The booze-loving New York Times devotes much of its Dining and Wine pages this week to the tipple. Because I love you all, I’ll give you a brief rundown of each article:

Pete Wells starts with a fun piece on off-putting cocktails: a Cosmo spiked with Pernod and pomegranate, for example, or a rum drink with [...]

Wow! 21 entries this time! That’s a great turnout, and I hope I didn’t miss anyone. Pardon the roughness of my prose here, but I wanted to get this post up so everyone can start reading through the entries. Consider this a rough draft. I’ll clean up the links and correct any errors later, so [...]

For MxMo 9, I wanted to go a little crazy and make my own batch of bitters. My limoncello experiment worked well enough that bitters seemed a logical next step. Now, Darcy O’Neil reviewed the new book The Art of the Bar, back in September, and with his review, he included a bitters recipe from [...]

It’s Mixology Monday time, so please have your entries in to me by the end of Monday in your time zone. I won’t publish the summary until some time on Tuesday, so don’t feel rushed.

All right everyone: don’t forget that Monday, 13 November, brings Mixology Monday 9: Bitters. So open your new bottle of Fee Brothers Lemon, dust off that fernet or amaro in the corner of your bar, and get mixing!

Edited to add: When your entry is ready, either leave a comment on this post, or email me [...]