July has come around once again and Tales of the Cocktail is upon us. Every year bartenders, brand representatives, cocktail luminaries, and a rag-tag collection of cocktail nerds enthusiasts bloggers descend on New Orleans for 5 days of intense cocktail education and consumption. Subjects vary from how to operate as a beverage program consultant (that [...]
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During Tales of the Cocktail this year, I decided to make a trip down to see Celebration Distillation – home of Old New Orleans Rum. I wanted to get an inside look at how this small American distillery was producing a unique collection of rums that they claim captures the essence of the Crescent City [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]