Home safe and sound from Tales of the Cocktail, and I’m still nowhere near caught up in all of my writing…or my detox. It was a dizzyingly enjoyable trip that included a lot of different cocktails that are special to the city that calls itself “The Birthplace of the Cocktail”. I sat in bars with [...]
Rum
Tales of the Cocktail may have officially started on July 16, but for several intrepid rum-lovers, the festivities got going on a little earlier.On Tuesday, July 15, Ed Hamilton opened the 2008 Ministry of Rum Tasting Competition. This year’s competition saw 24 judges sitting on a panel to judge more than 60 different rums and [...]
10:27am – Finally got my wireless working so I won’t be using my blazing fast cellphone for this. I don’t think there were this many island shirts and straw hats at Jeff Berry’s tiki-themed Spirited Dinner. Jeff “Beachbum” Berry, Wayne Curtis, Martin Cate, and Stephen Remsberg. Behind the bar toils the entirety of what we’ve [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]