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Firstly, God Damn do I love this film, (the 1988 hollywood version not the more recent Far Eastern variations) it is one of those films that I could watch over and over and over again, and Tom Cruise just happens to be one of my favourite actors ever. But there are some definite problems to be ha ...

Made from fermented sugarcane juice, Cachaca is considered as one of the most popular liquors in Brazil. Also known as pinga, caninha, and aguardente, Cachaca is a top spirit, which can be drunk without any mixture or mixed with other ingredients.

The History of the Cachaca

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Hey there fellow drinkers, embibers, travllers and wanderers. We're on the hunt for some great writers to add some guest blog posts to our site.

We wanted to bring great content to our already great database and technical tools, but we need your help! When we started out on the site we ha ...

Ask the average person if they’ve ever heard of a Hot Toddy, and they’re likely to say they have. Ask them what a Hot Toddy is, and you may get a variety of answers. The cocktail doesn’t have a standard recipe. It needs to contain some type of liquor; a sweetener, such as honey ...

Facing a large party or in search of convenience, the cocktail connoisseur can be tempted by bottled juices. They boast impressive shelf lives, simplicity and no messy fruit peels to contend with. However, in a battle of flavour, there is no contest. Fresh juice will always yield a more delicious ...

Its been a busy old week here at MMAC HQ, but we can finally show off our lovely promotional video that we've finished up a couple of days ago. We're super excited to get this out there and start bringing in more users to the site, helping more people create great cocktails. Here is is. Watch, en ...

We are proud, oh so proud, to release the NEW Make me a Cocktail, which we've cleverely named version 2.5. The new update comes with a massive sleuth of added functionality, new imagery, new additions, as well as a whole host of tweaks, bug fixes, minor alterations and security updates. With so m ...

Maybe you've noticed from some of our social network postings, or maybe you read an earlier blog post that we were creating a new version of Make Me A Cocktail, or maybe, just maybe, you're reading this because you're waiting fro the kettle to boil. Either way, we wanted to showcase to you some o ...

James Bond’s "shaken, not stirred" reference is synonymous with the history of cocktail shakers. Having been greatly influenced by the golden years of the cocktail himself, author Ian Fleming released his first Bond adventure during the re-emergence of the 5 O’clock cocktail hour, so ...

Just two years after Puerto Rico became a Commonwealth of the United States, on August 15, 1954, at the Beachcomber Bar in the Caribe Hilton Hotel in San Juan, bartender Ramón "Monchito" Marrero supposedly created the now-famous “...