This is just a list of resources and stores from which to purchase herbs for making bitters and other cocktail projects for future reference. San Francisco Herb Co Frontier Co-op Herb Pharm Mountain Rose Herbs Starwest Botanicals Read more →
Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc) is a rotten corporation, and if you, like me, wish to spend significantly less time on them yet still remain in community with fellow cocktail enthusiasts and bartenders, there are a few alternative spaces. They include: Bluesky (find my profile here) that is just New... Read more →
Esquire magazine printed an article with the Ten Best Cocktails of 1934 - the year after Prohibition was repealed. They included at the end a list of the Worst cocktails as well. Esquire’s link to the story is here, but it requires a subscription to view. DiffordsGuide has the list... Read more →
I stumbled across this thread on Threads -it’s a history of the wonderful and historic the bar Heinold’s First and Last Chance Saloon in Oakland’s Jack London Square, as seen through pictures of its front. If you haven’t been, Heinold’s is a little shack built from the remains of a... Read more →
Clipart, as we know, if the highest form of art. In its role as a visual representation of a subject heading, clipart is not a picture worth a thousand words; it is a picture worth one to three words, max. Every week, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau... Read more →
I recently visited the San Francisco location of The Spanish Table, a store that sells foods and wines from Spain. I was there to look at sherry, but I spied some bottled waters I hadn’t tried yet. (This is exciting for me.) They had: Vichy Catalan - A super salty... Read more →
"The Drunkard has the Right to be Indiscriminately Loud" Illustration by Don Herold. From The Future of Drinking (1930) by Gilbert Selder. Read more →
Here’s a fun excerpt: The American Mercury 1924-09: Vol 3 Iss 9 CLINICAL NOTES BY GEORGE JEAN NATHAN AND H. L. MENCKEN The cocktail, once observed George Ade, follows the American flag. That was twenty years ago. The flags of all nations today follow the cocktail. Its fame has spread... Read more →