posted on 3 June 2009 by dan
You don’t have to take our word for it any more.
From DrinkBoston: “Downtown Wine & Spirits in Davis Square, Somerville, has fairly recently expanded the “spirits” part of its name with hard-to-find bourbons, liqueurs, rums, etc. It also has the best combination website/blog of any liquor store in greater Boston. And they have regular tastings.”
If you don’t know this site, you really should, especially if you have any interest whatsoever in the wide and wonderful world of… well, drinking (and if you don’t have any interest in that world, you should probably ask yourself a couple questions re: why you’re hanging around our site). Founded, written, maintained and all that by Lauren Clark (check out her impressive resume), DrinkBoston contains all manner of 411 on the whole spectrum of booze, ranging from booze to booze accessories to booze events. Plus, she’s compiled lists of the area’s best bars and - this part might be the coolest bit - best bartenders. It’s about time somebody gave that fantastic class of people a little bit of love.
Seriously, check ‘em out.
dJp
oh, also: Scroll on down and dig on my response to Lauren’s guilty pleasure article
Tags: bars, bartenders, cocktails, DrinkBoston
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posted on 3 June 2009 by dan
Dig DrinkBoston’s article on guilty-pleasure cocktails. Good, good stuff, especially the bit where Lauren invites us to stand up and admit to the cocktails we drank to cut our teeth. She goes 1st, offers up Bombay Sapphire dirty martinis. Word. Okay. I remember the first sip of a dirty martini, having ordered one wholly unaware of what “dirty” might mean. And I wasn’t down with olives at the time.
I guess we’ll go 2nd then (or, 47th really, since there’s a whole bunch of comments on the article by now).
Tony and I used to have these theme days, wherein we’d get down with a bunch of drinks revolving around (can you guess?) a particular theme. Our favorite theme? “Girly drinks,” after which we decided that the phrase “girly drinks,” aside from being wildly sexist, is unfair and inaccurate to both women and booze. It takes the most masculine of men to order a Cosmo in a crowded bar. And y’know, frankly, some of our favorite cocktails are fruity and funny colors. That’s just how we go about things. In point of fact, Tony just read over this post so far and told me, “My favorite cocktail color is bright blue.” Then he thought for a second. “Or bourbon-brown.” Sounds about right.
So, anyway… I refuse to talk about guilty pleasures. The cocktails we used to drink? Used to and still do… and I’m damn proud of it. Say it with me now…
But wait! there’s more! Lauren goes on to shout-out her pre-Sapph. days, AKA the days when she wanted to booze but not actually taste booze, AKA the dairy cocktail days, AKA the White Russian and Mudslide days. She calls them boozey milkshakes, which we can dig; another of our themes was, in fact, boozey milkshakes. Real milkshakes. If you’re ever looking for a cocktail for the summer afternoons, get at Tony for our Faretti milkshake recipe, Faretti being an Italian biscotti liqueur. Yeah, biscotti, as in, the cookie.
Just don’t overdo ‘em - we had stomachaches for days.
dJp
oh, also: I just got my own stupid little pun up in the post heading.
Tags: boozey milkshakes, Cosmo, dirty martini, DrinkBoston, Faretti
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