Oof. I’ve found that, when annoyed, saying (or, you know, writing) only those things which are verifiable facts until you (me) have built up a cogent argument leaves you (still me!) less open to committing fallacies or errors of passion. So let me start this way. Artisanal Cocktails is a new-ish (my local library just [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Scott Beattie’s “Artisanal Cocktails”
Posted in Random Drinks, Rants on May 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
MxMo XXXIX: Amaro and Il Cane Nero
Posted in MxMo on May 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Welcome to the interwebs’ most embittering cocktail experience! Hosted and bitterly themed this week by Chuck Taggart at the Gumbo Pages, MxMo is touching on a subject both dear to my heart and, I realized late last night, pretty difficult to do justice to. From my days as a line-cook, when my boss told me [...]
the oldest pre-made
Posted in Random Drinks, Rants on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In today’s Washington Post, the inimitable Jason Wilson writes about pre-made cocktails: those horrible, day-glo things in tacky bottles that, I have to admit, I like snickering at while I smirkingly caress my soon-to-be-purchased bottle of Laird’s Bonded. Funny enough, he fails to mention a summer classic that may be (I say “may be” because [...]
poor fred
Posted in Random Drinks on May 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes you run across a drink that is not sophisticated, even though it’s made with good ingredients, and not even really interesting; it’s just so delicious that you know this, this is the drink that will finally get your friend who always claims s/he “doesn’t like the taste of alcohol” to down a couple (at [...]
Hayman’s Old Tom Gin and the Emerson Cocktail
Posted in Random Drinks on May 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Stopping by my local Piccadilly on the way home from the library last week (that’s right, I like to balance my educational experiences with a little bit of debauchery), I was delighted to find out that they had started to carry not only the new (old) formulation of Noilly Prat Dry Vermouth, but also Hayman’s [...]
