Every Drink I Had at Tales of the Cocktail

I just returned from New Orleans for Tales of the Cocktail, a cocktail convention attended by many of the world's top bartenders, drink writers, PR representatives, and superenthusiasts. I think this was my favorite year of the convention to date. 

I tweeted every cocktail I had over the week. Let's see how messy that looks added up!

Tuesday July 20, starting at 5PM

• Vieux Carre and an 
• Abita beer @ Monteleone Bar
• Another Abita beer at Carousel Bar at Monteleone
• makers mark on the rocks out of a plastic cup at acme oyster house
• Sazerac at Carousel Bar
• Vieux Carre at Carousel Bar
• Vieux Carre
• Giant Bud Light with some awful Pizza somewhere on Bourbon Street.

Wednesday July 21

• Coffee with Kahlua to start the day!
• Gold kiwifruit St Germain Splash
• kiwifruit cucumber reviver
• not sure what it's called but kiwi yummers
• Shot of rum before my seminar begins
• Three drinks at my seminar- rear admirals grog
• perudriver
• margarita
• Firefly bourbon in hotel room
• another sweet tea bourbon
• a shot of dubonnet cocktail out of a flask
• 3 glasses of Veuve Cliquot at dinner at Arnauds
• Shot of bourbon 
• bourbon cocktail
• miller lite
• orgeat drink
• 2 shots of Stock Fernet
• Ocho tequila
• Miller lite
• stock fernet

Thursday, July 22

• Cat Daddy Moonshine coffee drink at breakfast
• Drinks of Asia seminar cocktail: unkown cocktail with some herb that tastes like fuzzy lemon dandelion leaves
• cognac old fashioned
• Self Publishing seminar- an amaretto and gin cocktail
• Ron Abuelo juicy drink at Carousel Bar
• nutmeg drink at Consulting seminar 
• firefly bourbon
• Diageo Happy Hour drinks:

1. Joaquin riff on seelbach cocktail
2. Wayne Curtis drink with Oronoco rum and fernet
3. Singapore sling punch
4. Aviation from Simon Difford
5. Daiquiri from bill Norris
6. rosy sinclair by Jason Bram
7. Valentinos Denise by Jim rondall
8. Bryan Dayton serves a Mary Pickford
9. Phillip Duff makes a Clubland
10. Tequila negroni from Ricky gomez
11. Brian miller makes drink with tanqueray dolin chartreuse cocchi
12. Misty Kalkoffen drink 
13. John Lermayer drink
14. Lynette Manero makes a drink
15. Tommy klus Serves a Mexican firing squad
16. Pisco drink from Aisha Sharpe
17. Ed Hamilton actually makes a cocktail!! With Zacapa
18. Jim meehan with a Cuervo drink
19. Spicy drink from Wondrich
20. Sean Muldoon serves a trader Vic drink
21. Andrew Friedman serving a sagatiba drink
22. Cable Car from Tony Abou Ganim
23. Chad and Christie drink
24. Francesco Lafranconi drink
25. Josh Durr drink

• Cure bar daiquiri
• Another daiquiri at Cure
• Dubonnet cocktail In hotel room

Friday, July 23

• a sip of Ron Abuelo rum at breakfast
• 2 Disarono cocktails at my Social Media seminar
• A Glenfiddich drink from Jon Santer
• Bourbon carbonated grapes that taste like a Mint Julep at the Bax vs. Clift seminar
• Sazerac with absinthe fog
• Molecular michelada
• apple sous vide infused calvados. 
• Dehydrated fruit cereal with champagne
• Old fashioned with orange peel smoke served in a jar
• Quick bourbon in the room before a meeting
• 2 Abita Amber and a veggie mufalatta at Cage Maspero
• Pimms Cup at Napoleon House
• Abita Amber at Napoleon House
• glass of bourbon
• Hilo Hai cocktail with Teader Tiki Syrups!
• Stella Artois.
• nip of Ron Abuelo

Saturday, July 24

• a spicy Hendricks cocktail 
• Mount Gay Rum punch.
• Wet Grave cocktail in Darcy Oneils fascinating Soda seminar- bourbon, acid phosphate, bitters, vermouth, claret syrup
• Soda seminar drink with Root beer, gentian, bourbon, acid phosphate
• 10cane rum drink in the Subconscious Drinks seminar
• a sip of Geranium Gin
• Brandy Milk Punch in the Caousel Bar
• 2 rum drinks in hotel room followed 
• 2 martinis at Tales of the Cocktail awards
• Glenlivet Nadurra 16 
• Another gin martini at Tales awards 
• Many swigs of Jameson 18
• a beer with my slice of awful but sobering pizza on bourbon street

Sunday, July 25th

• A morning Akvinta vodka cocktail.
• Stella Artois at breakast
• A Dalmore cocktail at the Keeping Ahead in an Online World seminar
• second Dalmore cocktail
• A final vieux carre at carousel bar.
• One last beer at the airport 

Apparently I had 35 drinks on Thursday. That would be terrifying but do keep in mind that for the vast majority of these drinks I had only a sip out of a glass that only held an ounce or so at maximum. 

Still, my liver will be getting a much-earned rest for a while now that I'm home.