Category: writing_life
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Alcademics Alert: Website Extreme Maintenance
I have recently moved Alcademics.com and my other sites to a new web hosting service, so you should expect to see more broken links/images than usual! Feel free to contact me and drop me a note about any- particularly after mid-October 2025 after I’ve cleaned up most of the site. CocktailSafe.org is hosted at a…
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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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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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2012: My Year in Boozy Travel
I decided to add up all the trips I took in 2012 and compare it to last year's travel, and it appears this year I was a total slacker. I took a mere 17 trips this year (22 last year), and flew only 90,000 miles in the air, compared with 150,000 last year. I visited…
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Alcademics Wins a Best of the Bay Award
This is turning into a pretty good month. Alcademics was just given a Best of the Bay Award in the San Francisco Bay Guardian. BEST LIQUOR LOWDOWN Why is it that we like to read about food and drink so much on the Web? In no other Internet area, except maybe porn, is the…
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Camper English Wins Best Cocktail Author at Tales
I'll post more when I can get to a computer (I lost my power cord) so long story short: Hooray for Me! I win the best non-book cocktail author award last night at Tales of the Cocktail. That is awesome.
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Big in Germany
I try to link to all my writing available online, but you really only see two-thirds or so of it. And even if you could see it all, most of us couldn't read it because it's in German. I am a regular contributor to Mixology magazine, based in Berlin, and for this magazine I write…
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Cocktails and Italian Spirits
Last week I spoke on a panel in New York for the Vino 2011 convention. The event mostly focuses on Italian wines, but this year they also offered a cocktail seminar. The seminar was called “Renaissance of the Cocktail in America: Top Spirit Professionals Assess the Role and Opportunities for Italian Spirit.” The panel was…
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The New Alcademics Banner
My experiments with ice continue. I've got a routine down to make clear chunks of ice and now I'm experimenting with freezing objects into it. As you can see I have some room to improve but I did make a groovy, if a bit large, new banner for Alcademics.