DOSA Fillmore opens on Friday, but the drink menu for the restaurant has been released. The cocktails were created by Jonny Raglin of Absinthe, and they look insane. I can't wait to try them. Batsman Martin Miller’s Gin, Darjeeling tea cordial, lemon juice & ginger beer, served over ice with... Read more →
I have a fondness for booze, as you may have realized, but also for shipwrecks and pirates. (Old pirates, not Somali pirates.) So I am particularly thrilled by the story of the SS Politician, a ship carrying 260,000 bottles of whisky that sank off the Outer Hebrides (islands off Scotland)... Read more →
You can get a free subscription to any number of booze-including magazines (none more inclusive than Beer Magazine, probably) here. It's through GoReadGreen from Zinio. Read more →
And you thought my Photoshop skills were challenged. Nirvino, which is a drink finding and rating website, hosts cocktail contests about every other week in San Francisco. The bartenders make enough drinks for the crowd, and the crowd votes for the winner on web-enabled cell phones. It's all good fun.... Read more →
I often forget that much wine is not vegetarian. They use egg whites, gelatin, and isinglass to clarify it. And while I'm all for using every part of the animal, I'd prefer it be used on something I'm not drinking. This blog has some more information on animal products in... Read more →
Last week I attended a dinner at Tres Agaves in San Francisco with Gabriel and Guillermo Gonzalez of Chinaco Tequila. Tres Agaves is hosting monthly distillers' dinners with a different tequila brand each time. Chinaco is a special tequila brand for a couple reasons. First, it is the only distillery... Read more →
Last week I went to a trend talk at the J.W. Marriott hotel. The panel was made up of a hospitality space designer, a marketing firm head, an environmental style specialist, and a beverage specialist. But I internally translated all information into cocktail trends, since that's all I care about.... Read more →
Liza Weisstuch writes about Drink in the New York Times, the Boston bar without menus and with "The Cocktail as Theater." Jason Wilson of the Washington Post writes about apple cider. Here are some bourbon food recipes and a brief history of Maker's Mark. Drink Dogma has some information on... Read more →