This Bay Area Inspired Cocktail Might Be Stolen: Martinez Cocktail History + Recipe
The story goes like this: it was sometime in the 1860’s when a gold miner was on his way from San Francisco to nearby Martinez for a mining job. He…
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We love happy hour over here. We sometimes recreate historical or classic cocktail recipes like the old fashioned, moscow mule or Martinez (with a twist) but we’re also just a bunch of nerds here. You’ll also find clever (and sometimes punny) cocktails inspired by our favorite TV shows, books or movies. You can binge watch Harry Potter and have new Harry Potter cocktails to sip with every movie, or whip up a Loki inspired drink or pinkies up with a Bridgerton cocktail.
This Is A Nazi Fighting Cocktail: Suffering Bastard Recipe + History
This is a Nazi fighting cocktail. Yes, you read the correctly. It also doubles as a hangover cure, too. I found this recipe while working my way through the Around…
6 New Harry Potter Cocktails For The Ultimate Fan
No pumpkin juice or butterbeer here – we pushed ourselves to create totally original Harry Potter-inspired cocktails that you haven’t seen before. From a Death Eater’s margarita to a drink…
Dumbledore’s Beard: Mocha White Russian Cocktail
This dessert drink is inspired by Albus Dumbledore’s beard. Yes – you read that right. His beard. Stick with me here. This mocha white Russian cocktail is my new favorite…
Festive Sugar Plum Fairy Cocktail Recipe For The Holidays
Confession: one of my favorite nostalgia holiday movies is the Barbie Nutcracker. I watched it every year as a kid and you know what? Still holds up. So many Christmas…
Hogwarts Christmas Glühwein Recipe: A Harry Potter Inspired Mulled Wine
I am strongly convinced that when all but a few students go home for the holidays, the elves make a big batch of Hogwarts Christmas Glühwein for the professors to…
Gillywater Cocktail Recipe: The Unofficial Drink Of The Triwizard Tournament
Our Gillywater cocktail recipe is sweet, smooth and goes down easy (unlike the actual gillyweed which looks appalling to eat raw, lolz sorry Harry.) To make this cocktail, we asked…
Beauxbatons Horses Lavender Single Malt Cocktail Recipe
I’ve always been really fascinated by Beauxbaton and Durmstrang. I love the additional storyline of Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them but I also want to dive into the…
How To Make A Floo Powder Cocktail (With Muggle Fire!)
*~ Diagon Alley ~*!!! One pinch of Floo Powder (or cinnamon for this muggle) and BOOM, you have your tastebuds whisked away by the Floo Network to somewhere magical. This…
Death Eater’s Smoke Cocktail Recipe
When He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named calls, Death Eaters suddenly Apparate in clouds of black smoke… The first of our Harry Potter cocktail series, this Death Eaters Smoke Cocktail is a lot like a…
Q1908 Recipe: Recreating The Fairmont Empress 1908 Gin Cocktail From Our Trip To Canada
Last Christmas, my husband and I visited Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. We stayed at the Fairmont Empress Hotel, which is a stunning historic castle hotel next to the harbor.…