My only request for Kat’s beer run was to include “some interesting boozy thing in a can”.  Along with a cold tall boy of Mythos and one of Fix Hellas, she came back with this beauty. “OriGINal Long Drink”: Gin-Grapefruit drink.  Contains the following:  water, sugar, gin, carbon dioxide, acid, flavours, stabilizer, safflower and lemon […]

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The sight must have been incredible. A whir of flashing metal cocktail shakers streaked the bar from end to end as the crowd crushed in around you. There they stood.  Thirty-five “shaker boys” all earnestly focusing as their arms screamed from the pain of ceaseless shaking. It is said that to properly make a Ramos […]

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As the Gulf Coast wakes up to another morning of promises from their good friend, BP, the world waits to see if their latest containment cap scheme will finally stop the gushing oil. After 83 days of being pounded by black crude, the Louisiana Bayou has been sent through the ringer.  Add to that, the […]

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There was a time when pilots were heroes and the nation was fascinated by their exploits in the sky. Captain Sully Sullenberger aside (you are a prince among men, sir), we’ve moved into a new realm of hero.  Like Justin Bieber, for instance–I mean, like, wow, how does he get those bangs so perfect?  But […]

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Originally created in Florence at the Baglioni Hotel in the 1920’s, the Negroni was the regular drink of a bar customer named Camillo Negroni. Italians are nuts about bitters and Camillo couldn’t get enough of the mouth-watering sensation of Campari.  So much so, that his name lives on in bars around the world. Campari is […]

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