Author: Camper English

Yes, that’s four shirts, 5 muddlers, several pieces of glassware, uncountable pens, and more. Good thing I brought an extra bag to carry it all home. Labels: tales_of_the_cocktail

Finally my tonic water story came out in today’s SF Chronicle: The Evolution of Tonic Water In the quest to make better cocktails, today’s bartenders rethink each ingredient in a drink and try to improve it — from the cheap, mass-produced version, to a higher-quality version, to the artisan version, to the locally made artisan…

Another piece by me in today’s Chronicle: Bourbon with a Chardonnay chaser Over in Scotland, wood-finished whiskies are all the rage. Most Scotch ages for years in barrels that previously held bourbon or sherry, and recently several distillers have been transferring the whisky in its final years to barrels that held Port, Madeira or Burgundy,…