Alcademics

More than 70 cocktails and spirits books (plus a few on cider, beer, and spiritzes) published in 2019. Read more →

It's time for the big list of pre-holiday cocktail book releases! Read more →

I made more fun ice for Halloween. Recently I put some bouncy eyeballs into ice balls and froze a Halloween mask into an ice block. This time I put some big glass eyes into ice balls and put vampire fangs into other ice balls. The glass eyes were an idea... Read more →

Another silly ice project in plenty of time for Halloween. Read more →

Another ridiculous ice project from Camper. Read more →

For attendees of my talk on Color in Cocktails and Spirits at Tales of the Cocktail 2019, below are notes and links from the slides. Product links are to Amazon.com. For all the natural colorings to use in cocktails, see Cocktail Coloring - Natural Food Colorings to Use in Drinks... Read more →

A big list of ingredients that can be used to turn cocktails many different colors. Read more →

Anthocyanins are purple and blue food colorings found in many food products. Here are some of them. Read more →