Friday Fête: Four Drinks

Since the weekend is here (thankfully), I thought I’d point you towards four drink ideas from the drinker’s blogosphere to get your booze-y motor running and to give you some starting points.

• Nobody’s Darling: From LUPEC Boston, this lovely mix just won the Hendrick’s Gin Beantown Bartender Battle, and comes with a limerick. So, there’s poetry in the glass and in the air.

• Ti’Punch: At Trader Tiki’s they’re punching it up right with this Rhum Agricole-based combo (and, you’ll get to learn a lot about Rhum Agricole while getting ready to get punched–in the friendly fashion, that is). 

• The Maple Leaf: Okay, this is a little old, but I’ve just been browsing the archieves at Drink Dogma, and so saw it for the first time. A bourbon, maple syrup, and lemon juice cocktail sounds like a great way to wind down a Saturday.

• Ring My Bell Martini: From a blog that’s new to me, Listen to the Ice, this may be the first drink I’ve had with bell peppers, gin, and peach in it–making it ideal for late summer when the gardens are popping. Also, it’s the first Italian drinks blog I’ve known (and how happy I am to have found it).

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Opening Round

Hello cocktail lovers, highball hitters, long-tall sippers, and, of course, punch cup plunders, and welcome to my blog, Spiked Punch. My plan is to make it a drinking and entertaining (well, let’s hope) blog, that’ll feature recipes, cocktail art, cocktail videos (of the silly and straightforward varieties), quotes about drinking, drinks, soirées, and box socialing, stories, and other conversational imbibable (and maybe a little edible) delights–a number of ingredients that play well together, like a good punch. As well as links to other blogs that fall into the same liquid and edible realm, because there are many, many great blogs like that out there. Which is one of the main reasons I wanted to start my own blog–I wanna be a part of the great drinker’s blogosphere. It’s a fun place to hang out, and now I get to be in the party. Hopefully this blog will be updated on a semi-regular basis, and (even more hopefully), you’ll come back, comment, and then I’ll get to sit at this virtual bar with you and sip and talk and sip. That sounds lovely to me. Cheers.

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