drinkboston.com cocktail virgin slut Jeffrey Morgenthaler Drinkboy’s Weblog SpiritsAndCocktails.com The Bar Mix Master Has Spoken... The Mixoloseum Blog • Michael Dietsch of A Dash of Bitters furthers our education on SeriousEats with Cocktail 101: Juicing without a Juicer . He also got an article about apple brandies Ralph Lauren online and posts more vintage booze ads on his blog. • Alcademic’s Camper English is currently off in Mexico running rampant through the agave fields, but that does not stop Camper from posting. Here he is riding ATVs through piña fields, visiting the Olmeca Altos distillery, judging a worldwide cocktail competition in Arandas, and touring the La Fortaleza distillery. • Fred Yarm, the Cocktail Virgin/Slut, continues his tour of Boston. • Speaking of Fred, he has just taken over the hosting role of Mixology Monday and the next event is “Equal Parts” slated for September 17th! • The Whiskey Forge’s Matt Rowley writes about ice cream sandwiches and Mentos , rants about modernist cooking , and plots next year’s garden . • Trader Tiki’s new bar Hale Pele gets a visit from the Thrillist replete with video tour.
The Liquid Muse The Pegu Blog “… and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” In case you missed it, there is a big legislative slap fight going on in Tennessee right now between corporate distilling giants Brown-Forman and Diageo. Diageo makes George Dickel brand whiskey, and Brown-Forman runs a little micro-distillery called Jack Daniels. (Disclaimer: I happily own a chunk of Diageo stock.) The dust-up is over a new bill currently pending in Tennessee that would remove all restrictions on how distillers make whiskey that will be labeled as “Tennessee Whiskey”. Diageo is pushing the new law, and while their motives are murky (Dickel is already made in compliance with the current standards), please don’t think that this is some corporate ninja assault by Diageo on long-time tradition. First off, in a remarkably amateur mistake, Brown-Forman lists the wrong house and senate bill numbers! The Brown-Forman release glosses the current restrictions, but here they are in detail: They go on to add
Kaiser Penguin Thinking of Drinking EMBURY COCKTAILS [Download full 11x17 GOLDENCOCKTAILMILE]When I met Alastair Walker at The Everleigh in the Fitzroy District of Melbourne this past November, I couldn't have predicted that a week later he'd have come up with 12 cocktails inspired by the 12 pubs in Edgar Wright's "The World's End". As I sat at the bar chatting with him the film came up--he recounted going with a friend who'd gotten tickets for "This Is The End"--somehow the two guys had been talking about the two different, similarly named films, something I'd speculated must have happened at some point. Apparently it wasn't the ideal set-up for enjoying Franco, Rogen & Baruchel when you were primed for Pegg, Frost & Freeman. That led us to talking about the Edgar Wrightini and the stunt shot "The World's End" we'd done with Jacob Briars. The pub names do indeed work remarkably well for cocktails. We wanted throw a little spotlight on the artwork of the signs themselves in this project. 1 1/2 oz. 1/2 oz. 1 oz. 3/4 oz. Soda top 1 1/2 oz.