Category: Tales of the Cocktail
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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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I’ve Been Distilling Some Things
Wine was (probably) first distilled into eau de vie in the practice of trying to make medicines and perfumes like rosewater and wormwood water. Distilling these herbs would make a preserved medicine that would last beyond the herbs' seasons. Today we'd call them hydrosols and essential oils. These were water based distillations, and it was…
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Color Talk Resources from Tales of the Cocktail
For attendees of my talk on Color in Cocktails and Spirits at Tales of the Cocktail 2019, below are notes and links from the slides. Product links are to Amazon.com. For all the natural colorings to use in cocktails, see Cocktail Coloring – Natural Food Colorings to Use in Drinks Cocktail Techniques book by Kazuo…
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Extracting Natural Color from Plants: The Freeze-Thaw Method
A simple technique for extracting color from flower petals or other plants.
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Audience Feedback on Camper’s Tales of the Cocktail Seminar
Great feedback on a seminar I gave this year at Tales of the Cocktail.
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Campari Production Info: Extraction, ABV, Coloring, and Fining
Processes and parameters used in production of Campari. Now we just need to figure out what’s in it.
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A Little Overkill at my Tales of the Cocktail Seminar on Bitter Flavors
The slightly ridiculous amount of tasting samples I prepared for a talk at Tales of the Cocktail.
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Bitter Ingredient Flavors and Use from Martini Vermouth Masters
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A lot of bits and bites of information about bittering agents used in vermouths and aperitivo bitters from some people who know a lot about them.
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The ROI of TOTC
In my latest piece for SevenFifty Daily, I asked a bunch of people about the return on investment of Tales of the Cocktail: How they measure it and how they maximize it. I also interviewed Tales’ founder Ann Tuennerman to get her advice on how to maximize the event as an attendee or small brand…
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New Business Models for Large Format Cocktail Ice Providers
Large format cocktail ice providers have been around for a while, but now big cube/sphere/spear providers are branching out into new shapes, sizes, making machines, and pushing into retail.