Cocktailia

I freely admit that I haven’t been doing a very good job keeping this site updated lately. There are a few reasons for this, not the least of which being laziness, being a crap blogger, being busy with other things, etc, but one less apparent reason is that I had forced the site into a format that wasn’t really appropriate and that affected how I came to maintain it.

Cocktailia started out as a blog back at the end of 2007. It was spun off of my regular blog, seeded with a bunch of back posts I had originally written for that site. That worked out pretty well for a time but then I started thinking bigger. I wanted an online magazine, not a blog. So I invented a structure for my posts and designed a new site based around that. That also worked ok for a while, until I realized that I didn’t have a good way to present anything that didn’t fit into my rigid structure of recipes, bar reviews, etc. The kind of stuff you would post to a blog, basically. This led to a kind of stagnation and put up a barrier to my posting more frequently, as regular readers have seen lately.

So in an effort to fix that, I’m relaunching yet again as a basic, no-frills cocktail blog, with a new site design that better reflects that. All the old content is still here, of course, and I’ll continue writing recipes, photos, and bar reviews, but I’ll also be posting more blog-like content with bits of things I find interesting, useful, amusing, or whatever. This change in focus will hopefully help me get back into a more frequent posting schedule. I doubt you’ll be seeing daily updates, but let’s try to find a middle ground between that and the every-week-or-two thing I’ve been doing lately.

Feedback is welcome, either here or on my new Cocktailia Twitter account: @cocktailia (my regular account is @kchrist). As for articles to come, I’ve found a bunch of really great bars here in Portland that I’ll be posting about soon, so stay tuned. Thanks for reading.