July 23
Journal Record:
Tending to business
Skilled bartenders have always intrigued Garrett Blackwood. (more...)
Los Angeles Times:
A new calling for a bold band of bartenders
Armed with a cocktail shaker and a dream, Marcos Tello is on a mission to elevate the profession of bartending. (more...)
San Francisco Chronicle:
Every cocktail needs a good yarn
When considering the virtues of a new cocktail, there are certain aspects that must be taken into consideration. Do the ingredients marry well? Do they harmonize, or does one spirit or liqueur mask other components? If so, there's no point to a hidden ingredient being in the drink at all, right? (more...)
Washington Post:
ISO My Summertime Cocktail
When I'm working (i.e., traveling and drinking), there are times when I feel a little like that woman in Ernest Hemingway's classic short story "Hills Like White Elephants." (more...)
Los Angeles Times:
New Orleans is drinking better lately
Reporting from New Orleans -- Anyone invoking the world's great drinking cities has to place New Orleans pretty close to the top. (more...)
Washington Times Post:
Cocktail culture is back
Fresh ingredients, better bartenders. (more...)
July 16
The Times-Picayune:
Tales of the Cocktail says gin
What I don't know about gin is a lot. I love a good gin and tonic or a gimlet on a hot summer day, but when the bartender asks me which gin I'd prefer, I'm always fall back on the one or two I know. So, I thought I'd check out "The Cocktails that Made Gin Famous" at Tales of the Cocktail 2009 at the Hotel Monteleone. (more...)
Las Vegas Weekly:
Pour soul
The Bartender’s Breakfast signifies the end of Tales 2009 and the end of a cocktail’s era (more...)
New York Times:
Tales of a Cocktail: Sampling Sazeracs in New Orleans
The five-day cocktail convention that invades New Orleans’s French Quarter every July is a way for the country’s mixologists to connect, learn, unwind and, of course, drink. By Day 4, even the most hard-core bartender wants the party to end, which is saying a lot. (more...)
usatoday.com:
Tales of the Cocktail wraps up in New Orleans
Asian-influenced cocktails, beer and bitters were the topics of the final day of Tales of the Cocktail, the four-day, New Orleans-based festival that celebrated and informed about mixed drinks. (more...)
National Post:
Five things we learned at the big annual cocktail conference in New Orleans
You can learn a lot about drinking by spending four days in New Orleans during Tales of the Cocktail, an annual taste-making and trend-setting conference for bartenders, booze marketers, people who write about drinks and civilians obsessed with spirits and cocktails. (more...)
Philadelphia Daily News:
Farm-fresh cocktails: Bartenders turn to fruit, herbs for inspiration
The next time you visit your local farmers market or produce section, don't just think about salads. Think about cocktails. (more...)
New York Times:
A Speakeasy that’s not so secret
These days, you can go to into any bar and order a “Manhattan” — but what about a “Bronx?” (more...)
New York Times:
Raising the bar: Cocktails come home
As the great cocktail revival continues to sweep the nation, bartenders in the thick of it are discovering a new niche: the cocktail caterer. And here we do not mean the guy in the polyester monkey suit pouring Captain and Cokes at your cousin’s wedding. We mean professional mixologists who take their ice and shakers very, very seriously. (more...)
San Francisco Chronicle:
San Francisco bartender pairs cocktail with cocktail dress
Many cocktail contests now require bartenders to pair drinks with meals or invent them on the spot with a secret ingredient, but a recent competition challenged mixologists around the world with a new pairing: cocktails with cocktail dresses. (more...)
San Francisco Chronicle:
Historic "Cocktail Bill Boothby" book
Why does "Cocktail Bill" Boothby get short shrift in San Francisco drinking history? Perhaps because the original edition of his 1891 book, "Cocktail Boothby's American Bar-Tender," had all but vanished. (more...)
San Jose Mercury News:
No more mojito! We're ready for a new summer cocktail
It's one of the divine pleasures of warmer days: backyard barbecuing or sunning at a patio bar, a cocktail in hand. But this summer, we don't want that cocktail to be a mojito. After more than a decade of downing the rum-mint-and-lime concoctions, we are parched for something new. (more...)
Seattle Weekly:
Ask the Bartender: Vermouth shelf life?
It's that time of week when we answer the questions you're too drunk or shy to ask... (more...)
July 09
Los Angeles Times:
Where does a pirate drink artisanal cocktails? R Bar. Really.
Aaron Barnhart learned the hard way that the artisanal cocktails on offer at R Bar on Monday nights are meant for sipping, not for pounding. (more...)
New York Times:
Cocktails dance on the head of a beer
“Beer” and “cocktails” are usually separated by a comma. But now bartenders are experimenting with crossover drinks that marry beers with spirits, mixers, even wines, going far beyond the shot-and-a-pint boilermaker. (more...)
New York Times:
A speakeasy for speaking easily
Since it opened in February, the Varnish has quickly established itself as a bulwark of the new cocktail culture, that flourishing strain of 1930’s tinged night life that emphasizes covertness — identifying outdoor signs are a big, uncouth no-no — along with fastidiously constructed vintage drinks. (more...)
GQ Magazine (UK):
Mixing it with the 'liquid chefs'
The most persistent rumour, however, and one repeated only recently in a blog by Andy Morris, is that I don't like cocktails. (more...)
usatoday.com:
'Bar chefs' try a fresh take on cocktails
They comb farmers markets and organic-food stores in search of the freshest fruits, vegetables and herbs. Only produce with the most vibrant color at the peak of ripeness will do, they insist.
Are they executive chefs at top dining establishments? Not exactly. They are the bartenders.
(more...)
Journal Sentinel:
Wine cocktails add sophisticated refreshment to summer
If you are willing to think outside the box - that's the box of Chardonnay in the fridge - you might want to give wine cocktails a try. These mixed drinks are catching on as summer refreshers. (more...)
Sun Coast News:
Kumquat cocktail has roots in Pasco County
Growing up in Darby, Drew Long had tasted his share of kumquats. He wasn't a fan. The tiny, tart citrus fruit may be the pride of Dade City, but to a little boy who tried it on a dare, it was just plain bitter. A few more tastes were enough to leave him with an ingrained bias against the fruit. (more...)
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