Author: Camper English
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Water Brands: Enter the Water Choice Awards
This August I’ll be judging the Water Choice Awards, a new water competition hosted by The Daily Pour. If your brand hasn’t entered yet, check out the website – entries are due June 30, 2026!
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Nonalcoholic Cocktails Need Texture
In a recent story for AlcoholProfessor I wrote about John deBary’s latest book on nonalcoholic cocktails and the tricks he uses to improve the NA spirits you can buy off the shelf, mostly with the addition of boosting botanicals and/or intense tea infusions. I’m a big fan of deBary’s work in the category. Read the…
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Put Chartreuse in Your Martini
In my latest story for AlcoholProfessor.com I share the trend of putting Chartreuse in your Martini, featuring bars such as: Read the story here.
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Saratoga Water’s Changing Sources
In my water tasting classes in San Francisco, I noticed that Saratoga water’s total dissolved solids jumped from around 40ppm TDS to about 100ppm. In the class we measure TDS by using a low-end TDS meter. The change came between one bottle (glass) and the next batch I bought (in plastic). I was wondering if…
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The Ice Book’s Third Birthday
I put together a little celebration collage. You can also see it on my Instagram.
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A Review of my Water Tasting Classes in The Daily Pour
Amanda Paul wrote a review of one of my Water Tasting Classes in San Francisco, for The Daily Pour. The Daily Pour will be sponsoring a water judging called the Water Choice Awards later this year. I quickly realized our host was one of those rare people who moves through the world like an almanac,…
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How I Clarified the Ice Problem – Imbibe Magazine
For the 20th anniversary issue of Imbibe Magazine (to which I have subscribed all 20 years, and written for a few times), Wayne Curtis wrote a story on my work on and solution to creating clear ice at home. Among these was Camper English. A spirits writer based in San Francisco with a background in science,…
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A Review of my Water Tasting Class in Coyote Media
Soleil Ho, the former SF Chronicle restaurant critic, attended one of my Water Tasting Classes in San Francisco and wrote up an awesome review of it for Coyote Media. The class was a particularly fun session, with two very opinionated bartenders in attendance. I don’t usually consider water in my daily life. I drink good…
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Dilute Your Own Hazmat Whiskey?
Lost Lantern independent whiskey bottler released their Spring 2026 collection, which was themed as a collection of high vs low proof whiskeys. The collection includes American single malts with unsmoked barley, Rocky Mountain bourbons with different mashbills, southern bourbons with different mashbills and malt influence, and rye whiskies with different ryes – and each of…