Aftermath
Charles & Ted Munat are Seattle-based brothers and ardent fans of good spirits. They blog at Le Mixeur.
The Munat Bros. are nothing if not the sad, pathetic losers hanging out, drink in hand, long after everyone else has called it a night, swaying to the beat of some non-existent music, calling out, “Where’d everybody go [...]
Meet me at the Carousel
Anita & Cameron Crotty are San Francisco-based writers, bloggers and foodies. They blog about cocktails and the culinary experience at Married…With Dinner.
Before, during, and after official Tales of the Cocktail sessions (and, in fact, well into the wee hours) one of the best places to find participants is around the Monteleone’s famed Carousel Bar, where [...]
Matt Robold is an Orange County, California-based blogger with a passion for rum, an interest he indulges on his blog Rum Dood.
Tales of the Cocktail may have officially started on July 16, but for several intrepid rum-lovers, the festivities got going on a little earlier.
On Tuesday, July 15, Ed Hamilton opened the 2008 Ministry of [...]
A Tales Retrospective
Darcy O’Neil is a bartender and chemist in London, Ontario. He publishes The Art of Drink.
As soon as Tales of the Cocktail gets started, it seems it is over. As a friend said, too many drinks makes the nights go by fast. But, most people used their time very well and made the most of [...]
Swag-Off ‘08
Since I was deep in the thick of competition and couldn’t take notes, I enlisted the services of Portland, Oregon food writer Ms. Lizzy Caston. Following is her report.
What does a group of creative bartenders do with bags full of promotional alcohol samples, mixers and condiments? Hold a contest to determine who can make [...]
The Flowing Bowl: A Recap of the Precap
What was left of the crowd (this is to mean what tattered remains remained of those who had not yet departed New Orleans, so in a sense to mean what was left of what was left of the crowd…I’ve lost you haven’t I) showed up this “morning” (yes, 12:30pm is definitely morning, in fact early [...]
Self Promotions and Night’s Description
Charles & Ted Munat are Seattle-based brothers and ardent fans of good spirits. They blog at Le Mixeur.
As I sat more or less comfortably among the rows of the Vieux Carre room’s denizens, watching Robert Hess, Paul Clarke, Erik Ellestad, and some Canadian media whore named Boudreau talk about homemade cocktail ingredients, I started to [...]
Tales of TotC, Day 3 (and 4, and 5)
Marleigh Riggins is a print production artist and cocktail enthusiast in Los Angeles. She publishes the blog SLOSHED!
The huge amounts of alcohol that one imbibes during Tales has turned me into a photo blogger this week. The short version of the last three days goes like this:
We started the day with a hilarious panel called [...]
Disregarding advice (for some reason)
Guest blogger Derek Bagley is assistant editor of Southern Breeze Magazine.
I went to the Happy Hour with my wife, Beth, Thursday evening after a great day of events, beginning with the fantastic To Have and Have Not: The Hemingway Bartender’s Companion, followed by two-Sazerac lunch at the Napoleon House and then a tasting room with [...]
Overheard in the French Quarter*
A tour guide to his charges: “So, the first thing we’ll do is stop off for old-man drinks–Sazeracs, Manhattans, and so on.”
*Outside Irene’s.
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