Category: camper_clips
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All About Pechuga Mezcal: Meat Infused Agave Spirits
Would You Like the Chicken, the Turkey, or the Rabbit? Inside the Weird World of Meat-Distilled Mezcals
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What to Talk About, When you Talk About Armagnac
I wrote a piece for Liquor.com on armagnac – not so much on armagnac generally, but on how bartenders might quickly describe to customers armagnac and how it’s different from cognac.
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Vodka Made from Fog Water on Popular Science
In my latest story for PopularScience.com, I wrote about the new Hangar 1 Fog Point Vodka, which was diluted with fog-harvested water from San Francisco; most of it from beneath Sutro Tower on Twin Peaks.
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LASER STAVES! How whisky makers are using barrels toasted with an infrared ‘sun on a stick’
In a post for PopularScience.com I wrote about a technology being employed to toast wine and now whiskey barrels with infrared light.
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The Science of Barrel Aging on PopSci.com
I wrote a story for Popular Science on the science of barrel aging. The story was inspired by a trip to The Glenlivet where I tasted a 50-year-old whisky without any smoky qualities – but 50 years ago this and most whisky would have been at least lightly peated. So I went into the article specifically looking…
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The 99 Items I Packed to Give a Cocktail Seminar…
I gave two full-length seminars and one mini-seminar at Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans this year. For my seminar on Prehistoric Cocktail Technology, I went kinda big. This post is my packing list, with its 99 items. Ridiculous.
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A Brief History of Popcorn in Cocktails
In my latest piece for Details.com I wrote about the history and current status of popcorn in drinks, be they fat-washed in or garnished with.
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The Glorious Return of the Gibson
Over the past year I’ve noticed the Gibson popping up on cocktail menus, so I decided to have a deeper look and write about it for Details.com.