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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 Banana Cow is February 20th Drink of the Day!!

February 20, 2013 | By | Add a Comment

Who says you have to have a frozen drink to enjoy a nice and tropical rum cocktail! Move over daiquiris and coladas, here’s a cream drink that will put you in the place you want to be. Rum and banana together make a great combination. Add the cream and grenadine and you have yourself a […]

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The South Pole Cocktail is December 14th Drink of the Day!!

December 13, 2012 | By | Add a Comment

In 1911, a Norwegian five-man expedition led by Roald Amundsen, would reach the South Pole on this day. They would become the first people to set foot on the South Pole, beating out a British Expedition led by Robert F. Scott and his five man crew by five weeks. The other four in Amundsen’s party were […]

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The Zappa Cocktail is December 4th Drink of the Day!!

December 4, 2012 | By | Add a Comment

When I think of Frank Zappa, I think of this party I was at when I was in my early twenties. I went to the bathroom and closed the door, and staring at me was Frank Zappa sitting on the john. This is still one of my favorite posters of all time. It also summerizes […]

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The Bronx Cocktail is November 26th Drink of the Day!!

November 26, 2012 | By | Add a Comment

Another one of those days where I wanted to give you a little history on a pre-Prohibition drink. Legend has it that this cocktail wasn’t even invented in New York City, but Philadelphia. It was discovered by Bronx restauranteur Joseph Sormani while visiting the City of Brotherly Love in 1905. He would bring it back […]

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The American Revolution Cocktail is October 19th Drink of the Day!!

October 19, 2012 | By | Add a Comment

The beginning of the end was near. Britain would take one final last stand in Yorktown, Virginia. With British General Cornwallis on command, and his wartime manuevers legandary, there seemed no doubt the British would get the upper hand again in the War against the New World Order. However, it wasn’t meant to be. George […]

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The Magna Carta is June 15th Drink of the Day!!

June 14, 2012 | By | Add a Comment

After two unsuccessful wars in France and the hatred of most of the Barons in England, King John had no other choice. The Magna Carta needed to be written. In 1215, in a meadow called Ronimed, between Windsor and Staines, England, he sealed this document that states that no “freeman” could be punished except through […]

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The Manhattan is April 5th Drink of the Day!!

April 5, 2012 | By | Add a Comment

Yes, not too often I put a drink on here you are familiar with by name. However, this is one of my favorite history stories on drinks and I felt obligated to share it. And when Mr. Churchill’s name came up in history, I felt it unjust not to tell it. Funny that everytime I […]

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