Here are 20 new drink books coming out this fall. I'll have write-ups on all of them on an upcoming AlcoholProfessor story, but for now here are the titles and links to Amazon. The Whiskey Sour: A Modern Guide to the Classic Cocktail by Jeanette Hurt Rum A Tasting Course:... Read more →
The California Department of Beverage Control released a flier about "Cannabis Products, Industrial Hemp Products, and Alcoholic Beverages" that I thought was useful - basically you can't have alcohol and cannabis in the same venue in California. The below text is pasted from their email. 1. Can I hold both... Read more →
It's time for the annual Alcademics drink book round-up! Below are all the books that have come to my attention in 2020. I don't follow wine/beer closely so there are only a few in that section. The links below are to Amazon and to Bookshop.org. If you buy stuff after... Read more →
I've had to look up this information a few times so this blog post will make it easier for me to find this information in the future. In the EU Vermouth = fortified aromatized wine with artemisia (wormwood) species. Americano = fortified aromatized wine with artemisia (wormwood) and gentian species.... Read more →
It's a big batch of booze books for fall! As typical, there is a big rush of publications before the holiday season. I have another post going up in later November of some books not available just yet, and then I'll publish my annual list of all the booze books... 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 →
In which Lance Winters of St. George Spirits analyzes the list of ingredients prohibited as alcoholic beverage adulterants in Florida that are the subject of a lawsuit. Read more →