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MxMo: the first time
For everything in life, there’s an inside and an outside. This month, LUPEC Boston asks us how we’d welcome the unsure to the cocktail party. It’s Mixology Monday, and we want to know one thing: do you...
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Week Ten: Winter’s End
11:44am on March 20 2009 marks the Vernal Equinox, one of the two points of the year at which the Sun is directly over the Earth’s equator. Or the Earth’s equator is directly over the Sun, if you want...
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Week Eleven: Spring Orchard
We’ve just finished putting together a new cocktail program for the Paris bar at work and everytime we take on this kind of exercise, there’s a point when someone says “we need x cocktails with this...
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Newsdesk: best in Britain
This edition of Newsdesk is sponsored by local pride coloured with a touch of envy. Lots of lovely things have been written about Bramble down on Queen Street, all of which are annoyingly true. So,...
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Newsdesk: summer is coming
(splash by Trevor D., licensed under Creative Commons.) It’s summer! It must be, all the clues are there. There was sunlight this afternoon – proper sunlight with warmth and everything! The other big...
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Adventures in space, time and vodka
Here’s a thought. Cocktails destroy good spirits. It’s not my thought. It belongs to a man named Börje Karlsson, one of the master blenders involved with a new Swedish vodka called Karlsson’s Gold...
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Twenty Three: Reina Amargo
We are on the edge of a great moment in British history. We are in sight of the point at which the great British public see tequila as something other than a shot or a frozen margarita. My friends, the...
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Happy birthday America!
It’s been 233 years since the bouncing baby United States of America declared its independence from the United Kingdom, and it’s been thirteen years since a hardy band of patriots led by no less than...
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Twenty Four & Twenty Five: Colisão & Plantação
I’ve been thinking a lot about cachaca recently. This is not unconnected to receiving a couple of samples from Anthony at Abelha Cachaca the other day. It might be the third most popular spirit in the...
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Twenty Seven: Cherry Republic
Today is Bastille Day, the annual French celebration of storming prisons and liberating hundreds of deserving criminals. As we speak, this year’s breakout has seen no less than four hundred benefit...
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