This was originally posted yesterday on Tales Blog, and in my haste I neglected to cross-post it. If you haven’t been following Tales of the Cocktail on Tales Blog, you should really start doing so today.As day one of Tales of the Cocktail drew to a close, the festivities fought back, refusing to go gently [...]
This is just a short note to let everyone know that I am still alive. I had meant to blog every day that I was here, but yesterday got a bit away from me.Tales of the Cocktail didn’t officially start until today, but the Ministry of Rum Tasting Competition started yesterday. I joined 20+ experts [...]
OK, so maybe I’m a little crazy for trying to squeeze in a rum review the day before I start my Tales of the Cocktail adventure. I’ve been called worse. Sometimes though, there’s just a rum that calls to you…that sits there on your shelf, taunting you, flirting with you with it’s curvy bottle and [...]
Just a real quick note on 2 things:1. I am going to try to squeeze in a rum review before I disappear into the Big Easy, where it will probably be a bit hard to do a solid review.2. At the beginning of the month I started a Twitter account and then promptly forgot about [...]
It’s getting close…so close that I can already taste the gumbo, feel the sticky humidity, and the soothing coolness of the next cocktail in my hand.That’s right, Tales of the Cocktail is nearly upon us. I’m so excited – and so ridiculously busy getting prepared for it – that I can hardly hold still. I’m [...]
In my last entry, I made the erroneous claim that Hi Time Wines does not ship to people outside of California. Mea culpa, I was operating without having done sufficient research, and basing my claim on word-of-mouth from a few non-Californians that had lamented that Hi Time didn’t ship out of state. Forrest, from Hi [...]
I’ve noticed over the past few months, as the number of readers of my blog have gone up, so have the number of emails and comments. I really enjoy this. I like hearing that someone enjoyed my review or is going to try a cocktail recipe I wrote about or that they agree that such [...]