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Hundreds of thousands of people traveled to Bavaria last week for the opening ceremonies of what is perhaps Germany’s most famous celebration: Oktoberfest.  While I wasn’t able to make it to Munich for the festival this year (you win AGAIN, Responsibility!), I was lucky enough to spend an afternoon wending my way through an excellent [...]

This isn’t a rum-focused post, but since I’m spending so much of my formerly free time at the Mixoloseum Virtual Bar (or whatever Gabe is calling the chat room that is rapidly devouring my life), I figured I owed it a plug for the new weekly event: Thursday Night Drink Night.Join a collection of rag–tag [...]

I’m a little tardy in posting this, but for those of you who couldn’t make it to the rum chat at Mixoloseum last week, the transcript has been edited, charcoal filtered, and rendered fit for human consumption.  You can check it out at the Mixoloseum Blog.  Thanks to Gabe for putting that together, it was [...]

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 [...]