(Photo: Susanna Bolle)

Not to be overly melodramatic, but this is a (belated) lament for an end of an era of sorts.

DrinkBoston, which has been the most influential cocktail blog in the city for over five years, published its last post earlier this month. The reason for its demise? Nothing sinister. Lauren Clark, the woman behind the blog, is moving across the country to LA for a new, improved day job. Boston’s nightlife (or, at the very least its bar life) will be the poorer for her absence.

Since DrinkBoston’s inception, Clark, who is a trained bartender herself, has covered all aspects of the craft cocktail scene in Boston and beyond. She was one of the first and most ardent champions of the city’s best bartenders and one of the great propagandists of the cocktail revolution.

So raise a glass in her honor (perhaps from one of the Random Recipes on DrinkBoston’s sidebar) and take comfort in the fact that you can still read through the archives.