Cocktailians

Author: vidiot

  • 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…

  • Celebrating (with a) Manhattan

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    We don't really get into politics much here at Cocktailians, but the news tonight of Osama bin Laden's death did have me in an ebullient mood. I doubt bin Laden or al-Qaeda were big on things like drinks or any sort of libertine fun, so I thought a celebratory cocktail might be in order, and…

  • Celebrating (with a) Manhattan

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    We don't really get into politics much here at Cocktailians, but the news tonight of Osama bin Laden's death did have me in an ebullient mood. I doubt bin Laden or al-Qaeda were big on things like drinks or any sort of libertine fun, so I thought a celebratory cocktail might be in order, and…

  • Vote For Meeeeee!

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    Well, what a lovely suprise that was! I went to Vermont for a few days (reviews of maple bitters and maple liqueur TK), and return to find that Cocktailians has been named one of six finalists in the Best Cocktail Blog category of Saveur.com's Best Food Blog Awards. It's quite an honor, and we're up…

  • Vote For Meeeeee!

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    Well, what a lovely suprise that was! I went to Vermont for a few days (reviews of maple bitters and maple liqueur TK), and return to find that Cocktailians has been named one of six finalists in the Best Cocktail Blog category of Saveur.com's Best Food Blog Awards. It's quite an honor, and we're up…

  • Welcome, Wooters

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    Hey Wooters: welcome, thanks for weading my bwog. (And thanks to Scott Lydon for the linklove. Drinks on me next time.) If you enjoyed the post on airborne cocktailing, you may also like some other favorite posts: Terrible, Terrible (Hopefully Fictional) Drinks; High-Tech Cocktails; and from the same mad scientist, the Red Hot Poker; Seder…

  • Drinky Linky: April Showers (Not Growers) Edition

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    A few things that have caught my eye of late while I've been engaged in Interwebs persusal: Above: a friend is using fresh chives from her garden as Bloody Mary straws. kinda brilliant! Yes, the royal wedding is coming up. Yes, I've gotten lots of dippy awful-sounding recipes from liquor brands sent to me. No,…

  • Drinky Linky: April Showers (Not Growers) Edition

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    A few things that have caught my eye of late while I've been engaged in Interwebs persusal: Above: a friend is using fresh chives from her garden as Bloody Mary straws. kinda brilliant! Yes, the royal wedding is coming up. Yes, I've gotten lots of dippy awful-sounding recipes from liquor brands sent to me. No,…

  • How Is This Drink Different From All Other Drinks?

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    I'm not Jewish. And my girlfriend is about as much of a secular Jew as it's possible to get — she loves bacon, and she sometimes asks me questions about Judaism. (Quick! To the Internet!) But ever since moving to New York, where there are a lot more Jews around than the Southern burgs I…

  • Correcting The Times, or Thirty Seconds Over Google

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    Below is a letter I sent to the Times yesterday (with links added for annotation and clarity): Hello, In the article "Bar Crawling From Boutique to Boutique" by Michael Rovner on p. E9 of today's paper, there is the statement that "the Jack Rose [is] named after a friend of the owner, Jonas Hegewisch, and…