Category: camper_clips
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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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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.
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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.