A little global pandemic won't stop cocktail books from coming out this summer! In this posting we have books coming out in June 2020 or before (along with a couple I missed from the end of 2019/beginning of 2020). They star some of the big names in bartending: Eric Alperin,... Read more →
A year ago I was researching natural food coloring for cocktails and stumbled across an instagram post that used blue spirulina in a cocktail. I added it to my Tales of the Cocktail talk on color in cocktails and spirits and have been seeing it creep into various food and... Read more →
I didn't see this one coming: distilleries as Las Vegas tourist attractions. The town is already host to the Las Vegas Distillery, but it's actually located in nearby Henderson. More recently the Mob Museum in Downtown Las Vegas added a distillery - it looks like there is a single still... Read more →
Sour mashing, typically used in whiskey making, is adding some of the yeasty liquid still waste (stillage) from one distillation to the next batch's cooking/fermentation. I previously wrote (from a post about souring at Jack Daniel's): "Souring" is not like sourdough starter in that the process' job is to remain... Read more →
While sheltering-in-place at home, I've taken to doing some (more) silly ice projects. For these I used the basic Igloo cooler method and placing objects near the top of the water line so that they'd freeze into the clear part of the ice after freezing. For the sunglasses, I rested... Read more →
New booze books on ice, French cocktails, bourbon, fermentation, and more. Read more →
Desperate times call for awesome measures. Read more →
Where to get take-out cocktails in San Francisco during the coronavirus outbreak. Read more →
Turns out, they were wrong about some stuff. Read more →
A few talks I'll be giving in Houston, Fort Lauderdale, Alameda, and Sacramento. Read more →