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 »
Veterans Day Cocktails
Posted in brandy, Broads, Cocktails, Eggs, lemon juice, sloe gin, Women's History on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The ladies of LUPEC Boston are thrilled to honor the hundreds of thousands of forebroads who’ve served this country as volunteers during times of war. We’ve written about the Hello Girls of World War I and the Clubmobile girls of World War II, and later this week we’ll talk about the entertainers who traveled to [...]
Sock it to ‘em!
Posted in Cocktails, Gum (Gomme) Syrup, lemon juice, Pisco, Pisco Punch, tagged Punch on October 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
by Hanky Panky In this week’s column in the Weekly Dig Pink Lady took us through the finer points of hosting for a cocktail crowd. Batching is a great way to alleviate stress and allow a host/ess to enjoy the party as much as their guests. Another way to accomplish this is by serving guests [...]
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 [...]
Reasons to Love Chartreuse
Posted in grapefruit juice, lemon juice, lime juice, Plymouth gin, simple syrup, St-Germain, Yellow Chartreuse on September 10, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Chartreuse is an enchanting liqueur if there ever was one. As we covered in this week’s Dig, the Chartreuse we drink today is based on a recipe for an “Elixir of Long Life” that was handed down to the Order of Carthusian monks in the 17th century. Reputed since their founding in 1084 as the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dispatches from the May meeting
Posted in Amer Picon, angostura bitters, Cantina Bostonia, Harpoon Cider, Irish Coffee, lemon juice, Monday-Night Mug, Normandy, Orange Bitters, Pink Gin, St-Germain, Whiskey on May 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
by Pink Gin The theme of the May LUPEC Boston meeting was Travel. We live in an amazing time when women have status and choices and when travel is cheap and easy. The ladies of LUPEC Boston celebrated the convergence of these ‘movements’ with food, drink, conversation, and authentic costumes from around the world. Featured [...]
The Pink Lady Cocktail
Posted in Applejack, column, Eggs, Gin, Grenadine, lemon juice, Pink Lady, Weekly Dig on May 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
by Pink Lady Hopefully you all caught the debut of the LUPEC Boston column in this week’s issue of The Weekly Dig. As promised, here’s a little more info on our favorite recipe for the Pink Lady, and a few notes on why I thought it an appropriate choice as the very first cocktail for [...]
A toast to those who can run 26.2 miles
Posted in Aviation, Boston broads, Gin, lemon juice, maraschino liqueur on April 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
In two and a half weeks, 1,250 runners of the Boston Marathon will raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for charity. Let’s support these athletic, ambitious ladies! Casey is one woman who will be running, in honor of her grandmother, to improve the lives of those affected by Alzheimer’s and promote research and effective treatments. [...]


