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Here’s today’s story in the SF Chronicle on the state of cachaca: A wave of artisan cachaca hits local bars Camper English, Special to The Chronicle Friday, October 5, 2007 Nipping at the mojito’s heels, the caipirinha is poised to become the next Latin cocktail of the moment. With just three ingredients – a muddled…

A fun list on Kottke.org of (mostly bad) martinis, including Franklin-tini (for Ben Franklin’s 300th birthday) Mex-tini (orange vodka + tequila) Sex-tini (Asian sex tonic + x-rated vodka) Flu-tini (vodka + cold medicine) Red Lobster Butter-Tini (butterscotch schnapps + half and half + Bailey’s) Bikini-tini (low calorie) K-tini (sauerkraut) Red Hot Santa-tini (chili peppers +…

In Eric Felten’s most recent Wall Street Journal article, he takes on bad, and badly-named drinks. He goes into one particular drink but takes an extra sentence to describe the name. Popular in Australia, it seems, is a shooter made of Baileys and butterscotch liqueur. The drink’s elaborate and unprintable title vividly describes a “cowboy”…

In a very surprising move, classic Italian restaurant Kuleto’s in SF’s Union Square launched the city’s first all-organic cocktail menu. By me, in today’s SF Chronicle: What is likely San Francisco’s first all-organic cocktail menu popped up in a very unlikely place – Kuleto’s, the Italian restaurant in Union Square. The seven drinks on the…

By me, in today’s SF Chronicle: All bar hands on deck The problem with cocktail recipe books is they get all sticky when you bring them into the kitchen. The problem with fun-sized, plastic-coated cocktail recipes is that the recipes are usually overly sweet and taste terrible. Finally someone figured out a sensible solution- a…

Here‘s a recent story I wrote for San Francisco Magazine about Latin cocktail bars, and in particular Cantina. I am known to spend some time drinking there on occasion. Labels: bars, cachaca, camper_clips, SanFrancisco

Do not drink champagne. It is evil. Do not not drink champagne at Jardiniere‘s relaunch party, where Thad Vogler made seven kinds of punch, all of them with champagne. The punches may taste magnificent and restore your faith in the entire punch category, but you should not try them. They will tempt you to continue…

Roll out the single-barrel Bay Area watering holes snap up bottlings of exclusive whiskeys Camper English, Special to The Chronicle Friday, September 7, 2007 The Cigar Bar & Grill in Jackson Square in San Francisco serves a Manhattan you can’t get anywhere else, as it’s made with the restaurant’s exclusive 10-year-old bourbon. Harris’ Restaurant and…

In September’s San Francisco Magazine I have a story on Cantina, a bar I may have mentioned here once or two hundred times already, as part of the Latin cocktail trend. The story isn’t online, so run screaming to your local newsstand to pick up the new issue. Labels: bars, camper_clips, SanFrancisco

Bay Area home distillers make modern-day moonshine Camper English, Special to The Chronicle Friday, August 24, 2007 Moonshiners live among us. By day they appear to be respectable members of society, perhaps writing software to make your Internet experience run smoothly. But at night and on weekends, after a visit to the farmers’ market or…