A couple of months ago I visited Berlin for the Bar Convent. On that visit I hit up Lebensstern, the bar that won World's Best Drink Selection at Tales of the Cocktail in 2010. My quick write-up on the bar is here. I asked permission to print the cocktail menu... Read more →
In September 2010 I visited several sherry bodegas. Here are pictures and a few notes from Bodegas Harvey's. (At the vineyard.) (The white, chalky soil of Jerez not only seals in water to get the vines through the dry season, it reflects sunlight up to the bottom of the vines... Read more →
Not the sort of thing I usually post, but why not? There's a new Ripley's Believe It or Not book out called Enter If You Dare! , and it has some goofy boozy trivia. Beer Lake - pg. 188: A beer lake was formed in the German city of Kassel... Read more →
In November 2010 I visited seven tequila distilleries in Jalisco, Mexico. We were hosted by the Distilled Spirits Council of the US (DISCUS), as well as by the CNIT, the Camara Nacional de la Industria Tequila. Both are industry-sponsored groups with many different brands as members. Judith Meza, who works... Read more →
In my post this week on Fine Cooking's website, I got hold of Daniel Hyatt (from The Alembic)'s recipe for the Dragonwell Punch. I tried the drink at a Don Julio tequila event in San Francisco a couple weeks back and flipped for it. It's just light and lovely, and... Read more →
So you know how I've been working for months on a way to make clear ice, and figured out that the best way (so far) to do it is with an Igloo cooler? It turns out that someone else thought of that at least a couple of years ago. The... Read more →
Just kidding, it's not a review. So there is a new bison grass vodka called ZU on the market from the people who make Zubrowka bison grass vodka. It has a similar name and similar bottle so I asked what is the difference? They responded: ZU is produced for the... Read more →
In my latest post on FineCooking.com, I tell the tale of a recent Thanksgiving tradition: drinking Wild Turkey. I also link to my experiments with Wild Tofurkey and share a new-fangled Old Fashioned recipe from the brand. Check it out here. Read more →