A very rich bartender, that is! For $740, you can have this bag called the Meehan with which to transport your bartending tools just like PDT's Jim Meehan. Tools not included. Meehan partnered with the leather goods company Moore and Giles to design the crazy expensive but pretty darn awesome... Read more →
Repeal Day is December 5th. In 2009 we celebrate the 76th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition in the United States. So what are we doing to celebrate? Below are some events in San Francisco. If you know of others please let me know, or feel free to announce other... Read more →
The other week I went out to lunch with Scott Goldman of Cadre Noir, the importers of Combier liqueurs. Goldman discovered Combier while he was a professional hockey player in France. (Yes, you read the correctly.) The distillery makes many different liqueurs under it's own name, along with other products... Read more →
The other week John Gakuru, jet-setting (seriously his Facebook updates are from a different country every couple days) international brand ambassador for Sagatiba cachaca, gave a talk at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Cachaca, as we know, is a type of rum (as defined by US laws anyway) made... Read more →
The exclusive sponsor of Alcademics.com this month is Mount Gay Rum. Mount Gay has been distilled on Barbados since 1703, and today is a flavorful combination of column and pot distilled rum. They offer four bottlings: Eclipse Silver, Eclipse, Extra Old, and 1703. In 2007 I visited Barbados and Mount... Read more →
Hey, did y'all see the new Adam Lambert video "For Your Entertainment"? I sure did. As you'd expect, he dresses in all black with sparkly studded accessories and sings while people writhe around him. He also holds a snake. Less expected is the new symbol of rock star stature: an... Read more →
Yeah, I know. Cream liqueurs. You never want to drink them but when you do you realize they are *so* *damn* *tasty*. Then you store them in the back of the refrigerator and forget about them until your refrigerator is overflowing with cream liqueurs then you being to wonder about... Read more →
My favorite of the Glenlivet single-malt scotch range is the Nadurra, the non-chill-filtered, natural cask strength, 16-year-old expression. It has a nose of Dole fruit cocktail spilled onto a bed a straw and on the palate tastes like tropical trail mix, complete with the dried coconut, apricot, and other fruits... Read more →