Hiram Walker Original Cinn arrives with its 6 sinful companions.

This week’s roundup from the mixology world.

SF Weekly asks Josh Harris if bartenders should trademark their cocktails.
Endless Simmer gives us their top 10 cocktail mixers.
The Atlantic debates the notion of copyrighted cocktails.
Asylum has some deep-fried beer. That’s right; we said DEEP-FRIED BEER!
Jeffery Morgenthaler shows us how to make (or not make) sangria.
Whiskey Grotto takes us on a journey of celebrities and the whiskeys they love.

We recently had the pleasure to taste Tequila Avión, a new brand produced of Blue Weber Agave found in the highest regions of Jalisco, Mexico. The brand, launched in July, by the founder of MarquisJet, is a labor of love. Not a product of Entourage, the HBO series, where Avión has been featured this season. The folks at Avión met an Entourage producer and the rest is history. It was cool to see Mark Cuban … Read more

Fresh for the first day of Bourbon Month, here are this week’s links from the wonderful world of booze:

Halloween is coming and Food Channel thought it’s be agood time to find out why Dan Akroyd started Crystal Head Vodka.
HuffPo put together a fun video slide show of drunks vs. intimate objects. Please don’t try this at home (or, if you do, send us the video)!
The LA Times Ministry of Gossip reports a … Read more

Here’s this week’s boozy links from around the interwebs.

- Serious Eats wants to know if you drink at brunch.
– TheKitchn serves up some boozy deserts.
– Hal at A Muddled Thought gives us a back stage look at the Tales of the Cocktail Apprentice Program.
– Camper at Alchademics has started an archive of airline booze menus. If your flying snap a picture and send it over.
– A Dash of Bitters waxes … Read more

Ingredients

1 ½ oz gin
½ oz apricot brandy
½ oz amaretto

Instructions

Combine ingredients in a rocks glass filled with ice. Stir well.

This week’s hard drink’n links:

Cocktail Obituary – Sex on the Beach – theKitchn (featuring a video from yours truly)

Survey of Drinking – Esquire
Nerdiest Kegerator Ever – BuzzFeed
How To Make Small Talk at a Bar – The Bartender Files
The Hidden Health Benefits of Alcohol? – HuffPo
The Line Between Simple & Stupid – Endless Simmer
Infusion Profusion: Game-Changing Fast ‘N Cheap Technique – Cooking Issues
Century-Old Crate Of Scotch Whisky Pulled … Read more

This week’s collection of links!

Is Drinking Alcohol Healthy or Dangerous? – Summer Tomato
Man Opens 200 Bottles of Beer in Just over a Minute – Asylum
Drunk People Will Save the Airline Industry – Gawker
Hangover Pizza – Endless Simmer
Quinn for the Win – Libation Lab