Welcome to our cocktail advent calendar

Since we started this blog at a festive time, we thought our first project should be a holiday-themed one. Of course, we can't start small. So we're doing an advent calendar of cocktails. That's right – 24 days, 24 cocktails.

This advent calendar has been a month in the making. Spreadsheets have been involved. Multiple spreadsheets and many late-night video chats. But it's December 1st and we're ready to launch and share our first cocktail.

But before we get to that – a bit about how the calendar is organized. Every good advent calendar needs a theme. And we didn't want to just do "Christmas-related" – so we came up with the idea of choosing our favourite holiday characters from film, TV and literature and creating a cocktail that would suit each of their personality or back story.

Within our theme of Holiday Characters, we have six sub-themes (are you keeping up?). We won't reveal them ALL now .. but the first group are folks you would find on Santa's naughty list. And who's at the top of the list? The Heat Miser.