Category: cocktails
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The Wide World of the Ward Eight
In my latest column for FineCooking.com, I talk about how the Ward Eight cocktail is everywhere these days. You know how you learn the definition of a word and then suddenly you keep hearing that word everywhere? Over the past month it has been that way with me and the Ward Eight cocktail. I had…
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Bartenders Dosing Drinks with Acid (Phosphate)
My latest post for the Details.com Daily Blog is about acid phosphate and its popularity in cocktails. I mention Darcy O'Neil's Fix the Pumps book, of course, as well as his line of acid phosphate and lactart. I name-check a few bars serving acid phosphate drinks as well, including: The Ice Cream Bar in San…
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Cocktail Trend Predictions for 2013 on the Details Blog
In my latest story for Details.com, I wrote a list of five trends for cocktails in 2013. The include low-alcohol cocktails, the butcher and bartender connection, carbonated cocktails, bulk cocktails (punches, bottles, and cocktails on tap), and new molecular techniques. Check it out! Related articles Drink Like Hemingway With Philip Greene's New Book Book Review:…
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A Huge Interview with Camper English on Eater.com
I've got something to say! Apparently. Eater.com did a big interview with me about the SF cocktail scene and now it has gone live. I blab about everything from the lack of molecular mixology in San Francisco to the death of muddling to the rise of carbonated cocktails. It goes on and on. Photo by…
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A Quick Bit on Flips on Details.com
My most recent story for Details.com is about flips: drinks made with whole eggs. In the piece I talk about silver and golden fizzes, noggs, and a few places to find flips around the country. Go check it out!
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Summer Whisky Cocktails in Whisky Advocate Magazine
Holy Smokes! They put my story on Summer Whisky Cocktails on the cover of Whisky Advocate Magazine! Inside it's 7 pages of deliciousness, with recipes brought to you by: Alan Akwai Brendan Dorr Jon Santer David Delaney, Jr. Larry Rice Sam Ross Kevin Diedrich Kevin Kelpe Mike Ryan There are swizzles and punches and…
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A Few Thousand Words on the Aviation, In German
In the current issue of Mixology Magazine, the premier German-language bartending magazine, I have a big story about the Aviation cocktail. It covers a bunch of the history of the cocktail – how it originally had creme de violette and then the recipe was probably copied incorrectly and it was not made the right way…