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Creepy Halloween Cocktail

Hosting or heading to a Halloween party this weekend?  Whip-up a Halloween cocktail favorite – the brain hemorrhage.  This scary shot is sure to be a hit at your party! A popular brain hemorrhage shot recipe calls for peach schnapps, Irish … Continue reading

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Chocolate Toddy Martini

This morning, it all started with @scicurious tweeting her lastest @sciamblogs post ‘Is city living driving you crazy?’.  I retweeted this great post, along with the smart-ass comment “No. My city’s steady stream of coffee & cocktails soothes me :D”.   After … Continue reading

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Carkeek Cocktail

Being the Drunken Scientist that I am, while hiking around Carkeek Park I thought of a cocktail recipe.  It all started with a snack of blackberries, which were conveniently trail-side and ripe for the picking.  Enjoying these delicious berries got … Continue reading

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Summer Sangria

Back in April, the Spring Fling was offered up as a warmer weather cocktail.  The even warmer weather of June, and the summer party season, means it is time to scale-up production.  A lovely, fruity and cool pitcher of sangria … Continue reading

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Spring Fling

Warmer weather means cooler clothing and spring flings – the iced cocktail, that is.  @absolutvodka_us offers up this recipe for a Spring Fling cocktail featuring tequila, while  @dotw does it with gin.  I ditch the hard stuff for a lighter Spring Fling, based … Continue reading

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Our favorite cocktails

“If you were to ask me if I’d ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I’d have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.” ~ Luis Buñuel d e Dark and Stormy @eclecticechoes … Continue reading

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My letter in support of the Wisconsin 14

Send you letters of support to the Wisconsin 14 here. Dear Wisconsin 14, Thanks for standing up for your constituents and standing against bad laws and bad politics. I am a scientist and we have no union, no support. I … Continue reading

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Liqueur love

I confess!  I am madly in love with liqueurs. Coffee, chocolate, berry, cinnamon…I love each one.  Over a year ago, after stumbling upon this cranberry liqueur recipe, I realized one important thing.  Liqueurs are ridiculously easy to make!  There is … Continue reading

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QBCBC 20: Genny Light

The Quest for the Best Cheap Beer in a Can continues, episode 20: Genny Light. The QBCBC archive is here. Ahh, cheap beers in a can minus the calories! What could be better? How about if its actually palatable and has … Continue reading

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QBCBC 11: Steel Reserve 211 (8.1%)

The Quest for the Best Cheap Beer in a Can continues, episode 11: Steel Reserve 211 High Gravity Beer (the 8.1% version) So in the last episode of QBCBC, I reviewed the 6.0% version of Steel Reserve 211. I concluded … Continue reading

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