
Three New Cocktails for the New Year!
KEVIN'S COCKTAILS will be going on hiatus (as I will be immersed in writing my newest novel). But I want to leave you with three...

Retro Cocktail for December: B&W Russian
At the end of the Second World War, there was a charmed moment between America and the Soviet Union, before the Cold War set in and put...

Retro Cocktail for November: The Gimlet
November’s RETRO COCKTAIL couldn’t be simpler, with two household ingredients (if you have a cool household). And the result is a classic...

The Planet Pluto: A Cocktail About Never Giving Up
When I was a small boy of four or five, my parents took me to the annual Easter Egg Hunt. It was quite the event in our little town, as...

Orange Crush: A Vodka & OJ For Grown Ups
For many of us, our first “mixed drink” was that time in high school when somebody scored a bottle of two-buck Popov. We watched in awe...

Sludge: A Drink That Tastes Great But Looks Hideous
The importance of presentation, regarding a cocktail (and life in general), cannot be over-emphasized. After all, it’s your introduction...

Anomie: A Cocktail of Alienation, Inebriation, & Some Marvelous Mad Men Memes
“Our leaders suck, religion’s bunk Fuck it all, let’s get drunk!” —Postupack family saying anomie 1. social instability resulting from a...

Retro Cocktail for July
: Parisian
There’s not a lot of information about this month’s RETRO COCKTAIL, the “Parisian”, also known as the “Parisian Cocktail”. What we do...

Thoughts & Prayers: A Cocktail Filled With Healing
Through the miracle of the Internet, the world has become a more compassionate place. In the old days of the bygone 20th Century, if...

Caravaggio’s Dilemma: Another Effed-Up Artist & the Double-Edged Sword of Genius
Caravaggio was a crazy bastard who lost his parents at an early age and died miserably. But he was also a great and visionary artist, so...