Tasting Spirits with F. Paul Pacult

Kevin Gray (Cocktail Enthusiast) is a Dallas-based freelance writer and food and drink fanatic.
When a man tastes eight spirits each morning, and has reviewed thousands more, you tend to listen when he speaks. Plenty Tales of the Cocktail
attendees did just that at F. Paul Pacult’s Spirits Critics Workshop on Thursday morning. Paul led a group of groggy [...]

Drambuie: Revisited, Revived and Remixed

Kevin Gray (Cocktail Enthusiast) is a Dallas-based freelance writer and food and drink fanatic.
Tales of the Cocktail’s Wednesday start date is belied by all the booze doled our Tuesday night. With little regard for their livers, some attendees chose to attend Tuesday’s events, include Drambuie’s Revisited, Revived and Remixed event, which featured the Rusty Nail cocktail in its original [...]

Vodka: A Love/Hate Kinda Thing

Kevin Gray (Cocktail Enthusiast) is a Dallas-based freelance writer and food and drink fanatic.
Voda. Vodka. Water of life. Love it or hate it, you can’t bloody well get away from it. It’s lurking behind you, like that creepy guy on the bus. Personally, I have two uses for it: the basic Bloody Mary, or shots [...]