Author: vidiot

The Times examines places that know how to make a real Martini, with emphasis on cocktailian joints around town. This seems as good a time as any, actually, to resurrect something I wrote a couple years ago as a comment on Czeltic Girl's site: Vidiot's Grumpy, Snobbish, And Cantankerous Yet Iron-Clad Rules of Drinking: 1. …

A couple days ago, I took a rye tasting class led by "LeNell" Smothers (of her eponymous shop, which is easily my favorite liquor store in the world.)  We gathered at LeNell’s apartment, where we found a dining-room table laid with Riedel tasting glasses, silver expectorant receptacles (somehow it seems indecorous to say "spit cup"…but…

It sounds difficult if you’ve never tried it before, but really, maceration (or if you prefer a 10-cent word to a 50-cent word, "infusion") is actually a fairly simple process. Wired’s how-to wiki has a simple step-by-step that should have you kicking the proverbial it in relative style this summer with very little outlay in…

It sounds difficult if you’ve never tried it before, but really, maceration (or if you prefer a 10-cent word to a 50-cent word, "infusion") is actually a fairly simple process. Wired’s how-to wiki has a simple step-by-step that should have you kicking the proverbial it in relative style this summer with very little outlay in…

Here’s an excellent and crazy map (click on it for full size) detailing the dangerous waters of the demon drink, showing how best to navigate your way around the Reprobate Empire, Blasphemy Gulf, the Indolence Kingdom, and the Lunacy Province, through Perseverance Bay and the Friendship Regions and into Abstinence Sea. Not that there’s anything…

Here’s an excellent and crazy map (click on it for full size) detailing the dangerous waters of the demon drink, showing how best to navigate your way around the Reprobate Empire, Blasphemy Gulf, the Indolence Kingdom, and the Lunacy Province, through Perseverance Bay and the Friendship Regions and into Abstinence Sea. Not that there’s anything…

It was recently called to my attention that I didn’t have a blogroll link to The Cocktail Spirit, a series of really great instructional videos featuring Robert "DrinkBoy" Hess.  These are well worth your time (and unlike this video, no nasal secretions are involved.) Chuck‘s been blogging about these for a while, but they really…

It was recently called to my attention that I didn’t have a blogroll link to The Cocktail Spirit, a series of really great instructional videos featuring Robert "DrinkBoy" Hess.  These are well worth your time (and unlike this video, no nasal secretions are involved.) Chuck‘s been blogging about these for a while, but they really…

The NYT tackles Don the Beachcomber’s Navy Grog.

Via The Independent Weekly in Lafayette and The Times-Picayune. With the right mix of lawmakers, the Sazerac may be designated the "official state cocktail" at the regular legislative session that starts March 31. Sen. Edwin Murray, D-New Orleans, has filed in advance of the session Senate Bill 6 designating the Sazerac, the first cocktail invented…