Mixology Monday

We’re dragging through the steamy days of summer, but after giving Mixology Monday most of the season off, we’re gearing up to get this monthly cocktail party started again with MxMo August, which takes place Monday, August 30.

For this “welcome back” edition of MxMo, we’re bringing out a heavy-hitter host: Lindsey Johnson from Lush Life Productions, who’ll be hosting the event at her blog, Brown, Bitter and Stirred; for her theme, Lindsey has chosen — appropriately enough — “Brown, Bitter and Stirred.”

While punches, sours and flips are essential parts of every cocktail fiend’s drinking diet, perhaps no other style of drink is as dear to our booze-loving hearts as those potent mixtures of aged spirits, amari, aromatized wines and liqueurs, sometimes (sometimes? Almost always!) doctored with a dash or four from the bitters shelf.

This MxMo will celebrate these styles of drink; whether it’s a basic Manhattan with a tinkered touch of Averna, or a revolutionary mixture of tequila, Campari and pure adrenaline, mix up your favorite brown-booze cocktail and put the details (and a photo) on your blog by the end of Monday, August 30. Let Lindsey know you’ve participated — her announcement post will be up soon with contact details — and then sit back and see what your fellow cocktail fans have come up with in the days to come.

Summer isn’t over, but it’s time to look forward to the dark drinks of fall. See you on August 30-