Below are bottle shots of mostly new- and a few just new to me- spirits products that have come onto the market in the last month. There were a lot this month as many brands release stuff just before the holidays. These are from my Instagram account and you can... Read more →
In 2021 I hosted a group of bartenders to taste a big batch of nonalcoholic spirits. Read that write-up here. Since then, many new brands have come onto the market or been newly imported into the USA. I lined up 17 expressions and tasted them. Fifteen are pictured below, plus... Read more →
Below are bottle shots of mostly new- and a few just new to me- spirits products that have come onto the market in recent months. These are from my Instagram account and you can get more information about each of them there. Read more →
So many drink books are coming out before the end of 2022 I decided to make a list of them. Links are to Amazon and they earn me an affiliate fee. The Little Book of Aperitifs: 50 Classic Cocktails and Delightful Drinks Cheer: A Liquid Gold Holiday Drinking Guide The... Read more →
Wine was (probably) first distilled into eau de vie in the practice of trying to make medicines and perfumes like rosewater and wormwood water. Distilling these herbs would make a preserved medicine that would last beyond the herbs' seasons. Today we'd call them hydrosols and essential oils. These were water... Read more →
It's been way too long since I did a new booze round-up. These images are all from my Instagram page, and how I'm largely covering new products hitting the market. Read more →
Bar Iris, the Japanese-influenced cocktail bar in Russian Hill, currently lists 7 cocktails on the menu. The drinks, including Okinawa (rum, okinawa yam, calamansi, oat milk, plum) that I wrote about for Eater, are the result of tons of prep work for the ingredients before service. A lot of the... Read more →
There are now at least three brands of nonalcoholic cocktail bitters on the market. It was formerly commonly believed that Fee Brothers bitters were nonalcoholic, but that is not true: they have a glycerin base, but the flavor extracts used in each have alcohol. Their bitters range in overall alcohol... Read more →