Tonight is our Christmas Eve, so we are putting presents under the tree and drinking mulled wine for #AlcoholicAdvent . 🍷

Merry Christmas #AlcoholicAdventists!

I suppose you think that’s it for #AlcoholicAdvent for another year? But in our house Christmas Eve is tomorrow due to NHS shifts. Work finishes in the morning of 26th for one of the kids; home in time for breakfast and opening stockings with the rest of us.

Have a great Christmas my little #AlcoholicAdventists!

Make sure you sober up a bit between Christmas and New Year; who’s up for #Ginuary? 🥂

For my #AlcoholicAdventists this evening we have vodka. As if eating the mince pie, nibbling the carrot and downing whatever snifter the kids chose for @FatherChristmas a bit later wasn’t enough!

We’ve got our own Damson vodka on the right, but that would be cheating, so I’ve chosen the Wildcat vanilla vodka. Do you remember mixing your ice cream around until it turned into a soup when you were a kid? It’s like that but with a kick!
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Tequila is not my drink of choice, but I am a martyr to the cause for you, my #AlcoholicAdventists. In fact, I am having it neat, and it’s not as rough as I expected. Perhaps it’s because it is a good quality 100% agave Tequila.

What are you lot drinking this #AlcoholicAdvent evening?

Mmmm. I think we’ll have another glass of that, and a mince pie. #AlcoholicAdvent

A tasty homemade Damson gin is on the schedule this #AlcoholicAdvent evening. We made about 4 litres of it last year from the single Damson tree in our garden.

Tonight in #AlcoholicAdvent we have the much more palatable Port. We’ve got both white and ruby to savour.

I’m not very good at this drinking thing. Last night was #AlcoholicAdvent nut night, but I don’t like Amaretto! Did you #AlcoholicAdventists drink any?

Well my little #AlcoholicAdventists, we are into the final stretch. This evening I am imbibing Calvados. I’m not joined by anyone else in the family - it’s an acquired taste. Are you keeping up with the #AlcoholicAdvent schedule?

Tonight’s drink is the reason that #AlcoholicAdvent was created. We went to Malta on holiday in February and were persuaded to buy a bottle of prickly pear cactus liqueur in the airport on the way home. Of course we haven’t drunk a drop of it since we got home. Without this tradition we’d have yet another bottle in the cabinet! It is very nice though.

Following the theme we are now sampling a Mimosa, just to make sure that we can tick off Prosecco *and* cocktails this evening.
How are all you #AlcoholicAdventists doing on #AlcoholicAdvent cocktail night?

We’re not very good at this. We didn’t have time for #AlcoholicAdvent again last night, so we missed Prosecco night. I hope you have a few bubbles.

Now we can get on with tonight’s #AlcoholicAdvent drink. It is orange night. You could have a Triple Sec, or a vodka and OJ. We’re having a blood orange liqueur. Cheers!

Madeira is 😊 - we had to have second. #AlcoholicAdvent

So, yes, last night in #AlcoholicAdvent we should have had Madeira. Bottoms up!

The original aim of #AlcoholicAdvent was to clear out all of the old bottles in the drinks cabinet - all those tipples that you bought on holiday and then didn’t drink again for 20 years! Tonight we go back to that ideal: it’s leftovers night.
We’ve got slightly more than 1 measure of Martini, and some brandy that we never drink. Perhaps we should cook with it more!

It’s another classic simple spirit and mixer again this evening in #AlcoholicAdvent - rum and coke.

#AlcoholicAdvent continues this evening with Curaçao. Back to the 1970s, having it with just lemonade.

Tonight is coffee night in #AlcoholicAdvent and that brings another of my favourite drinks: Mr. Black, an Australian strong coffee vodka. My better half is having Kahlua.

Bottoms up! It’s peach schnapps tonight in #AlcoholicAdvent