Every Drink I Had at Tales of the Cocktail
July 26, 2010
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:
- Joaquin riff on seelbach cocktail
- Wayne Curtis drink with Oronoco rum and fernet
- Singapore sling punch
- Aviation from Simon Difford
- Daiquiri from bill Norris
- rosy sinclair by Jason Bram
- Valentinos Denise by Jim rondall
- Bryan Dayton serves a Mary Pickford
- Phillip Duff makes a Clubland
- Tequila negroni from Ricky gomez
- Brian miller makes drink with tanqueray dolin chartreuse cocchi
- Misty Kalkoffen drink
- John Lermayer drink
- Lynette Manero makes a drink
- Tommy klus Serves a Mexican firing squad
- Pisco drink from Aisha Sharpe
- Ed Hamilton actually makes a cocktail!! With Zacapa
- Jim meehan with a Cuervo drink
- Spicy drink from Wondrich
- Sean Muldoon serves a trader Vic drink
- Andrew Friedman serving a sagatiba drink
- Cable Car from Tony Abou Ganim
- Chad and Christie drink
- Francesco Lafranconi drink
- 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.
"a beer with my slice of awful but sobering pizza on bourbon street"
We have a good picture of you drinking this that I'll post on Facebook in the next few days!
Posted by: Frederic | July 26, 2010 at 01:00 PM
I now live in fear of seeing this photograph.
Posted by: Camper English | July 26, 2010 at 01:01 PM
...hey Camper...sorry I missed this event but I'm sure Maria drank enough for the both of us...heard it was a blast!
Posted by: Rudy Navarro | July 26, 2010 at 02:47 PM
Every Tales has to include one round of bad pizza and bad beer on Bourbon St.
Posted by: Colleen | July 26, 2010 at 03:10 PM
Thanks for the drink recap Camper ... now I'm even more pissed I couldn't make the event. Sounds like it was a blast.
Better start my event planning for next year!
Posted by: KeithP | July 27, 2010 at 08:00 AM
HI Camper, where is Ron Abuelo from? I was interested when you twittered it last week. It was great meeting you at Tales of the Cocktail. I hope we meet again one day.
Posted by: [email protected] | July 27, 2010 at 07:33 PM
Giselle, here's a Rum Examiner post on Ron Abuelo Gran Reserva from Panama. Enjoy!
http://www.examiner.com/x-15885-Rum-Examiner~y2009m7d22-Abuelo-12-Gran-Reserva-from-Panama
Posted by: Rob "RumScout" Burr | July 28, 2010 at 01:46 PM
omg i am realizing i missed out on a whole lot of drinks at Diageo Cocktail Hour. did all this consumption of alcohol result in a hangover the morning of?
Posted by: laurat | July 28, 2010 at 03:55 PM
Amazingly I didn't have a single hangover at Tales. I'm not saying I wasn't slow in the mornings, but never feeling too bad. One great thing about Tales is that there is always lots of water around!
Posted by: Camper English | July 28, 2010 at 04:09 PM
I see there was not a grand amount of PISCO at the event ? hmmmm... we will have to fix that..
Posted by: [email protected] | July 28, 2010 at 11:01 PM
You make me really glad I didn't try somethimg like this.
Rocky
Posted by: Nwvivant | July 29, 2010 at 01:12 AM
What? No recipes to go with this godawful list? You gettin' lazy or sumthin'? Just be glad you were not on a remote island with some knuckleheads, rhum agricole, and coconuts. Miss ya!
Posted by: LeNell | August 04, 2010 at 08:12 PM
How on earth you managed to keep track on all drinks we drink at Tales??? that in itself is worthy a prize!
Posted by: Tiare | April 08, 2011 at 03:25 PM