Author: Camper English
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Hey I wrote a Gin & Tonic Book
And all the information about it is on this page right here. No recipes, no tasting notes. Just a little history of the bitter highball from 1630 to today.
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Frozen Dinosaur Incubator Laboratory, As An Event Bar Theme
I made cocktails for a code developer event a week ago and was able to get theme approval of "frozen dinosaur incubator laboratory" for it. This post is just some pictures from the event to show off. The company has a dinosaur in some of its material, and I knew I was going to serve Old…
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Tonic Water AKA G&T WTF by Camper English
Note: This book is sold out! Some of the material is included in my book Doctors and Distillers, due out in July 2022! In the meantime, two books on tonic that I love are Just the Tonic [amazon][bookshop] and Something & Tonic [amazon][bookshop] The extraordinary and hilarious history of one of the world’s…
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Sulfur Control in Sherry Casks Headed to Midleton Distillery
How the makers of Jameson and Redbreast keep whiskey-ruining sulfur out of their barrels.
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Testing Out the Rabbit Clear Ice Tray
Testing out a new clear ice cube tray that’s hitting stores this fall.
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Why Sherry Cask Whiskies are Aged in Spanish Oak But Sherry is Aged in American Oak Casks
Answering a lingering question about the type of oak barrels used in Jerez for sherry exported to Scotland to age scotch whisky.
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The Return of Blue Drinks: A Story from 2012
People are all excited about blue drinks these days, but I first wrote about their return in 2012. Since Details magazine went away and the story is no longer online, I rescued this story from the Internet Archives.