TotC: Bitters & Amaros

SeanMike | July 29, 2010

I’m bitter about this post, unfortunately. When I sat down to see six glasses of gorgeous looking amaros I was quite excited.  Mmm, nice bitter, dark loveliness. Jacob Briars started up the session, talking about how really a lot of this stuff started with fraud, deception, etc., as people thought that they would soothe health [...]

Bartending Fun-Da-Mentals

SeanMike | July 22, 2010

Putting the fun back into bartending…I’m just going to sort of live blog it. Well, we started the session with Jacob wearing a horse head mask, and Angus saying he started bartending either 2 BC (Before Cranberry juice) or 10 AD (after Angostura Dependence). This is a disturbing picture of Gary Regan they put up [...]

Tales-ing it up

SeanMike | July 21, 2010

So – here I am, at the media room for Tales of the Cocktail, digesting my brunch and having a couple of Oxley gin cocktails while waiting for the next tasting session I want to do. WOOHOO TALES WOO! Sorry.  Had to get that out of the way. I’ve actually been in New Orleans since [...]

Congrats Tom & Derek!

Marshall | July 15, 2010

Bon Appetit has released a list of the Top 10 Best New Cocktail Bars and it is great to see DC’s The Passenger listed.  It is no secret that The Passenger is one of my favorite bars, period, and it’s great to see Tom and Derek getting mentioned in a list such as this.  Andrew Knowlton’s blurb on [...]

Tales of the Cocktail 2010 Preview: Bartending Fun-Da-Mentals

SeanMike | July 12, 2010

So there are a ton of cool looking seminars this year at Tales of the Cocktail.  My erstwhile colleague Marshall, unfortunately for him, cannot make it, but I’ll be blogging it, hopefully better than I did this year. Don’t worry – you’ll see these posts here first, but also on the Tales blog.  And so [...]