Bar Hack: Beer Cocktails!
Well…I am twelve or so posts behind in the postings for the new cocktails department. Maybe that’s a good thing? Lesson here: Look for the silver lining in everything, even your own apathy. No one reads this blog and it hasn’t exactly jettisoned my literary career. I do love when people tell me they read
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Bar Hack: Beer Cocktails!
Well…I am twelve or so posts behind in the postings for the new cocktails department. Maybe that’s a good thing? Lesson here: Look for the silver lining in everything, even your own apathy. No one reads this blog and it hasn’t exactly jettisoned my literary career. I do love when people tell me they read…
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Movie Review: Kickboxer
The typical Hollywood fighting/martial arts flick where we are 100% certain the star will win at the end follows a certain structure where we see the protagonist go through a gauntlet of villains until the big boss gives him the ultimate test at the end for glory, usually for the hand of a woman or…
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Building a Better Mai Tai, Rustic Style
I remember my first Mai Tai quite vividly. Very young and in love. Staying at her grandmother’s pad in Fort Lauderdale. The grandma was not there, fortunately. After a little boat tour around the canals we took a nice stroll on the beach. Hey! A bar. Let’s go. Yeah, right there on the beach, a…
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Shallow Dive: The Difference Between a Syrup and a Cordial
Aside from one sounding much more delicious than the other…Remember, I live and work in Southern California, the most narcissistic place on Buddha’s Green Earth, where people ask for cocktails with no sugar because they want alcohol but are too stupid to order it neat with a citrus wedge on the side…Wait…Where was I?…Oh yeah,…
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Life Without a Centrifuge 4/5/2025
I know, I know, sounds like some sort of first world travesty. A gen Z crisis for sure if I ever heard one. I live without a centrifuge! The horror. The horror. But hey, surviving without a centrifuge is easier than you think. Two necessary, easy to procure items–coffee filters and agar agar–will improve your…
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New Cocktail: Robin Goodfellow
I am very, very far behind my cocktail posts. So far behind, in fact, that whole seasons have gone by while “new” cocktails are now extinct. Whoopsidaisy. I have felt not so enthusiastic about the blog as of late. Call it a combination of sleep deprivation, finishing a book, working on yet another book, attempting…
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Bar Hack: Stop Putting Canned Bean Juice in Cocktails, Make Meth Syrup Instead
Yeah, I just threw down the damn gauntlet. Vegans be damned, damned to hell. No more canned bean juice in cocktails please. Sorry, I know someone brilliantly called it aquafaba and a ton of people climbed on board this awful train bound for cocktail necropolis. When I see a bartender opening a can of chickpeas…
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Bar Hack: Next Level Lacto Meyer Lemon Sherbet
Meyer Lemons are the cool kid on the block everyone wants to be friends with. Sweet, less bitter, along with a less yellow, more orange spectrum sort of pleasant color. Typically the thing to do is a preserved lemon situation but this is too much salt for use in cocktails. What we can do, however,…
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The Gribiche Versus Tartar Debate No One Cared About
We did an event last night with Found Oyster and yes, I told the same old story I always do about one of my favorite times in life when I would do my Christmas shopping on Christmas Eve at the Prudential Center mall and finish it all off with a nice meal at none other…
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Fly On, Freebird
I have been sitting on this one for over a month, just contemplating whether or not to post it…So let’s do it. A quick Happy New Years 2025 mid afternoon phone call with my old buddy, Sean. A minute or so of catch up and then: I guess there’s no other way to say this,…
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New Cocktail: Wee Nip O’ Courage
The Blood and Sand is an equal parts cocktail originated in The Savoy Cocktail Book by Harry Craddock way back in 1930. I’m guessing oranges were more acidic back then because by today’s standard the cocktail is insanely out of balance and much too sweet with no acidity whatsoever. The drink was named after a…
The Aging Bartender 