Category: camper_clips
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The Return of Ice from Lakes
I visited Norway late last year to see an “ice farm.” I wrote it up for Vinepair. The story I turned in was about twice as long (my bad) so I’ll also share some of the stuff that was cut out here over the next couple of days. For now, here is the story. Frosty,…
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Malort Book Review
This review that I wrote first appeared on AlcoholProfessor.com. Boozy Book Review: Malört: The Redemption of a Revered and Reviled Spirit by Josh Noel Jeppson's Malört is a famously disgusting liqueur from Chicago. It’s the drink that your party friends force you to try when you visit them, or sometimes the drink that a dive…
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Why Are Spirits Called Spirits?
I wrote my take on this subject for The AlcoholProfessor, where the story first appeared. Why is Distilled Alcohol Called Spirits? The word “spirit” has many definitions but most center around either the idea of the conscious self as opposed to the physical body; or an attitude, as in “the spirit of the movement”…
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From Salad in a Glass to Centrifuge: A Cocktail Evolution
This story was originally published on AlcoholProfessor.com. From Salad in a Glass to Centrifuge: A Cocktail Evolution Recently I was thinking about the early years of the craft cocktail renaissance, and how many of the drinks were quite… chunky. And I realized that we can track a lot of the progression in bartending via the…
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The Ice Book Wins Best Cocktail or Bartending Book at the Spirited Awards!
The Ice Book is the winner of the Best New Cocktail or Bartending Book at the 2024 Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards! This is the highest award within the global bar community. I am delighted! The Ice Book’s photographer Allison Webber was there to accept the award for us both. photo: @jbrasted…
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Aspirational Water – A Story in The Guardian that Cites The Ice Book
The reporter for this story in The Guardian and I talked a long time about clear ice, iceberg water, and bottled water. Not much made it into the final story from me (so it goes) but I did get mentioned in the lead paragraphs! Towards the end of 2009, Camper English achieved a…
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Has Luxury Clear Cocktail Ice Gone Too Far?
I am quoted in this story about luxury ice (from Greenland, sold in Dubai) in which I manage to become an advocate for importing glacier ice for cocktails, lol. Most of what I talked about in the interview was that we all choose our battles when it comes to where and how we support…
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The Moist Future for MSNBC
I was invited to write a story for MSNBC.com about the coming new normal of casual sobriety, aka the end of Dry January. I made a bunch of points about generational drinking habits, parallels to vegetarianism, and flaws and challenges of serving nonalcoholic spirits in bars. Read the story here.
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Monks can’t make enough of this famous spirit. Can an alternative from S.F. replace it?
For the San Francisco Chronicle, I wrote about the Chartreuse shortage and how some bartenders are looking locally to Brucato Chaparral as a stand-in.