A Classy Dame and Cocktail Lesson
Many years ago, in a bar, far, far away an elderly lady taught me everything I needed to know about being a mixologist. It was a slow, Sunday afternoon in the middle of a hot July. I had barely opened...
Category: Libations
The Old Fashioned – New Again
The Old Fashioned conjures up an scene from a different era. A bar man in an apron with pockets holding all his tools. A gentleman customer with a fedora. A wooden top bar. Dim light. I can’t re...
All tequila is not the same!
Several years back, a good friend of mine who is also a liquor brand representative introduced me to one of the best tequila brands I have ever tasted, Tres Generaciones. This distillate is not your u...
MY BOURBON LOVE STORY
Bourbon was foreign to me until my first night in residence during university. One of my floor mates, who I would quickly learn was an alcoholic at a tender age, had packed a case of Jim Beam when he ...
A port in any storm…
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher. -Evelyn Waugh I am neither young, active or vain so it is only f...
Coffee after
CAFE CASINO ROYALE The other day rodent meteorologists predicted six more weeks of winter; a gloomy forecast for continued bad weather. When the weather outside has you feeling the winter blahs, inves...
A wee dram…and no more
Many years ago I discovered this scotch at a steakhouse in Las Vegas. A great run at the blackjack table necessitated the best steak dinner be consumed. In support of my digesting the 50 oz porterhous...
TEQUILA REVOLUTION
Tequila deserves a new look. Too many people have the perception that tequila tastes like lighter fluid. Good tequila is like a great single malt. It demands your attention. Next time you ha...
A CURE THAT BECAME A COCKTAIL
Often the best things in life are discovered by accident or come to us in an indirect method. The universally known cocktail the Gin and Tonic had its origins in the malarial jungles of India and ...
A Delicious Looking Libation
Malibu Bay Breeze 1 1/2 oz Malibu Coconut Rum 2 oz cranberry cocktail 2 oz pineapple juice garnish with a pineapple wedge On a recent trip to Mesquite, Nevada I spotted this concoction on a menu at a ...