I’m sorry but sometimes I think my blog is a bit much. I have poked around the internet a bit at this point, and there are quite a few blogs about making drinks. I like mine, EE made it very pretty as she has so many things in my life, but frankly I’m hard pressed [...]

I don’t usually review specific liquors, because I really don’t want to get into all the minutiae about the merits of cold distilling, charred barrels, or whether the sun was shining when the grapes were picked.  There’s value in being thorough, but in this forum, Tessin endeavors to deliver the bottom line on what’s important [...]

I have taken mixology somewhere it has never been.  Luckily, mixology will survive. EE was making dinner last weekend, her first Sunday chili of the colder months, and I was puttering around in my mixology cabinet, trying to create a chili-friendly cocktail.  EE had left some New York sharp cheddar cheese on the counter cut [...]

“Hey, come out, a bunch of us are having a drink.” “XYZ Class HAPPY HOUR! DIVE BAR near you!” “There’s gotta be a bar somewhere near that subway stop, wait for me there.” Any of the above can easily lead to a dive bar. I’m using the dive designation broadly to encompass anywhere that: has [...]

I’ve gotten requests to help others start their home Mixology Stations, and that is just what this post will attempt to do.  Luckily I’ve been asked to opine on this topic previously and another time the in-laws asked what was needed for a fun Christmas.  The answer was about the same… Rude interruption from the readership rabble: [...]