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Breaking the fast // Checking in

Breaking the fast // Checking in

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Home Bar Spring Favorites

ALL NEW Home Bar Gift Guide: Spring Favorites for 2020!

We’re having some grey, dark days right now. So while I’m staying inside watching the weather, I think it’s time to brighten up the home bar with these pops of color! Sunny days ahead! At least with my drinks…

1. Underwood Sparkling Rosé 2. Yellow Cups 3. Fruit Drink Stirrers 4. Coasters 5. Pommery Brut Rosé Royal Champagne 6. St. Agrestis 7. Bottle Opener

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ALL NEW Monday Booze News: A new low-abv drink to try, jello shots for St. Patrick's Day, and getting to know Tennessee whiskey!! First, apparently there are a myriad of ways to clean a wine decanter. Who knew? Well, now you do…

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ALL NEW Monday Booze News: All about Chartreuse, sleep where your beer is made, and more tiki mugs you'll want to buy! Happy TIki Mug Monday folks! If you're into tiki mugs AND the Mandalorian, Tiny Tony has a presale for his Child mug and it's gonna be cuuuuuute…

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Tequila Cazadores: Cristalino Launch

Get Excited!! New from Tequila Cazadores: Cristalino Launch!

This post was made in partnership with Tequila Cazadores. Ideas are my own.

This past year I’ve been really lucky to work with a brand that I have loved, and drank, for years: Tequila Cazadores. When starting this partnership I found out that I was going to have a really exciting task, introduce a brand new type of tequila to the market! I mean, it’s not everyday that a totally new category comes…

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Mixed Citrus Margaritas for Margarita Day

NEW recipe post! Mixed Citrus Margaritas for Margarita Day with Tequila Cazadores!

This post was made in partnership with Tequila Cazadores. Recipes and ideas are my own.

We have a tangelo tree in our backyard. It’s the only citrus tree that has not succumbed to years of neglect in the jungle outside our backdoor; it is tenacious to say the least. This year, after finally cutting back the honeysuckle that was blocking most of the sunlight from hitting its leaves, it produced an…

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Building a Home Bar: Keeping Cool with the Newair Premiere Line Fridge

For those of you who have been around here since the early days, you may recall that we were going to build a bar in what is now my studio area in the house. And if you’re new here, well, that bar never happened. Fast forward almost a decade later and we are now finally ready to start building out what will be our new outdoor entertaining area. And tucked away within will be the home bar we’ve…

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ALL NEW Monday Booze News! Presidents Day Drinking Edition!! First! This weekend Cocktail Presets is having a 50% off sale in anticipation for our new Spring Cocktails Series launching later next month.

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ALL NEW Monday Booze News: Beer helps reunite dog with owner, pink spirits, and is tofu booze ever coming??? First we've rounded up all the pretty colored drinks if you want something nice to make this week that also tastes good…

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Valentine's Day Round Up

It's a Valentine's Day Round Up! All the red, white, pink, and purple drinks for you!!!

Drink up all the colors of love…

A Simple Bottled Negroni… for two… or more

Make a Shirley Temple with a bottle of homemade grenadine

A sexy, smoky Negroni

Vegan Sloe Gin Fizz

Frozen Blood and Sand

Raspberry Pisco Sour

Purple Halo

The Water Lily Cocktail

Blueberry Basil Smash

Ruby Fizz

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ALL NEW Monday Booze News: Finding rare booze, yet another use for bacon and cocktails, and bitters from Japan!! For those of you who partied a little too hard last night, and you're in NYC, get yourself to one of these bars this morning for a Bloody Mary…

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ALL NEW Monday Booze News: Wine in the river, Drinking with Chickens, and Tiki News!! We'll be back to our regularly scheduled booze recipe posts next week, but first... more booze news...

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Monday Booze News: Booze-less bartenders, using mango pits for syrups, and the 100th anniversary of Prohibition If you're saving your nonalcoholic drinking for "Sobertober" you can preorder what looks to be an amazing collection of booze-less drinks…

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Monday Booze News: Meat and cheese pairings, more noABV drinks, and some booze technology! First, we rounded up some of our fav non-alcoholic drinks from the site. Check them out…

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ALL NEW Monday Booze News for the new year: The 2019 booze trend wrap up, what's coming in 2020, and drinking expensive booze in an igloo! Looking ahead to the next decade, here's a few trends in drinking that are sure to stick around awhile…

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Happy Holidays from Stir and Strain! We're signing off through the end of the year to enjoy some much needed time with family and friends.

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Rey's Rations

ALL NEW recipe post: Rey's Rations, a cocktail inspired by The Rise of Skywalker! With Tequila!

I have walked through Star Wars land here in Southern California many, many times now and still, when I change lands from Disney to Batuu I still cannot get over the total transformation that happens. I honestly did not think I would care one bit about it, but I do find myself, while at Disneyland, making a point to stop through that land just to take in the sights and sounds. Oh! And they have…