The Clover Club Cocktail

The Clover Club Cocktail

by | Apr 18, 2021 | Cocktail Stories

  While real men may not eat quiche, they certainly do drink the Clover Club cocktail. (Really only the later part of that sentence is true… real men eat anything they damn well please.) This drink, like the Old Fashioned is shrouded in pre-Prohibition era lore,...
Autumn Leaves

Autumn Leaves

by | Dec 3, 2020 | Cocktail Stories

For Thanksgiving, I was searching for a new and different cocktail; one that would… fall in step with the season. See what I did there? Don’t worry; I didn’t hurt myself too badly coming up with that one. Thanks to The Spruce Eats for turning me on to Pisco...
Negroni

Negroni

by | Dec 1, 2020 | Cocktail Stories

I had my first Negroni cocktail in Asheville NC while visiting our son and daughter-in-law early this Fall. We waited until the leaves were in their peak color and the morning air was filled with the crisp promise of winter. When I think of Asheville, the first thing...
Old Fashioned

Old Fashioned

by | Sep 14, 2020 | Cocktail Stories

The name is for the drink, not the drinker! Evidence of this was from my son who returned from college one Fall for Thanksgiving and suggested that I should try one. I’d never tried an Old Fashioned before and wasn’t even sure what goes into one, but my son assured me...