Author: vidiot
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The Imbible
All of us cocktailians — and drinkers generally — have a common hero. More than Harry Craddock, or Jimmy Russell, or Donn Beach, or even Jerry Thomas. No, who we really should bow down to is good ol' Ethyl Alcohol, which lubricates social situations, makes us feel great if we use it right, and has…
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“The Old-Fashioned”, by Robert Simonson
I used to never order an Old-Fashioned when going out to a bar, because I never knew what I'd get — an inch-thick paste of smashed fruit goo at the bottom? A glass brimming with seltzer? (or worse, Sprite?) — and that was kind of like the Bad Old Days of drinks literature, when you…
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“The Old-Fashioned”, by Robert Simonson
I used to never order an Old-Fashioned when going out to a bar, because I never knew what I'd get — an inch-thick paste of smashed fruit goo at the bottom? A glass brimming with seltzer? (or worse, Sprite?) — and that was kind of like the Bad Old Days of drinks literature, when you…
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Uptown Showdown
A few days ago, the good people at Hendrick's invited me to accompany them on a bar crawl of Harlem, and having nothing particular of consequence going on that evening, I decided to join up. The crawl was to promote the Uptown Battle of the Bars, a friendly cocktail competition among 28 different bars in…
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Sorry, Slate, You’re Wrong: Two Different Fruits Don’t Taste The Same
Slate says you can use lemons instead of limes in drinks. Can you tell the difference? We decided to test them in five classic cocktails and find out.
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Sorry, Slate, You’re Wrong: Two Different Fruits Don’t Taste The Same
Slate says you can use lemons instead of limes in drinks. Can you tell the difference? We decided to test them in five classic cocktails and find out.
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Drinky Linky: April Fool Edition
Hi there! It's been a little while. Here are some things I've run across lately: Guys, I'm not sure, but I think Captain Morgan Taco Rum might be an April Fool; or whiskey toothpaste (but it actually did exist in the '60s); Starbucks Evenings sounds like an April Fool, but apparently isn't (anyone remember Xando?…
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Drinky Linky: April Fool Edition
Hi there! It's been a little while. Here are some things I've run across lately: Guys, I'm not sure, but I think Captain Morgan Taco Rum might be an April Fool; or whiskey toothpaste (but it actually did exist in the '60s); Starbucks Evenings sounds like an April Fool, but apparently isn't (anyone remember Xando?…
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Bittermilk Cocktail Mixers: A Rather Digressive Review, by Susan Harlan
(Ed. note: From cocktailian and friend of the blog Susan Harlan.) Bittermilk is a small company based in Charleston, SC and run by the team of Joe and MariElena Raya. They make three cocktail mixers: the Smoked Honey Whiskey Sour (the label describes it as “Strong and smoky with notes of honey and citrus”), the…
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Drinky Linky: Six Years Of This Place Edition
Happy New Year from the Cocktailians crew to you. And we turn six years old today! Happy blogiversary to us! Here are some things that have caught our eye lately: perhaps appropriate for the date, a look at the science of hangovers; over at Serious Eats: Drinks, Michael Dietsch shares his cocktail resolutions for 2014 – in…