Mixology Monday is the monthly online cocktail gathering. Every month (on a Monday) imbibers from across the globe gather together to post in unison around a shared topic. In the month of April, 2009, The Wild Drink Blog will modestly host the goings-on and provide the theme for proceedings.

For a lot of you, this will no doubt be your first visit to my humble abode and I hope to make your stay on British shores as pleasant as possible.

It is with both great pride and trepidation that I announce this months Mixology Monday: “Superior Twists”. Pride that my blog should host such a respected and established event as MxMo, and trepidation for my blogs pathetically meager bandwidth, as you guys flock in like a bunch jigger branding geese!

So what’s the theme all about? Well, not the picture on the left! – Is that someone’s house he is dancing in?!

This month’s Mixology Monday is all about twists on classic cocktails, that for one reason or another do an even better job than the drinks upon which they are based.

This could be as simple as a classic Margarita with a dash with a special touch that completes it, or maybe as complicated as a deconstructed Hemingway Daiquiri with a homemade rum foam/caviar/jus/trifle. It might be taking a classic like a Manhattan and using Tequila instead of Bourbon?

Classics certainly have their place both on our cocktail lists and in our mouths, but many of these creations were devised in times where where the variety and quality of ingredients to play with were limited. Surely with the colossal array of spirits, liqueurs, bitters, fruit, spices, herbs and tinctures at out disposal today, a motley crew of sloshed bloggers such as ourselves can make a decent attempt at improving some old school drinks?

Here is what you need to do:

1. Devise an original cocktail, preferably relevant to the theme, then blog it on (or by) Monday 13th April.
2. Email me – tristan(at)tristanstephenson.com the following information: Your name, your cocktails name, the URL of your blog post and most importantly of all… your favourite song to dance the twist too!
3. Make sure that you post a link back to this post AND the Mixology Monday website, also please endeavor to include the MxMo logo in your post.
4. No blog? No worries! Head on over to the eGullet Spirit’s and Cocktail Forum and abuse their excellent forum facilities. Failing that, leave me something in the comments.

Once all of the recipes have been colated and checked for spelling mistakes (colour, flavour, realise etc. !!) I will publish a roundup of the event with a summary of every drink submitted. Good luck everyone, my palate is already moistened just thinking about the excellent concoctions you guys will undoubtedly come up with!

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