I’m still working on my full-fledged “cocktail geek” status, but I’m starting to get into making my own syrups. Nothing too crazy at the moment, but I’m working on it! The Mixoloseum has a fantastic guest post by Chris Stanley about where you can source all of the weird ingredients to make all sorts of funky syrups and fun tinctures.
Chris lists all of my usual haunts – farmer’s markets, ethnic grocery stores and alternative or whole foods markets. What Chris did list, that aren’t usual haunts for me, were several different sites around the wild wild interwebs that offer several …read more

There’s very little on my wish list for Christmas this year, a new tattoo (or contributions towards it!) would rock my world. That generally proves difficult to obtain however – the bigger ticket, non-tangible items, despite the fact that those are always the ones that are the most personal or the most appreciated.
In starting to build a list of actual tanglible gifts that someone can feel like they actually gave something comes the Fee Brother’s 6 pack of  hand selected cocktail bitters – West Indies Orange, Peach, Lemon, Grapefruit, Mint and Old Fashioned. These are unique and hard-to-find cocktail mixers.
Opened …read more