Alcademics

15 new cocktails and drink books on everything from distilling to mead to drinks to accompany music and travel to favorite bars to rules for drinking. Read more →

The upsides to fun and funky glassware are pretty obvious - increased sales, social, and smiles- but what about the challenges of theft, breakage, and labor of hand-washing? Read more →

New Booze is now on a separate blog - you can subscribe to its feed, visit that blog, or just check out the links to the posts on a sidebar here on Alcademics. Read more →

For my latest story on SevenFifty Daily, I wrote about gin portfolios (navy, barrel, flavors, distillers editions, sloe, etc) - not just that they're now a thing, but why some producers decided to launch more than one gin at a time and how some imported gins offer a rainbow of flavors at home but just a bottle or two internationally.  Read more →

In my latest post on SevenFifty Daily, I interviewed Shel Bourdon, director of bars for the Two Roads Hospitality group that runs Joie de Vivre and Thompson hotels, among others.  Read more →

April 19th is #NationalAmarettoDay and Disaronno has stacked up some ways to celebrate in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.  Read more →

In my new story for SevenFifty Daily, I wrote about how orgeat, the French almond syrup famously in the Mai Tai, is now being made with a range of nuts, seeds, and other ingredients. The story cites examples from around the country and we come up with a new working definition for orgeat. Check it out! Read more →

Three stories I wrote for San Francisco Magazine on the past and future of Bay Area brandy. Read more →