. And for five nights we will be eating, drinking and dancing at our favorite haunts. Sounds like something real close to [...]
The Green Hour
Posted in Absinthe, Benedictine, Chrysanthemum Cocktail, Cointreau, Corpse Reviver (No. 2), Fascinator Cocktail, French Vermouth, Gin, Kubler, lemon juice, Lillet, Lucid 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 do you [...]
Gin & Vermouth — Two Tickets to Paradise
Posted in French Vermouth, Gin, gincident, Italian Vermouth, Weekly Dig on May 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
by Pink Lady The LUPEC Boston column in this week’s issue of the Weekly Dig stars two spirits that have become less and less vogue in the age of the extra extra dry, extra extra dirty vodka martini: gin and vermouth. I will save discussion of the “original” martini recipe (and modern bastardizations thereof) for [...]
Nina Simone: The High Priestess of Song
Posted in French Vermouth, Gin, Italian Vermouth, Nina Simone, Orange Juice on February 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
by MiMi Protest singer, jazz vocalist, pianist, temperamental diva and American civil rights heroine, Nina Simone remains one of the most important musicians in American music history. Born Eunice Kathleen Waymon on February 21 in 1933, Simone started playing the piano at the age of four, and made her concert debut when she was just [...]
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