Cask Strength 1:1 (What better time than 10:30am for a dozen whiskeys?)
Matthew B. Rowley (Rowley’s Whiskey Forge) is an advertising executive, former museum curator, and past board member of the Southern Foodways Alliance.
We’re are not drinking; we’re learning.
~ Francesco Lafranconi
10 July 2009
10:32am
Cesar Cestari, master distiller of Cabana Cachaça, was among the panelists joining Francesco Lafranconi for “Cask Strength 1:1” today at Tales of the Cocktail. The [...]
New Orleans Pharmacists
Stevi Deter (Two at the Most) is a cocktail ingenue living in Redmond, WA.
I am such an unrepentant geek that rather than go early to Diageo’s fantastic happy hour at the Presbytere, I stayed on at Tales to attend the New Orleans Pharmacists session.
Moderator Phil Greene was joined by Lorin Gaudin, Jay Hendrickson and Ted [...]
Tequila cocktails, fried chicken, live music
Lauren Clark is the publisher of drinkboston.com (bars, bartenders and imbibing in Beantown), a freelance drinks journalist and a former bartender and brewer.
Ho-hum. Just another slow night in NOLA last night:
Cocktails by the best people in the bar biz amidst an exhibit of Mardi Gras art and artifacts, plus live jazz, at the Presbytere. Tequila [...]
Chaos Can Be Good For You
Marleigh Riggins is a print production artist and cocktail enthusiast in Los Angeles. She publishes the blog SLOSHED!
The thing about Tales is that it is always a sort of barely controlled chaos. You begin your day with a plan: session, lunch, meet some friends, grab drinks, get dinner. Somehow in the midst of all that, [...]
Eating the Quarter
Cameron Crotty writes about cocktails and the culinary experience with Anita Crotty at Married…with Dinner. They are San Francisco-based writers, bloggers and foodies.
As someone who has been to my share of trade shows and conferences, I can tell you that the phrase “convention lunch” is enough to strike fear into the heart of the boldest [...]
My First Real Day at Tales
SeanMike Whipkey is the co-author of Scofflaw’s Den, an “online speakeasy of potent potables and other pabulum.”
1. I can sleep in more than I could at drink.write.
2. The best bar I know is free – but I won’t tell you where it is. And it’s been getting bigger and better all week.
3. I’ve missed a [...]
History of Saloons in America
Marshall Fawley is the co-author of Scofflaw’s Den, an “online speakeasy of potent potables and other pabulum.”
Today’s seminar, History of Saloons in America was a fascinating journey from the earliest alehouses in jolly old England to the modern San Francisco saloon Elixir.
The session was paneled by H. Joseph Ehrmann (owner/operator of Elixir in San Francisco), [...]
Mixologists and Their Toys – How Was It?
Sonja Kassebaum is a Chicago-based boutique distiller (North Shore Distillery) and cocktail blogger (Thinking of Drinking), as well as the president of Chicago LUPEC.
I wrote a preview of this session a few weeks ago, and headed into it with some level of anticipation. I was hoping to see some really innovative things, and thought [...]
Absinthe Spoons and Julep Cups
Matthew B. Rowley (Rowley’s Whiskey Forge) is an advertising executive, former museum curator, and past board member of the Southern Foodways Alliance.
The New Orleans antique store Lucullus beckons culinary collectors from around the world. The shop, at 610 Chartes Street, deals strictly in food-related antiques. And not your flea-market chic kitsch such as Aunt FiFi’s [...]
Tales of Malört
Sonja Kassebaum is a Chicago-based boutique distiller (North Shore Distillery) and cocktail blogger (Thinking of Drinking), as well as the president of Chicago LUPEC.
I imagine many cities around the world have a local favorite spirit that isn’t seen much outside that place. In Chicago, we have Jeppson’s Malört, which is a wormwood-infused bitter [...]
