Category: cocktails
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A Camper Cocktail
SeanMike over at Scofflaw's Den is making cocktails for mixologists, bloggers, and other folks, and naming them for those people. And now he's made one named The Camper, made with blanco tequila, grenadine, lemon juice, pineapple grapefruit soda, and Peychaud's bitters. Sounds tasty- I can't wait to try me.
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The Intercontinental Cocktails of Charles H. Baker
I wrote a story in this weekend's San Francisco Chronicle about Charles H. Baker's cocktails and their popularity, centering around the program at Heaven's Dog in San Francisco. "A hazy memory of a night in Havana during the unpleasantnesses of 1933, when each swallow was punctuated with bombs going off on the Prado…" This line…
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Top 5 Beer Cocktails on Epicurious.com
Hey look, I wrote another story for Epicurious.com! It's the Top 5 Beer Cocktails, including ones you know like the Shandy and Black Velvet, plus ones that are probably new to you: The Stout Diplomat by Yanni Kehagiaras The Happy Mich by the Tippling Brothers The Cure by Gina Chersevani My previous story for Epicurious…
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How Sweetened It Is
Here's the second of my two stories in the San Francisco Chronicle this weekend. Spirits: Bartenders find new ways to sweeten the deal Camper English, Special to The ChronicleFriday, April 10, 2009 Nearly all cocktails contain a sweetening agent, the simplest of which is raw sugar or simple syrup. Other, newer options include ginger, elderflower,…
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Sharing the Sherry Shrub
In Gary Regan's weekly cocktail newsletter, he shares with us Neyah White's recipe that won the Vinos de Jerez cocktail competition. The recipe is below. It sounds easy because it's only two ingredients, but naturally one of those two ingredients involves seven other ingredients and takes two weeks to make. To see the recipes for…