Cocktailians

Author: vidiot

  • Drinky Linky: Hot As Blazes Edition

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    It's way too hot in New York City, so cool off with a mint julep or some other concoction involving lots and lots of ice. And go read about cocktails while you do! Here's what's caught my eye on the Interwebs lately: Frozen cocktails just right for a New York heat wave; the Belmont Stakes…

  • Drinky Linky: Hot As Blazes Edition

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    vidiot
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    It's way too hot in New York City, so cool off with a mint julep or some other concoction involving lots and lots of ice. And go read about cocktails while you do! Here's what's caught my eye on the Interwebs lately: Frozen cocktails just right for a New York heat wave; the Belmont Stakes…

  • The Triple Crown of Cocktails

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    The Cocktailians team traces the history of, and taste-tests, the official cocktails of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes.

  • The Triple Crown of Cocktails

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    The Cocktailians team traces the history of, and taste-tests, the official cocktails of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes.

  • Two Gentlemen of Williamsburg

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    This absolutely killed me:   How many bartenders will nod knowingly, secure that it only applies to the other guys and not them? (A tip o'the trilby to Audrey Saunders for passing this one along.)

  • Drinky Linky: M’Aidez Edition

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    It's not May flowers as much as May showers, if I look out the window at Cocktailians HQ — remembering to move the bottles on the windowsill full of various infusions — but it seems as good a time as any to check in.  The winners of Saveur.com's Best Food Blogs Awards have been announced,…

  • Drinky Linky: M’Aidez Edition

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    It's not May flowers as much as May showers, if I look out the window at Cocktailians HQ — remembering to move the bottles on the windowsill full of various infusions — but it seems as good a time as any to check in.  The winners of Saveur.com's Best Food Blogs Awards have been announced,…

  • Ultimate Cocktail Challenge Judging

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    The Irish comedian Dylan Moran has a great routine about wine: “There are two types of wine essentially, and everybody knows this. There’s the one where you drink it and go, "Mmmm, well that’s ok, can we get eight of those please, give us eight of those." There’s the other one, you know, where you…

  • Ultimate Cocktail Challenge Judging

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    The Irish comedian Dylan Moran has a great routine about wine: “There are two types of wine essentially, and everybody knows this. There’s the one where you drink it and go, "Mmmm, well that’s ok, can we get eight of those please, give us eight of those." There’s the other one, you know, where you…

  • Bulleit Rye Launch Party

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    I recently attended the launch event for Bulleit Rye in New York. This was exciting, as I've long been a fan of Bulleit bourbon — it's a spicy, "high-rye" bourbon, with a goodly percentage of rye (28%, which is fairly high for bourbon, plus 68% corn and 4% malted barley) in the mash bill. It's…