IMPRESSIONS FROM TALES OF THE COCKTAIL 2010

Tiare Olsen (A Mountain of Crushed Ice) hails from Stockholm, Sweden and is a passionate cocktail and spirits geek with a special love for tropical and tiki drinks.
Isn’t it amazing how fast the time flies during Tales? all of a sudden it’s all over…and you’re left full of impressions (and a tired liver)……..

NEW ORLEANS – Music, Food, Cocktails and Architecture

Tiare Olsen (A Mountain of Crushed Ice) hails from Stockholm, Sweden and is a passionate cocktail and spirits geek with a special love for tropical and tiki drinks.
So much to do in New Orleans, so little time to blog…and i think i’m not the only one who found it difficult to find time to write. Its [...]

Bitters & Amaros

SeanMike Whipkey is one of your hosts over at Scofflaw’s Den, based out of beautiful Washington, DC – well, okay, Arlington, VA, actually – where they mostly discuss cocktails and occasionally cigars and sometimes nothing of importance at all.
Like Michael Lazar, I was at the Bitters & Amaros session – but my notes got destroyed [...]

A Shot of Jacob Briars and Sebastian Reaburn

Michael Lazar (Stirred, Not Shaken), mad kitchen scientist cum bartender, is responsible for testing and tasting all the cocktail recipes and homemade ingredients in the book “Left Coast Libations.”
I previewed Jacob and Sebastian’s seminar on amari (A Shot of the Black Stuff) in the run up to TOTC. When I didn’t hear back from the presenter, [...]

Nemeth’s Ten Lessons from Tales

Nick Nemeth (Cocktails and Cordials) is a writer, bartender, and mystery man in Ontario, Canada.
Nick runs down his ten lessons from TOTC2010.

Some Post-Tales Reflections on The American Bartender of The Year

Ted Munat is a Seattle-based fan of good spirits and a co-author of Left Coast Libations, available right-the-hell-now at leftcoastlibations.com. He blogs at Le Mixeur.
My last day in New Orleans was Sunday, July 25th. That day at noon, being a few hours away from my flight departure, an hour past having checked out of my [...]

8 Things I Learned At Tales of the Cocktail 2010

When I first attended in 2008, I was a wide-eyed rum enthusiast with no idea what to expect. I had never attended Tales before – in fact, other than Ed Hamilton via his Ministry of Rum, I didn’t know a single person that was attending. Five days and several hundred rummy beverages later, I had a bevvy of new friends to drink with all over the world.

This has been my third straight year attending Tales of the Cocktail. Every year presents me with new experiences, new faces and a lot of new information (and some cocktails, I’m pretty sure there were cocktails too).

Tales 2010 Summary — Darcy O’Neil

At the Art of Drink, Darcy sums up his Tales 2010 experiences:
Wow, what a week. This year was bigger and better than last year. In fact there were so many people I wanted to have a drink with that there just was enough time. But I did manage to drink my fair share and chat [...]

The Mysteries and Secrets of Distilling in Cognac, the Cellar Master’s Essential Work and Classic Cognac

Michael Dietsch is a bartender between gigs, a writer with an attitude, and an editor with a fast red pen. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and blogs about spirits and cocktails at A Dash of Bitters.
This one’s quite a mouthful… Sunday morning, bleary-eyed and unhappy to be awake, I stumbled to the Royal Sonesta [...]

What Camper Drank

Exactly how many cocktails does one consume at Tales of the Cocktail? Camper English from Alcademics sought to answer that question by sending a Twitter message every time he had one. Now he’s compiled them to find the answer: Up to 35 drinks in a single day! Read this post to learn what they were.

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