Tales of the Cocktail for Cocktail Widows (of All Genders)
Heather Gregg of Tikimama.com is an enthusiastic enjoyer of cocktails from Portland, Oregon. She is a big fan of bartenders and never wants to be one.
Or, how to enjoy the event your partner dragged you to, swearing: “it’s a lot of fun!” Except you didn’t envision spending all day in classes called “Create the [...]
Martin Miller’s Gin
Just three months from now, Tales of the Cocktail will be getting underway and thousands of people will descend on New Orleans with the aim of soaking up five solid days of cocktail culture. Among these participants will be more than 30 of the world’s most prolific and widely-read drink bloggers, who will be volunteering [...]
Mark the Calendar
Tales of the Cocktail 2009 is scheduled to take place July 8-12 in New Orleans. Now in its 7th year, Tales of the Cocktail is the world’s foremost spirits, cocktails and mixology-related event, and this year Tales returns to the Hotel Monteleone and other nearby hotels, bars, restaurants and establishments for five days of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
LiveBlogging: Beer Cocktails with Stephen Beaumont
10:40 Beer has been used as an ingredient in drinks since, well, the creation of beer.
10:41 Most of that beer was awful.
10:42 Biere Picon? The Northern French drink a lager with a shot of Amer Picon in it.
10:43 Biere Flambe: Flaming cognac in a Chimay glass, and slowly adding Chimay.
10:46 Note to self: [...]
Booze-a-palooza!
Misty Kalkofen is a bartender at Green Street in Cambridge, Mass., and a founder and blogger at LUPEC-Boston.
We’re here! After months of anticipation, the ladies of LUPEC Boston have happily settled into our comfy accommodations in the French Quarter. Not wasting any time, we’ve already hit many of our favorite spots…dining at the Napoleon House, Cochon, and Jacques-Imo’s and [...]
