Mixology Monday

Posts kept trickling in after the deadline, but hosts for September’s Mixology Monday, Dinah and Joe at Bibulo.us, have everything wrapped up. Check out the roundup for 19th Century Cocktails, and thanks, Dinah and Joe, for hosting!

The next Mixology Monday is scheduled for September 15. Hosting this round will be Joe and Dinah (aka Metagrrrl) at Bibulo.us, and this history-minded couple has selected 19th Century Cocktails as the theme. Sounds pretty straightforward, so start dusting off your crustas and pondering your cobblers and other old-school drinks, and keep an eye out at Bibulo.us for further details.

This month’s host, Kevin at Save the Drinkers, has the roundup posted for Mixology Monday: Local Flavor. Forty (maybe more — I lost count somewhere) participants! That may be a new record. Head over to Kevin’s place and check out how everyone got local:

XXX Monday

Since the last round was scheduled late in the month to coincide with the end of Tales of the Cocktail — plus there was a week’s extension so everyone could recover from Tales of the Cocktail — that means we’ve got only a short window until the next round of Mixology Monday.

This round takes place Monday, August 11, and the theme is Local Flavor. Hosting the event is Kevin at Save the Drinkers; in his announcement post, Kevin writes:

The idea is to post one of two types of drinks:

Option 1: Gather ingredients that are representative of the culture/geography/tackiness of your respective cities and make a drink with a truly place-based style. For example, huckleberries are native to the geographical area where I live, as are elderflowers, potatoes, and extremely conservative, closet-case politicians. (I’m just saying!)

Option 2: Dig up an old drink that came from your city and revive it! If you can find the original bar, that would be even more interesting.

Have your post up my the close of Monday, August 11, and — here’s the important part — be sure to place your post’s URL in a comment on Kevin’s announcement post so he knows you’re participating and can include you in the roundup.

Tales of the Cocktail is now but a hazy memory for most of us, but on Monday, July 28, 37 bloggers participated in Mixology Monday XXIX: New Orleans. Many, many Ramos Gin Fizzes, Absinthe Suissesses and other drinks either originating in or inspired by the Crescent City were mixed for this round, and working through them all will take quite an effort.

Hosting this round was The Cocktail Chronicles; the roundup post can be found right here.

(And since Rum Dood raised the question: I’m suggesting that hosts continue to keep the roundups on their own sites; one of the benefits of hosting is having the additional web traffic come your way, so I’m thinking the Mixology Monday site should aid in that, rather than compete with the host for readers’ eyeballs.)