A few years back I showed how you can make the Death Star ice mold turn out clear. There are more tips and detailed information in The Ice Book, and you should probably purchase a copy! Below are some more pics from a 2023 round of making more Death Star... Read more →
This batch of new drink books, mostly released in September and early October 2020, includes everything from non-alcoholic drinks to cocktails inspired by gangsters, real and imagined, global cocktails hard seltzer and other fizzy drinks, two new books from The Aviary, and a lot more. It's kind of a lot,... Read more →
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 →