{"id":544,"date":"2013-08-04T19:16:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T19:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cocktailians.com\/2013\/08\/drinky-linky-summer-swelter-edition.html"},"modified":"2013-08-04T19:16:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T19:16:31","slug":"drinky-linky-summer-swelter-edition-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/?p=544","title":{"rendered":"Drinky Linky: Summer Swelter Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/6a00d8345190b469e20192ac5da1b6970d.gif\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jay says hiya\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8345190b469e20192ac5da1b6970d image-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/6a00d8345190b469e20192ac5da1b6970d-800wi-1.gif\" title=\"Jay says hiya\" \/><\/a><br \/>It&#39;s surprisingly <em>not<\/em>&#0160;too swelter-y in New York City at the moment, given that it&#39;s August. I&#39;ll take it, though. This blog&#39;s co-authors are about to decamp to triple-digit-temperature Las Vegas for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcona.com\/\" target=\"_self\">TCONA<\/a>, though, so I&#39;m sure we&#39;ll be in need of some refreshment. (Recommend any places? Drop a comment or a Tweet our way.)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s some of what&#39;s caught my eye around the Interwebs of late:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Camper English lets us know that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alcademics.com\/2013\/08\/reintroducing-noilly-prat-extra-dry-vermouth.html\" target=\"_self\">Noilly Prat is reintroducing its former &quot;French Dry Vermouth&quot; formula<\/a>, the one they sold in the US for thirty years. It&#39;ll now be sold as &quot;Noilly Prat Extra Dry&quot;, alongside the current &quot;Noilly Prat Original Dry&quot; version (the one that&#39;s sold all over the world). And their Ambre is coming to major US markets!<\/li>\n<li>And <a href=\"http:\/\/spiritsjournal.klwines.com\/klwinescom-spirits-blog\/2013\/8\/1\/new-stuff-from-pacific-edge.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Scroll down a little.\">Dolin is launching a g\u00e9n\u00e9py<\/a> (aka g\u00e9n\u00e9pi &#8212; a juniper liqueur) in the US. Can&#39;t wait to try theirs. I lugged a bottle of a small producer&#39;s g\u00e9n\u00e9pi back from the French Alps once and greatly enjoyed it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=til\" target=\"_self\" title=\"(&quot;Today I Learned&quot;, in &#39;net-speak)\">TIL<\/a> that there was such a thing as a &quot;mermaid bar.&quot; Katherine Dorsett Bennett of CNN.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/09\/10\/travel\/mermaid-travel-destinations\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">runs down her top five<\/a>:<\/li>\n<li>Friend of the blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/halepele.com\/\" target=\"_self\">tiki bar proprietor<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgreynolds.com\/\" target=\"_self\">syrup maven<\/a>, and all-around good guy <a href=\"http:\/\/bgreynolds.com\/the-man\/\" target=\"_self\">Blair Reynolds<\/a> has opened up a <a href=\"http:\/\/bgbarstore.com\/\" target=\"_self\">new retail storefront site<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>the <a href=\"http:\/\/cargocollective.com\/morackini\/Prohibition-kit\" target=\"_self\" title=\"alas, it appears to just be a proof-of-concept and doesn&#39;t seem to be available for actual sale.\">Prohibition Kit<\/a> is unbelievably cool. I want a stealth still!<\/li>\n<li>the New York <em>Times<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/31\/dining\/reviews\/blanco-tequila-the-great-divide.html\" target=\"_self\">tastes blanco tequilas<\/a>, and comes up with some interesting results;<\/li>\n<li>also in the <em>Times<\/em>, Christopher Buckley contemplates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/30\/opinion\/sunday\/booze-as-muse.html?src=me&amp;ref=general&amp;_r=4&amp;\" target=\"_self\">booze as muse<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>Wow, there sure are <a href=\"http:\/\/lacocktails.com\/cocktail-weeks-calendar\/2014-cocktail-weeks-calendar\/?utm_content=buffer3d720&amp;utm_source=buffer&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=Buffer\" target=\"_self\">a lot of cocktail weeks<\/a> around the world;<\/li>\n<li>I <strong>really<\/strong>&#0160;wanna visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.messynessychic.com\/2013\/06\/10\/a-1960s-london-bus-back-in-service-for-cocktails-fine-dining\/\" target=\"_self\">The Rosebery<\/a>. Craft cocktails on a Routemaster double-decker bus!<\/li>\n<li>One of our colorful mayoral candidates &#8212; or at least his pseudonym &#8212; has inspired not <a href=\"http:\/\/newsfeed.time.com\/2013\/07\/31\/introducing-the-carlos-danger-cocktail\/\" target=\"_self\">one<\/a>, but <a href=\"http:\/\/putneyfarm.com\/2013\/07\/27\/mixology-monday-lxxv-cocktail-the-carlos-danger\/\" target=\"_self\">two<\/a> &quot;Carlos Danger&quot; cocktails;<\/li>\n<li>What does your favorite fictional character drink? <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/50681\/cocktail-chart-signature-drinks-fictional-icons\" target=\"_self\">Here&#39;s a chart<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/recenteats.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Sku<\/a> does us all an <strong>enormous<\/strong> favor and lays out exactly who produces what whiskey, in the updated <a href=\"http:\/\/recenteats.blogspot.com\/p\/the-complete-list-of-american-whiskey.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Titanic work, produced in the face of vagueness and handwaving!\">Complete List of American Whiskey Distilleries &amp; Brands<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>Zing! <a href=\"http:\/\/thecelebritycafe.com\/reviews\/2013\/07\/zing-red-velvet-cake-vodka-review\" target=\"_self\">Five out of five stars for Red Velvet Cake vodka!<\/a>&#0160;(And apparently everything else reviewed by TheCelebrityCafe.com!)<\/li>\n<li>You can distill from anything these days &#8212; including <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/technology\/2013\/08\/scienceshot-shot-coffee-gets-you-drunk\" target=\"_self\">coffee<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>The Fifty Best tells us about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefiftybest.com\/cocktails\/best_bitters\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Got &#39;em, want &#39;em, got &#39;em, got &#39;em, want &#39;em, got &#39;em...\">their favorite bitters<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2013\/07\/on-getting-drunk-in-antarctica\/277793\/\" target=\"_self\">On bartending at the South Pole<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockethub.com\/projects\/23969-tarbell-cocktails-and-conspiracy\" target=\"_self\">a progressive-politics salon coupled with a craft cocktail bar<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><em>Departures<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.departures.com\/articles\/new-york-cocktail-bars\" target=\"_self\">says the speakeasy concept is dead<\/a>, in their rundown of ten New York cocktail bars.&#0160;(Jim Meehan <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mixography\/status\/362606200002580480\" target=\"_self\">begs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mixography\/status\/362609204378345473\" target=\"_self\">to<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mixography\/status\/362611645471662082\" target=\"_self\">differ<\/a>, pointing out that hospitality can take many different forms, and&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mixography\/status\/362621085142884353\" target=\"_self\">concluding<\/a> that &quot;the community needs to rally around diversity of concepts and styles and support each other.&quot; Hear hear.)<\/li>\n<li>Rosie Schaap says that on the other hand, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/14\/magazine\/preppy-drinks-never-go-out-of-style.html?hpw\" target=\"_self\">preppy drinks never go out of style<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/coololdthings.tumblr.com\/post\/22350658212\/cocktails-on-gorky-street-moscow-1941-margaret\" target=\"_self\">Cocktails in Moscow<\/a>, in 1941, as pictured by Margaret Bourke-White;<\/li>\n<li>If you empty <a href=\"http:\/\/colinrhino.blogspot.com\/2013\/05\/the-emperors-cabinet_7149.html\" target=\"_self\">this liquor cabinet<\/a>, you may not be able to walk any more &#8212; but it will;<\/li>\n<li>Karswell has scanned the <a href=\"http:\/\/andeverythingelsetoo.blogspot.com\/2013\/05\/beachcombers-spirit-of-76-bar-guides.html?utm_source=feedly\" target=\"_self\">Southern Comfort Spirit of &#39;76 Bar Guide<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>Beachbum Berry has <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.nola.com\/4500\/gallery\/the_marigny_home_of_jeff_beachbum_berry_and_annene_kaye_a_gallery\/index.html#\/0\" target=\"_self\">a really cool house<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mlkshk.com\/p\/RXVY\" target=\"_blank\">Best <em>WSJ<\/em> correction ever<\/a>; and<\/li>\n<li>the <a href=\"http:\/\/geyserofawesome.com\/tagged\/bloody_mary\" target=\"_self\">Bloody Mary Garnish Arms Race<\/a> has <strong>gotta<\/strong> stop.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s surprisingly not&#0160;too swelter-y in New York City at the moment, given that it&#39;s August. I&#39;ll take it, though. This blog&#39;s co-authors are about to decamp to triple-digit-temperature Las Vegas for TCONA, though, so I&#39;m sure we&#39;ll be in need of some refreshment. (Recommend any places? Drop a comment or a Tweet our way.) Here&#39;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seen-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}