Author: Camper English
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Simple Syrup: It’s Good to be Rich
This post lists the spoilage times for different simple syrups. You can use it to determine how long until simple syrup will spoil. Simple syrup is never just that simple. Some people make it 1:1 sugar to water. Others make it 2:1, and call it "rich simple syrup." One-to-one simple syrup is easy to make-…
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The Count of San Francisco
Silly me, I didn't even notice that my story on Count Niccolo Branca of Fernet-Branca was in this month's San Francisco Magazine. Here it is. The count comes a-courting Bottle talk with the CEO behind San Francisco's favorite shot, Fernet-Branca. By Camper English, Photograph by Cody Pickens San Franciscans consume around 35 percent of all…
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The Third Annual Tales of the Cocktail Swag Awards
It's that time of year again, the time for the Tales of the Cocktail Swag Awards! View the winners from 2007 here and the 2008 Swag Awards here. This year instead of a gift bag there was a swag room at Tales, so you took a bag and walked around and filled it up with…
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History of the El Diablo Cocktail in Trader Vic’s Books
I was trying to find the first reference to the El Diablo cocktail recently. Mexican El Diablo 1/2 lime 1 ounce tequila 1/2 crème de cassis Ginger Ale Squeeze lime juice into a 10-ounce glass; drop in spent shell. Add ice cubes, tequila, and crème de cassis. Fill glass with ginger ale. Searching the web,…
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A Camper Cocktail
SeanMike over at Scofflaw's Den is making cocktails for mixologists, bloggers, and other folks, and naming them for those people. And now he's made one named The Camper, made with blanco tequila, grenadine, lemon juice, pineapple grapefruit soda, and Peychaud's bitters. Sounds tasty- I can't wait to try me.
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The Intercontinental Cocktails of Charles H. Baker
I wrote a story in this weekend's San Francisco Chronicle about Charles H. Baker's cocktails and their popularity, centering around the program at Heaven's Dog in San Francisco. "A hazy memory of a night in Havana during the unpleasantnesses of 1933, when each swallow was punctuated with bombs going off on the Prado…" This line…