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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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Raise a Roffignac to the Good City

Posted in New Orleans, Whiskey, cognac, highball on February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

By Pinky Gonzales
Of course it is the week of Fat Tuesday and Lent, and the good city of New Orleans is on our minds and so are it’s drinks. LUPEC Boston’s column in this week’s Dig is on the Roffignac cocktail, a kind of elegant, no-frills, tasty highball. Its exact story [...]

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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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Dispatches from the May meeting

Posted in Amer Picon, Cantina Bostonia, Harpoon Cider, Irish Coffee, Monday-Night Mug, Normandy, Orange Bitters, Pink Gin, St-Germain, Whiskey, angostura bitters, lemon juice 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 [...]

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Happy World Cocktail Week!

Posted in Herbsaint, Peychaud's, Sazerac, Whiskey, world cocktail day on May 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

by Pink Lady
Dear Boston Drinkers,
The ladies of LUPEC Boston would like to invite you all to raise a glass to our very favorite holiday week: World Cocktail Week.
The brainchild of the geniuses behind the Museum of the American Cocktail, World Cocktail Week was established to celebrate the rich history of the cocktail and recognize the [...]

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Hello, sucker!

Posted in Broads, Chartreuse, Grenadine, Mae West, Orange Bitters, Scoff Law, Texas Guinan, Vaudeville, Vermouth, Whiskey, Women's History, lemon juice on March 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »

by Pinky Gonzales
…This was the standard greeting you’d likely receive from the jovial, peroxide blonde manning the house at one of several Manhattan speakeasies during Prohibition. Of course, this would foreshadow the spending of all your dough, on illegal hooch and tips for the showgirls. You’d happily fork over $25 (back then no chump change) [...]

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World Cocktail Day!

Posted in Cocktail History, Cocktails, Whiskey on May 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Ah, the most refreshingly delicious day of the year! World Cocktail Day!
World Cocktail Day occurs annually on the day the Balance and Columbian Repository, a Hudson, New York newspaper, printed a wonderful exchange in which the editors defined the word cocktail. During the previous week, the loser of a political race had created [...]

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