Alcademics

Month: June 2018

  • Three East Bay Drinking Itineraries in the July Issue of San Francisco Magazine

    DgOUVVTVQAAs4ddFor my latest story in San Francisco Magazine, I wrote about three drinking itineraries in the East Bay. The five-page story is called The New Beverage Belt and it involves three tours:

    • Cocktail bars in Uptown Oakland, including the just-opened Hello Stranger and forthcoming Here's How. 
    • Tasting Rooms of Alameda, with seven stops including the Hangar One and St. George Spirits distilleries.
    • Day Drinking in Jack London Square, which was 100% an excuse to write about Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon – and happily they took the photos of the bar to accompany the story. 

    I did a lot of drinking as research for the story, so out of respect for my liver go out and pick up a copy of the magazine or read it online!

    Sf mag story

  • More Ice Ball Shenanigans

    If you're not following alcademics on Instagram… well you really should be. I've been having some fun over there freezing stuff into ice balls. I'm using the same technique you've seen here on Alcademics before – a thermos and an upside-down ice ball mold. 

    Lately I did a couple fun ones with money, which I'd never serve to a real person because money is filthy.

     

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    I did a few with jalapenos for one event, and some with mint for another event. (Also some blue ones for it.) 

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    And for gay pride, I made some ones with rainbow flags. I printed out and laminated some rainbow flags, and then froze those inside the ice spheres. 

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    If you're looking for more amazing ice projects, check out the Index of Ice Experiments.

     

    Any suggestions on other things to freeze inside clear ice balls?