Category: Cocktails

Improv Notebook – The Seattle Summer in May cocktail

The weather here in Seattle today was outstanding – May 1st and 80+ degrees. It seems like everybody’s out soaking…

The Incomplete Sentence – A new spin on the Last Word

The “Last Word” cocktail has a certain cachet among the cocktail cognoscenti. Originally a pre-prohibition era cocktail, it came back into mainstream awareness…

The importance of storytelling – Lost Spirits Navy Style Rum

I frequently make new and unusual cocktails for guests at my house. Something I’ve come to enjoy is telling a…

The curse of the oddball ingredient – A cocktail improvisation example

Almost anybody with more than a six pack of Bud in the fridge has acquired the oddball cocktail ingredient, used…