Month: November 2008

  • Nerdiest Text Message of the Week

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    SAN FRANCISCO– New bar Gitane on Claude Lane has received delivery of a Kold Draft ice machine, according to reports to the Alcademics wire service. — The saddest part about this text message is not that it was sent, but that I was excited when I read it.

  • A Bar Contest You Don’t Want to Win

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    Eater SF hosted a "Douchiest Bar in San Francisco" contest. The winner, unfortunately for them, was Medjool, the rooftop bar in the Mission. Filling out the Top 5 were Matrix Fillmore, Bar None, Americano, and Zeitgeist. The comments on the original post are priceless. "It's as if the marina suddenly puked up it's best and…

  • Wild Tofurkey

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    It's almost Thanksgiving, and that means all the booze news is full of stories on what to pair with your turkey. Phooey. As you know, the entire staff here at Alcademics HQ (me) is vegetarian, so I don't play that game. But I do like Thanksgiving, as it's a holiday centered around pigging out and…

  • The Craziest New Cocktail Menu in San Francisco

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    DOSA Fillmore opens on Friday, but the drink menu for the restaurant has been released. The cocktails were created by Jonny Raglin of Absinthe, and they look insane. I can't wait to try them. Batsman Martin Miller’s Gin, Darjeeling tea cordial, lemon juice & ginger beer, served over ice with a mint sprig 9 Bowler…

  • Whisky + Shipwreck = Awesome

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      I have a fondness for booze, as you may have realized, but also for shipwrecks and pirates. (Old pirates, not Somali pirates.) So I am particularly thrilled by the story of the SS Politician, a ship carrying 260,000 bottles of whisky that sank off the Outer Hebrides (islands off Scotland) in 1941. The local…

  • Alcademics on Epicurious on Absinthe

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    Hey Look! It's my first story for Epicurious.com! Wahoo! The Top Five Absinthe Cocktails Now that absinthe is legal in America, what are you going to do with it? I share some information about absinthe and suggest the five best cocktails in which to use it.