Month: July 2011
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What is Fernet?
By far the most famous type of fernet is Fernet-Branca, but there are other fernets on the market. So what is fernet, generally speaking? (Thanks to commenter Scott who wrote in on the "Shhh It's a Secret" seminar at Tales of the Cocktail write-up for asking the question that I never thought to ask.) I…
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Alcademics Wins a Best of the Bay Award
This is turning into a pretty good month. Alcademics was just given a Best of the Bay Award in the San Francisco Bay Guardian. BEST LIQUOR LOWDOWN Why is it that we like to read about food and drink so much on the Web? In no other Internet area, except maybe porn, is the…
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The Wide World of Pisco
For years, the only piscos available were the single-grape quebranta and the blended acholado, often with quebranta at its core. Now we can find all eight approved Peruvian pisco varietals and several different acholado blends. In my latest story for the San Francisco Chronicle I talk about the wide range of piscos now available and…
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Camper English Wins Best Cocktail Author at Tales
I'll post more when I can get to a computer (I lost my power cord) so long story short: Hooray for Me! I win the best non-book cocktail author award last night at Tales of the Cocktail. That is awesome.
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Tequila is the New Vodka; Tequila is the New Scotch in LA Times Magazine
I've brought up one side of this topic before here on Alcademics, but now both sides are in a magazine. In today's Los Angeles Times Magazine I have a story on tequila, looking at how brands are being produced and marketed – some like vodka; others like scotch. As our preference for 100 percent agave tequila…