Two sad stories

SeanMike | July 22, 2011

Sad story #1: Last night was a Ron de Jeremy rum event with Ron Jeremy. I had it written down as tonight because I am dumb. Sigh. Sad story #2: Last year I was ambush marketed! No, really! You see, I went to this tasting on “Irish whiskey”. It was supposed to cover the depth [...]

Mixology Monday LIV: see you on the flipside

SeanMike | January 17, 2011

And it’s that time again – Mixology Monday! This time it’s hosted by Josh over at Cocktail Assembly and he chose the theme of “flips”. He said: You see, I figure this would be a great time to strategically use all this combined creative and crafty brainpower to build up a list of recipes to [...]

Hot Toddy

SeanMike | January 9, 2011

I’d had ideas for a variety of posts. For instance, I got an iSi Gourmet Whip Pro for Christmas, and I’m very excited about doing tons of stuff with it! But…holidays…and then, like everyone else in DC, I got sick. Blech. So while watching the end of the football games today I decided what I [...]

A Tale of Three Cities

SeanMike | November 1, 2010

13 days ago, I was frantically doing laundry and packing.  Suddenly I hit a point where all I could do was wait for an hour or so; I’d just gotten a five pack of bitters from Bitter End Bitters in Santa Fe, New Mexico, so I threw together a drink using a pineapple that I [...]

TotC 2010: Plate & Glass Seminar

SeanMike | August 7, 2010

Due to some confusion on my part about timings, I’d signed up for a mezcal session at the Royal Sonesta at 1 PM.  Getting out of the cab with John the Bastard at the Monteleone after checking into my “work” hotel (La Pavillon, over in the CBD, or Commercial Business District), I ran into a [...]