glittyknittykitty (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
Saaffron Gin, from Gabriel BoudierSaffron Gin comes from the micro distillers of Dijon, Gabriel Boudier, and is based on an old colonial recipe of the 19th Century that was recently re-discovered. It is only produced in small batches using a...
Oh Gosh! (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
For Mixology Monday this month we're keeping things local with a look at the Gin and Tonic, an English classic invented in colonial India to help keep Malaria at bay in a tasty fashion. Made with Jensen gin and Fever Tree tonic water, nothing in the drink comes from more than twenty miles away. Well, except the lime...
A Dash of Bitters (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Copyright 2008 A Dash of Bitters -- all rights reserved Shrubbin’ and shrubbin’ My fellow cocktail bloggers have been working on shrubs and gastriques for a while now. I don’t know why I’ve held off until now. Lack of ambition, perhaps. But I came back from Tales with a drive to try it out, and I’ll credit [...]
The Brown Stuff (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Last year I posted this . She's back. I have just had the SELF-SAME CONVERSATION with her! Thank goodness its Friday. Hendrick's , Fever-tree tonic and cucumber await...
Married ...with dinner (Free subscription) | 01/04/2008
It sometimes seems like Dean & DeLuca’s mission is to curate the world's most eclectic collection of foodie curios. A trip through the aisles of the Napa Valley outpost can feel like a visit to Ripley's Believe It Or Not! museum (”Oh look! Salt-cured hummingbird tongues packed in oil from Madagascar!”). Of course, one of the [...]
Married ...with dinner (Free subscription) | 11/23/2007
When DPaul asked me to tend bar at Sean's birthday cocktail party, I jumped at the chance. All the fun of planning and serving drinks to our friends, but none of the mess? Sign me up! In all honesty, it seemed a simple enough assignment. My only limitations: Neither Sean nor Paul is a fan [...]
Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/21/2007
A Belfast bartender has proved he knows how to mix it with the best - by being named the best in the UK.
BevNET.com Beverage Reviews Feed (Free subscription) | 10/24/2007
As the quality of cocktails has skyrocketed, cocktail mixers havent kept pace. Dominated by low quality offerings that show little regard for taste or enjoyment, the mixer market is defined by synthetic colors and cloying flavors, manufactured quinine, chlorinated water, and plastic packaging. Now, Fever-Tree, a line of premium all-natural mixers from the United Kingdom, has emerged from the mass of...
