Martin Cate, co-creator of Forbidden Island Tiki Bar in Alameda, judge in the Ministry of Rum Tasting Competitions, rum connoisseur, and all-around awesome guy is opening a new bar this Fall in San Francisco. I haven’t yet written a great deal about bars here (although look for that to change in the coming months), and [...]
If I wanted to get started with rum, how would I do that? I guess it’s not too surprising that this is a question I field rather frequently. People find out that you run a rum blog, hang out in virtual communities like the Ministry of Rum Forums, attend rum conferences, and boast a personal [...]
Somewhere along the way I seem to have completely lost my mind. While I’ve been participating in Mixology Monday – an online monthly cocktail party hosted by a different site each month – for over a year now, I’ve not yet had the moxie (lack of sanity?) to try and host one. Unfortunately for me, [...]
It’s Mixology Monday again, and this month’s topic was a tough one for me. I missed last month’s MxMo and swore I wouldn’t miss the May MxMo, hosted by Chuck Taggart over at the Gumbo Pages. Of course, when I made that plan I wasn’t considering the fact that on the eve of the deadline [...]
Tomorrow, May 12, Wayne Curtis will be dropping in at the Mixoloseum Chat Room to spend some time, well, chatting. You may remember Wayne as the author of …and a bottle of rum (one of my all-time favorite books about my all-time favorite spirit), as well as his many features for The Atlantic and a [...]
You would think that after a Mixoloseum Thursday Drink Night sponsored by Mount Gay Rum, I would have posted numerous cocktail recipes immediately following the event. I confess that I’ve been a bit remiss in taking so long to get to some, but finally, here is the first in a series of cocktails created at [...]
Most people aren’t familiar with the American Distilling Institute (ADI), an organization dedicated to furthering the cause of craft distilling in the US. The Institute allows smaller distilleries – both new and old – to cooperate and share information, to help further the science of distilling, and to (hopefully) continue the evolution of American Spirits.Every [...]