The Fluffy Ruffles, a pleasant, lime-tinged, rum Manhattan. Underhill Lounge dares you to order it out at a bar!

The producer claims each pour of Fragoli releases an equivalent amount of berries, according to Luxist.

Publishers Weekly calls Barbara Holland's 'Joy of Drinking' a "swift romp across the histories and cultures of alcohol down through the ages."

First blush is a new and fresh alternative to non alcoholic wine, it’s a juice made from wine grapes with flavours of Merlot, Cabernet, Chardonnay and Syrah grapes.

Wine stopper USB memory drive

Kiwi Juice - Made from scratch, it's the most delicious way to cleanse your system

Joerg at Drinkmix loves the Caipirinha -- his MxMo entry -- but not the way it’s made in most German bars. With good ingredients, we're not sure quite why this drink's a guilty pleasure.

FortiFido nutrient-enhanced bottled water... for dogs. Flavors include peanut butter (healthy bones), spearmint (fresh breath), lemongrass (healthy joints) and parsley (healthy skin).

Slashfood says alcohol consumption rises as financial woes increase, and ponders the re-emergence of the cocktail hour as a side-effect of the market downturn.

Despite the vodka, White Russians seem to be a popular Guilty Pleasure among the MxMo crew. Here's Dr. Bamboo's take on The Dude's 'caucasian'.

On Britain's most popular nighttime soap, Coronation Street residents drink Newton & Ridley beer in the local pub. Now the brand will cross over to real life, reports Beyonddrinks.

Master mixologist Jamie Boudreau has big plans to whip Seattle's oft-maligned Tini Bigs into a destination for classic drinks like the Rum Shrubb.

Off the Presses likes saying "Cherry Heering". (Who doesn't?) He uses it to shake up a Gilroy cocktail from Harry McElhone's 'Barflies & Cocktails'.

The Spirit World features the Blushing Geisha, a drink made with Ty-Ku -- a fruity, sochu-based liqueur-- pomegranate juice, and Sence rose nectar.

TalkDrinks samples the Lost Afternoon – tequila, raspberry, mint, and citrus -- at Sepia, Chicago's dining hot spot.

Mixology Monday hostess Stevie from Two at the Most chimes in with her own Guilty Pleasure: The Lemon Drop.

Sebastian Bergne's very beautiful Corker corkscrew.

The godfather of Mixology Monday, Paul Clarke won't admit to any Guilty Pleasure beyond an all-too-respectable Vodka Gimlet.

SpiritMeAway reports B&B has enlisted cocktail guru Gary Regan to create cocktail pairings for the dessert menu at NYC's Brasserie 8 1/2.

Beyonddrinks tells us: Belvedere asked students at the Danish Design School to design a new Danzka bottle. The winner was this snowflake theme.

Tiki blogger Craig Hermann’s not immune from guilty pleasures: “When I don’t feel getting out a shaker or even a jigger, I make myself a 7 & 7.”

Manhattan's Pegu Club earns Elephant's five-star rating "because they invented the Bensonhurst.”

The Jäger Bomb tastes like cough syrup, it’s loaded with sugar and caffeine, and its main ingredient is made entirely of industrial chemicals. In short, it's a perfect Guilty Pleasure for Mixology Monday.

Trader Tiki's guilty pleasure, the Coconaut. Not so much for the wonderful drink it is, but for just about every other reason possible.

Bon Appetit features the Northwood #2, a poetic blend of apple cider, maple syrup, and rum from from David Moo, co-owner of Brooklyn bar Quarter.

Inspired by the glowing beauty of the back-bar, Let's Get Lit candles make mood lighting out of a variety of recycled liquor bottles.

Another chocolate-flavored Guilty Pleasure for Mixology Monday: at least Sonja's Ultimate Chocolate Martini calls for her own artisan distilled North Shore Tahitian Vanilla Vodka.

Kalimotxo: Red wine and Coke, a crazy Spanish concoction that's also spelled Calimocho, is Scomorokh's Guilty Pleasure for MxMo.

When properly made, Pegu Blog defends his MxMo Guilty Pleasure entry -- the Kamikaze -- as a worthy drink despite a name that "sounds stupid, ignorant, and silly".

Charles H. Baker, Jr. truly did venture 'Around the World with Jigger, Beaker and Flask'. St. John Frizell pens an exhaustive biography of the cocktail-guide author (seen here with Hemingway).

After first claiming that the only embarrassing drink in his bar is the occasional lazy Old Fashioned, Michael at A Dash of Bitters comes clean and admits a taste for the Fuzzy Navel.

Another guilty pleasure from the Mixology Monday crew: Sweet Chocolate Lips from My Aching Head.

The unfortunately named Burnt Fuselage, from the Mud Puddle reprint of "Barflies and Cocktails," [Ed. Note: Marleigh's morbid curiosity about terrible-sounding cocktails is her Guilty Pleasure for MxMo]

Drinkhacker verifies that Samuel Adams Imperial Pilsner offers an “enormous, almost reckless” amount of Noble Hallertau Mittelfrueh hops.

After making drinks full of fancy ingredients and sneering at Grey Goose martini drinkers, Jeffrey Morgenthaler gets a little tired of flavor. So he orders -- gasp! -- vodka as his guilty pleasure.

Art of Drink reports on two new Canadian whiskies: Wiser's Small Batch Whisky and Forty Creek Double Barrel Reserve.

NY Times declares the elaborate cocktail the nighttime equivalent of the daytime frozen yogurt craze, and mixologists the city’s new DJs.

Oh Gosh! reports on Forgotten Flavours, the brainchild of two German bartenders unhappy with the quality of classic cocktail ingredients.

For Mixology Monday, Guilty Pleasures edition, Mark Sexauer confesses to his Sake Bomb habit, and advises "a large beer glass and cheap sake".

Out of more than 1,300 entries, Alex Drobshoff’s Traditional Bock won the 2008 Samuel Adams Homebrew Contest sponsored by Boston Beer Co.

Hidden away during Prohibition, Glencadam Viking Scotch should fetch sell for £3000 to £5000 at auction, says Luxist.

Grey Goose's interpretation of the ice bucket takes design cues from a Golden Age top hat. Only five pieces are available, at a cost of €2800 each.

The el Bulli starter kit -- endless possibilities for molecular mixology.

"Careful, man, there's a beverage here!" Vidiot's homage to the White Russian -- his Guilty Pleasure for Mixology Monday -- includes copious Big Lebowski references... as well it should.

It’s time again for Mixology Monday! This month’s theme is Guilty Pleasures, and Tiare confesses to a weakness for blue-green drinks.

Design House Stockholm ~ Spin Stoneware by Marie-Louise Hellgren ~ just saw these in person, and its such a gorgeous set ~ mug, saucer, and stirrer ~ perfect for tea and coffee, comes in pairs!