Tag: dark rum drinks

The Midnight Express is April 5th Drink of the Day!!

April 5, 2013 | By | Add a Comment

Sometimes, you want to enjoy a cocktail that has a majority of the flavor coming from the liquor itself. If you enjoy a good dark rum on occasion, as I do, it’s better to have one on the rocks with a squeeze of lime. Why taint it with anything else, in my opinion? Alas, I […]

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The Monet Carribean Frost Cocktail

November 14, 2012 | By | Add a Comment

Claude Monet was a pioneer as a painter, starting a movement that would be called French Impressionism, named after one of his pieces of work, Impression Sunrise. Monet found a way to paint light reflections using quick, short, and effective strokes that seemed to give the true look of how light reflects in some areas […]

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The Stock Market Crash Cocktail is October 27th Drink of the Day!!

October 27, 2012 | By | Add a Comment

Everyone should have known that this was going to happen one day. After eight years of positives in the technical markets, home pricing going up double digits, and unemployment so low that people would do a double-take on the numbers, the sign of the inevitable showed us its ugly head for the first time in […]

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The Incandescent Punch is October 21st Drink of the Day!!

October 21, 2012 | By | Add a Comment

Thomas Edison brought a lot of new things to light for us (pun intended), but the one the most can say shines through the most is inventing a working model of the incandescent light bulb. On this date, in 1879, after many attempts to come up with a working model that wouldn’t burn out too […]

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The Ramones Cocktail is July 15th Drink of the Day!!

July 15, 2012 | By | Add a Comment

If you lived in the seventies and eighties, you remember the glam rock movement and the punk rock scene. In my view, this was a great time to be alive, enjoying music that you couldn’t help but bop your head to. New York City is considered by many to be the birthplace of punk rock, […]

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The Roman Rasta Coffee is July 13th Drink of the Day!!

July 13, 2012 | By | Add a Comment

On this day, way back in 100 B.C., the most common name of Roman Dictatorship was brought onto this world. Julius Caesar was born on this date. It is believed he was the major influence in the gradual change from the old Roman Republic to what would become the Roman Empire. To celebrate his day […]

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The MacArthur Cocktail is April 11th Drink of the Day!!

April 11, 2012 | By | Add a Comment

On this day, in 1951, while the Truman Administration was going through UN peace talks with Korea and China, General MacArthur felt it would be of better interest for the US to stretch the fighting into China from Korea. In fact, MacArthur sent out a message to his troops that went against the policies set […]

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