The Cocktail Vibe at Mr. Booze

Met a great new contact a couple nights back. Got me thinking that we need to start a new series of posts called Mr. Booze Recommends. So consider this the first. The Hour is located in Old Towne, Alexandria, VA. If you’re in the neighborhood you owe it to yourself to stop by. And if [...]

As we scratch, pant and paw our ways into the dog days of summer, I slowly turn my head away from the rich rum tiki concoctions so satisfying in the warm months’ beginnings, to drinks that take just a little bit of juicing pre-prep and you’re mostly done. Once the limes are squeezed or the [...]

I’ve yet to find a ginger-beer cocktail that I don’t like. There’s just something about the snap and spice you get with the ginger that elevates a drink into the land of yum. Usually, I’ll recommend that ginger-beer drinks are best served in the colder months, from say September through January, on account of that [...]

You can serve this one as a straight-up cocktail or over rocks in an old-fashioned glass. I prefer it strained into a chilled martini glass. This is just one of those cool little finds that is extremely refreshing, potent, and fun for the senses. The mint sprig garnish, floating, suspended in this beautiful cocktail adds [...]

Stay with me here. This is a milk-based cocktail that may require a bit of bravado to try…but I promise, if you have the chops, you’ll love it. This is a great brunch cocktail and is quite popular in the great state of Texas. A great drink for any season besides summer (who drinks milk [...]

Tequila’s a tough one in terms of cocktails. I’m learning to appreciate its many nuances as a sipping liquor, its wonderful complexity, and the more-than-subtle differences between distillers. But as far as remarkable cocktails out there, I find only a few and far between when tequila’s involved. Well, that’s slowly changing, and the Time Out [...]

Ahhhh, the good old days. Here’s a pretty simple spring & summer refresher that uses bottled lime juice as its sweetener. I actually like Roses juices and completely get why they were so popular during the 1960’s. People knew how to squeeze fresh fruit juices back then, but the almost artificial tang poured from a [...]

On May 1st, 2010, know what you’re doing behind the bar. Beyond cliché’, I truly feel that having a Mint Julep and watching the Kentucky Derby is one of life’s affordable luxuries that you’d be foolish not to partake in. With such a minimum of effort, you can entertain in the home and, depending on [...]

Sometimes, even Mr. Booze is late to the party and boy, was I late to this one. I’ve only very recently been turned on to this absolute classic, and I wanted to rush it to your attention in time for spring. Champagne, as an addition, makes most cocktails ideal for a late spring brunch or [...]

This delicious drink is made with an easy-to-find sugar cane based spirit, Cachaca, that unlike rum, which is made from cane molasses & pulps, is made from pure cane juice. I usually find Brazilian Cachaca in the rum section of my local liquor store. This is a very powerful cocktail and easy to drink which [...]

Picked this on up in the July/August issue of Imbibe magazine and mixed one. I liked what I tasted and searched my old bar bibles to see if I could read more about it. I turned up a recipe online calling for greater quantities of the lemon juice and Benedictine (the Imbibe recipe called for [...]