The Spirit World

Tomorrow is Mixology Monday 11: Winter Warmers. It’s sponsored by the folks at Imbibe Magazine at their blog Imbibe Unfiltered.
Although I’ve talked about this drink before, it was nearly a year ago so I think it’s okay to repeat it. My entry takes me all the way back to my […]

Today’s Drinks Around the World column is going around the world - at least figuratively. Too bad it’s not literally!
The February 2007 issue of Wine and Spirits (which should really be Wine and Spirits since 99.5% of the coverage is on wine) lists some interesting options for your liquor cabinet.
The […]

[Editor’s note: We had a little ‘”wardrobe malfunction” with the measurements in our original recipe. So sorry! The recipe has been updated and corrected now. 12-Dec 11:30 pm]
Welcome to Mixology Monday! In this web-wide synergy of mixology, the chosen topic that several weblogs across the Internet are converging on is “Drinks […]

Editor’s Note: Mixology Mania has begun! This post and recipe comes to us from Thomas Becket a contributor to one of our sister blogs, Paper Palate. Thomas blames me for getting him involved in the Well Fed sites but I take no responsibility! However, Thomas does get “bonus points” as his recipe […]

As the story goes, brandy got its start through the attempted inventiveness of a Dutch trader. He wanted to ship wine back to Holland, but there were two different problems he was facing. First, was that wine didn’t necessarily travel well, the other was that those large casks of wine took up a lot of […]

Continuing with our Harvest theme we are going to visit a mixology book that we reviewed way back in January.
The book, Sharp Shooters, you may remember, is a collection of (mostly) layered shots. The layering brings some interesting color and flavor combinations to these little sips.
Today’s recipe is called the […]

We are going to stretch this idea of harvest just a bit, as the harvest for this specialty liqueur actually takes place in July. However, it’s a rather fascinating story and process and deserves to be included in harvest series.
The liqueur is found in the Alps of Austria, France, Italy, and Switzerland […]

Last week it was all apples, this week we are focusing on another fruit of the season, the beautiful pear! Lara has already provided you with the Pear Nectar Martini which would be a great choice for this weekend but here’s another alternative, the Pear Brandy Champagne Cocktail.
I first had this cocktail at one […]

With the coming of the fall weather our thoughts turn to those things that remind us of the season. Apples play a big role in these thoughts. For this weekend’s Happy Hour at Home we are going all apples!
We’ll start with our cocktail for the weekend - an Apple Manhattan. […]

By now you’ve no doubt come to realize that I’m a little fond of drinks that use some of the commonly found, but lesser known ingredients. In many cases, these are ingredients which were once extremely popular, but have sort of fallen by the wayside in favor of some new trendy (and heavily marketed) product […]