Barbados has the Dark and Stormy and now (thanks to me) Jamaica has the Red Storm. It's a beet infused beauty.

Tasting notes on Paul-Marie & Fils Devant La Porte Cognac: a very small sample of a very good cognac.

A special edition of Scottish beer BrewDog designed by students at Glyndwr University. Teams were given a day to come up with the flavor, packaging and branding of the beer.

Lucky Tiger Cocktail for Valentines Day

Light and soothing Green Tea and Ginger Cocktail on Savvy Housekeeping hits the spot!

Working my way through Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails, I'm onto The Blackthorn Cocktail tonight!

It is Tiki Month at the Pegu Blog. Let's start the drinking with Colonel Beach's Plantation Punch!

Alcademics compares three new brands of pisco.

SLOSHED! can help you beat those winter cold blues with a cognac, rye and mint Prescription Julep.

Delicious liquor with wine and walnut liquor.

Meyer Lemon Margarita

MENU's new 2010 collection has some amazing pieces that change the way you interact with wine ~ in particular loving the Wine Rebreather Carafe and the Baggy Wine Coat ~ see the details of how they work!

1860s Vodka is a new American Vodka that is five time distilled through mesquite charcoal. The bottle even comes wrapped in real leather. Very Wild West!

RumDood digs through "Vintage Spirits & Forgotten Cocktails" and mixes a Twelve Mile Limit with rum, brandy, rye, and grenadine.

Vedett is a premium Belgium beer brand with a somewhat different attitude to bottle design, you can submit your photo on their website and your face will be plastered on 10,000 beer bottles.

Cocktail Virgin shares the Double Standard. Don't let the pink fool ya'! Mixed by Derric Crothers, it contains gin, rye, lime and a fresh raspberry syrup.

Bergamot oranges lend their exotic character to this original bourbon cocktail.

Jane Austen drank Quince Ratafia. It's easy to make and delicious in cocktails or straight.

Miami New Times shares the recipe for Club 50's Wheat & Mint ~ a gin and beer cocktail.

The Pegu Blog issues a call to arms to save the OXO Mini Measure from extinction!

The Kitchn test drives a close cousin to the Sidecar, the Applecar.

Macallan + W Los Angeles + NOTCOT ~ a fun little get together, first time playing host... and we even got to sip Macallan 57! More interestingly, see the social media component with their favorite, twitter.

The "Oaxacan Daisy," served at The Dizzy Fizz Blogger Brunch at Clover Club, was a romantic mix of raspberry syrup and amaro with smoky Sombra Mezcal.

Home-cured olives in just three weeks.

It’s easy to lose track of all the new gins appearing at the moment, but Geranium is one of a handful that really stand out above the noise. Jay Hepburn reviews the new London dry gin.

With craft distilleries popping up left and right, is vodka the true American spirit? Valet explores ... love the interactive map.

My current obsession ~ Mexican Hot Chocolate! Found this outstanding recipe on Food Woolf that includes rum & maraschino liqueur.

The Green Tea Gimlet: a tea twist to the cocktail classic for this month's Mixology Monday

Belgianfest in Seattle, held in the old Rainier Beer brewery in historic Georgetown neighborhood

Kusmi Chocolate and Mint tea marries Mojito over at A Mountain of Crushed Ice for this months Mixology Monday.

Everything you ever wanted to know about Applejack. Plus reviews of applejack distillers and recipes for applejack cocktails.

The Mindas Touch cocktail and other winter wonders to get you through the season...

Lost Angeles reviews Templeton Rye! A whiskey only in Iowa/Illinois!

PS 7's Gina Chersevani created some beautiful and tasty cocktails with less than 110 calories. Washington Post's GOG Blog has the details.

The Cosimo: Cosimo de Medici's Jasmine Chocolate with Armagnac and cream is romance in a glass...

For this MxMo Pavel Y. aka scomorokh from Science of Drink blog wrote about tea like a kiss and admirable English Cobbler Cocktail.

"Christmas wishes printed onto the glass of the bottle, the design being suggestive of measuring jug graphics. The concept therefore, the more you drunk the merrier the message."

Two iconic brands of cocktail staples are going through a shakeup. Manhattans and Martinis may never be the same again.

The Food Channel tells you how to make a pitcher of pretty margaritas from scratch for your party. No more mixes.

Happy thoughts for a rainy day: Colleen Mullaney, author of It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere, shares her favorite recipes for Island cocktails (pictured: The Voodoo) with Coastal Living.

My first cosmo made with SNOW ~ and it was snowing on the outdoor furniture made of ice by the fire on the patio... Amazing Absolut party at Sundance for the launch of their Spike Jonze film.

Gus McShane of Copa D’Oro in Santa Monica made two fresh passion fruit cocktails for KCRW's "Good Food."

Instructables and ThinkGeek held a Cocktails vs. Mocktails contest. So fun! Here's the cocktail winner, the Color-Changing Cocktail. It " smokes elegantly, changes from a calm blue to fuschia"

The Palm cocktail by The Hedley Club at the DeAnza Hotel, which made the Mercury News' list of the best hotel bars in the Silicon Valley.

Totally jealous because I didn't make it to the Science of Cocktails event at the Exploratorium to see them playing with liquid nitrogen, among other things. Some good coverage at SF Gate.

Savvy Housekeeping mixes up bourbon, pear syrup, maraschino liqueur and ginger ale for the super-tasty Pearaschino cocktail!