Pineau des Charentes: an overlooked cocktail ingredient?

This is the debut post from Seamus Harris. Craig is a cocktail enthusiast from Auckland, New Zealand, who can sometimes be found in Shanghai, China. He writes Bunnyhugs.

Between now and July I will be bringing you few posts on France’s rich traditions in the areas of aperitifs and mixed drinks. Why this disconcerting […]

A Full Haus

This is the first post from Misty Kalkofen, a bartender at Green Street in Cambridge, Mass., and a founder and blogger at LUPEC-Boston.
As owner of Haus Alpenz, Eric Seed is responsible for the smiles adorning the faces of many cocktail aficionados. It started with Seed’s personal search for a spirit the importer fell in […]

Prologue to the Tales to Come

Robert Simonson is a Brooklyn-based wine and spirits journalist. He further documents his interest in these topics at Off the Presses.
This past week, I felt as if I was already at Tales of the Cocktail. Or a miniature version of it, anyway. From Monday, April 28, to Friday, May 2, I was the prisoner—uh, I […]

What the world needs now …

This is the first post from Chuck Taggart, a dedicated amateur cocktailian and radio host in Los Angeles. He publishes The Gumbo Pages.
Burt Bacharach and Hal David (along with Diana Ross and a gazillion other singers) would say that it’s love, sweet love … and they’re right, of course. Around our house, though, we […]

Juniperlooza is coming

This is the debut post from Lance J. Mayhew, a bartender in Portland, Oregon, and president of the Oregon Bartender’s Guild. He blogs at My Life on the Rocks.
“Gin, gin, gin. Gin will make you sin” my old acquaintance Dwight used to say, right before he’d take long draws off of lukewarm, generic-brand gin.
I spent […]