Cocktailians

Category: Seen Elsewhere

  • Our Sadly Sober Century

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    I’m stealing this quote in its entirety from jesuschris’ tumblr blog, which is an excellent found-picture blog with the occasional nugget like this in it: “It is probably not even an exaggeration to say that pretty much everyone in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was in a continuous state of mild inebriation. A Berkshire farmer…

  • Our Sadly Sober Century

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    vidiot
    in

    I’m stealing this quote in its entirety from jesuschris’ tumblr blog, which is an excellent found-picture blog with the occasional nugget like this in it: “It is probably not even an exaggeration to say that pretty much everyone in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was in a continuous state of mild inebriation. A Berkshire farmer…

  • History’s Heftiest Hangovers

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    The New Yorker probes the myths, customs and remedies for the hangover, and finds many of the latter to actually be varying degrees of helpful: …anyone who discovered a widely effective hangover cure would make a great deal of money. Doing the research is hard, though. Lab tests with cell samples are relatively simple to…

  • Robby the Robot Meets Mr. Boston

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    Mind-reading robot mixologists that monitor your alpha waves and mix drinks accordingly?  Self-propelled kegs of Sierra Nevada?  Lego-based shot-pouring robots?  Theremin-derived automatic toasting machines?  It was all on display at Roboexotica SF, which sounds like a seriously good time.

  • Robby the Robot Meets Mr. Boston

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    vidiot
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    Mind-reading robot mixologists that monitor your alpha waves and mix drinks accordingly?  Self-propelled kegs of Sierra Nevada?  Lego-based shot-pouring robots?  Theremin-derived automatic toasting machines?  It was all on display at Roboexotica SF, which sounds like a seriously good time.

  • File Under: Interesting But Unnecessary

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    OMG. Following a tip from our good friend Brian Kane, let me introduce… …the Whiskeyburger cocktail. "Beefskey" (ground-chuck-infused rye), tomato syrup, lettuce-onion foam, and mustard bitters.  Garnish with a dill pickle slice. Dear God, why?

  • File Under: Interesting But Unnecessary

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    by

    vidiot
    in

    OMG. Following a tip from our good friend Brian Kane, let me introduce… …the Whiskeyburger cocktail. "Beefskey" (ground-chuck-infused rye), tomato syrup, lettuce-onion foam, and mustard bitters.  Garnish with a dill pickle slice. Dear God, why?

  • -Tini Dancers

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    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. …

  • -Tini Dancers

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    vidiot
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    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. …

  • LeNell’s Rye Class

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    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…