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SideBlog: More Beer Opening Amazingness

Doug — Mon, 06 May 2013 23:24:33 +0000

IF you didn’t like the piece below on manly beer opening… How about a beer bottle opener that pops open a whole case at one time? It is not on the same plane of manliness, but it’s right there in dudeliness.

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SideBlog: The Manliest Bottle Opener Ever

Doug — Mon, 06 May 2013 14:19:28 +0000

The manliest beer bottle opener in the history of time. No really, guys, this dude makes girlies of us all. You too, Chuck Norris. (Video)

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In Other News, Robert De Niro Has But the Most Tangential Acquaintance With What the F**k a Martini Is

Doug — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:49:42 +0000

Robert De Niro has only the most tangential acquaintance with what the F**k a Martini actually is….

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How to Tell Spring is Really Here

Doug — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:37:23 +0000

It is Spring, and I have fresh mint once again. Only one thing to do!

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SideBlog: The Pegu as Transitional Cocktail

Doug — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:01:40 +0000

The Pegu is a great way to aid the transition from wintertime dark liquor to a Summer of gin. The Hemingway Daiquiri is a worthy one, too.

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Jacob Grier Invites Us to Up Our Bartending Game.

Doug — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:42:06 +0000

One of my favorite bartenders has a great suggestion today for how we can all up our cocktail game!

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SideBlog: The Bartender Singularity Somehow Already in the Rococo Phase

Doug — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 22:29:36 +0000

Somehow, the impending bartender singularity is already in its rococo phase. Because I certainly want my Manhattan brutally shaken and then dispensed through a series of cherub penises….

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Taking “The Flask” for a Testdrive

Doug — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:18:38 +0000

The Flask. Because everybody needs a whisky flask you can run over, drag, drop from great heights, and hand to naked models.

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SideBlog: The Timeline of Cocktail History

Doug — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:39:17 +0000

The timeline of cocktail history. Starts with the Fish House Punch in 1732. But why end with the Coctel Algeria in 1960? (From WorldClass)

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The Real Pegu Club… and How to Pronounce It

Doug — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:48:06 +0000

This what the mighty, historic, cocktailian-significant Pegu Club in Rangoon looks like today. And in the second half of the post, a discussion on how to pronounce correctly the word Pegu.

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Aloha Y’all

Doug — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:36:11 +0000

Aloha, y’all….

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SideBlog: Ultra Modern Tiki Torches

Doug — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:19:38 +0000

Tiki torches for the modern ultra-contemporary home (Video). If you have to blend your primitive with the modern in your Tiki decor as I do, these might make an excellent merge point.

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SideBlog: Tiare Keeps Up Her End of Tiki Month Til the Finish—2070 Swizzle

Doug — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 22:39:39 +0000

Tiare is keeping up her end of Tiki Month until the finish. Here’s the last of her three new mugs, containing a 2070 Swizzle, created by Martin Cate.

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Extracting the Inversions for Tiki Month

Doug — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:29:23 +0000

There were a whole bunch of Tiki drinks in this month’s Mixology Monday, and since I can’t do a post on each in the time I have left, I’ll just do a mini roundup with a roundup.

Tiki Drink: Captain’s Blood

Doug — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 01:38:08 +0000

The Captain’s Blood, a Tiki, or at least Tiki Compliant cocktail to examine as we wind down Tiki Month.

A Recipe for a Punch

Doug — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:30:36 +0000

A punch recipe. A quite serviceable punch recipe.

“Tiki Compliant”

Doug — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:24:20 +0000

Here’s a class of cocktail to consider: The Tiki Compliant drink. These are clearly non-Tiki libations that nevertheless fit right in to an evening’s faux-Polynesian drinking.
Warning: There is a huge digression in the middle of this post that is guaranteed to piss off a lot of you.

A Tiki Original From CocktailChem: Suit, Tie, and Lei

Doug — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 23:18:55 +0000

The Suit, Tie, and Lei is a Tiki Month original creation from Chemistry of the Cocktail. Nothing about this drink says Tiki… except the result.

A Tiki Month Original: The Aku-Kapo Cooler from Basic Civilization

Doug — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:30:35 +0000

The Aku-Kapo Cooler, an original Tiki drink invented for Tiki Month be Joe Garcia of Basic Civilization.

SideBlog: A Pill to Instantly Sober You Up Is closer to Reality

Doug — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:13:58 +0000

A pill to instantly sober you up is getting closer to reality. If it weren’t Tiki Month, I’d have a long post on how and in what ways this would be both great and terrible.