The Aging Bartender

The Different Styles of Bartending

Depending on where you are, the style of bartending will differ. Why should the commoner be aware of this? Well, for one, you’re not going to get a certain drink at one place that you had at another. Make sense? The old fashioned you order at a craft cocktail establishment will certainly be different at

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  • The Different Styles of Bartending

    Depending on where you are, the style of bartending will differ. Why should the commoner be aware of this? Well, for one, you’re not going to get a certain drink at one place that you had at another. Make sense? The old fashioned you order at a craft cocktail establishment will certainly be different at…

  • Free Write Monday… Vermont National Country Club

    There’s some days when I have no idea what to write for this blog. There’s many things I want to write, but at this point in time, it would be very difficult to pull off. I’ve said before I have this book that’s been burning my brain for awhile. I haven’t got it all figured…

  • Bar Hack: Clarified Peach Calpico

    Peaches are coming in strong and will do so for a couple of months. Let’s make clarified peach calpico with them. Props where props are due. I’m pretty sure the original version of this came from the great Nico de Soto. He provided it for all via the instas about a year back and Angel…

  • Peach Syrup

    This one’s pretty easy. Equal parts depitted peaches and sugar, blend ’em, then pass ’em through a chinois and you’re good to go. Nope, no heat, ding dong. I try to use heat less and less with any syrups for the bar. It gives fruit that strange stewed flavor. Hey, if you like it, you…

  • New Cocktail: Peachy Keen (2.0)

    This one’s had some different iterations over the years. It’s always agave based. In the past I haven’t always been happy with it. This time around I really wanted it to not suck and I also wanted to use this stuff called Rooster Rojo, a tequila brand with this amazing pineapple infused añejo. They’ve got…

  • What the Hell is a Loquat?

    My first guess would be that it’s something weird like a date. Ok, let’s see what the Googs says: Rosacea family. Ok, well, not even close. Oh, and dates fall out of palm trees pretty much the way you see them at the store. Yeah, date palms, dummy. Anyway, rosacea encompasses a lot of stuff…

  • First Crack at Creme de Noyaux

    Get it? First crack? Anyway. Many others have attempted. I never have. For whatever reason maybe I thought it was too much of a pain in the ass. But hey, 2023 is the year of Noyaux and I hit it out of the park on the first try. For those who are oblivious to the…

  • Aliens, Cocktails

    Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you must have noticed an increased amount of UFO sightings over the last few years. In my opinion this is due to everyone having a camera in their pocket as well as those said cameras having increasingly better lenses. It’s been happening so much, in fact, the Pentagon…

  • Mad Props to the Ranfer

    This will be something I’m thinking about including in the beginning of The Seasonal Bar. The first part, I’m thinking, will be about my restaurant journey, and goddam, it’s been a long one. If you read this blog, you’ve been privy to a fair amount of my old restaurant stories here and there. Yes, they…

  • Movie Review: Sisu

    Do you like movies with gratuitous violence where the main character absorbs an inhuman amount of damage? Me too. Movies with pretty much no plot and zero romance but with scenes where there’s lots of clever ways to kill bad guys? If yes to all, then you should see this one. Also, it’s Finnish which…

  • New Cocktail: Hooked on Lee

    Back to some cocktail shit for a minute. But I’m also going to talk about UFOs. First off, I’d like to thank The Flavor Bible for this little number. Pistachio, honey, fennel work tremendously together, the missing ingredient, was of course the spirit. I had an old tin of genever in the booze closet that…

  • The Nannies and Me

    Anyone with half a brain will tell you life is weird but if they have any thoughts going on at all they’ll also tell you it’s cruel and beautiful at the same time. That it’s unfair, magical, and finite. I spend a lot of time in children’s parks because I have a two and a…