I continue to be impressed and humbled by the other cocktail sites I stumble across.

• Darcy at The Art of Drink has a rundown of some sites; check out his post, too, on Drinks Bartenders Hate to Make.
• Rick’s Kaiser Penguin has been posting an incredible series on tiki drinks.
• Bar Mix-Master has been quiet lately but has great stuff in the archives.

Paul of Cocktail Chronicles surveys the growth of cocktail blogging and proposes a blog carnival, i.e. a day of posts devoted to a given topic. So he’s instituted Mixology Monday, the first one which will take place on April 24, on the topic of pastis, anise liqueur. As Darcy of TAoD explains,

“Mixology Monday”… is based on other weblog community projects like “Is My Blog Burning?” and “Wine Blogging Wednesday”. The basic idea is that anyone interested can write an article on the selected topic (this week it’s Pastis, i.e. anise flavour) and publish it to their blog. You don’t even need to have a cocktail related weblog, nor does the topic need to be about drinking the selected product. It can be about your bad experiences in college, your good experiences while travelling through France, or how you used it in a pudding recipe. After you’ve published your article, you email the topic host and they will publish a list of participants on their blog. Make sure you put a link in your post to the hosting weblog so people can jump in on any discussion.

He’s even concocted a terrific logo:

Mike, of Days that End in Y, has a general drinks-related blog carnival planned, which I’ll have more details on as I find out (or check out the initial post). I look forward to the vibrant online discussion on fine drinking.