Drinking Poetic: The Banana Dance
I’m prouder of the Banana Dance than almost any other drink that I’ve created. More so than I probably have […]
Drinking Poetic (On A Christmas Wednesday): The Nutcracker
I’ve always felt disconnected from the Holiday season. While I grew up Catholic it has had been many a solstice […]
Drinking Poetic: Cascading Lines
This is the story of a drink that got away from me. As I’ve said before I tend to turn […]
Drinking Poetic: The Panic Order
I’m terrible at Vodka drinks. It sounds elitist, snobbish, and very hipster bartender of me but it’s a fact of life. I […]
Drinking Poetic (on a Wednesday): The Los Angeles Sour
The Los Angeles Cocktail is terrible and is a perfect example of a bad drink that survives because it’s old. Buried […]
Whiskey Wednesday: Repeal Day
With all the excitement, food, and celebrations that are crammed into the space between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day you […]
Drinking Poetic: The Old Fashioned
“I prefer things the Old Fashioned Way!” said every generation ever as things changed around them. The Old Fashioned is […]
Drinking Poetic: The Hemingway Daquiri
I feel a certain kinship with Hemingway. I’d like to think it’ because we both have an affinity with words […]
Drinking Poetic: West of Brooklyn
I’m sentimental in my head. I say head because I’m less emotionally sentimental and more intellectually sentimental, meaning that I […]
Drinking Poetic (on a Wednesday): Highballs
I’m a whiskey purist. Bourbon, Scotch, Japanese, Barrel Strength, it doesn’t matter, I drink it neat. For years I was […]
Drinking Poetic: The Ship of Theseus
I compete in a lot of bartender competitions. Not only is it a great tool for advancing my career […]
Open Bottle: Chartreuse V.E.P and #1605
If you haven’t noticed America is a little odd. We like doing a lot of things backwards. Like our current […]
Whiskey Wednesday: The Harmonious Hibiki Harmony
In recent years Japan, traditionally the Land of the Rising Sun could easily be called the Land of the Rising […]
Whiskey Wednesday: Kentucky Spirit Soars Like A Wild Turkey
Let’s do something different, different for me at least, and talk Wild Turkey and about a single barrel not chosen […]
Redbreast and the Irish Behemoth
For all the talk of the growth of Japanese whisky and the revival of American Bourbon and Rye the words […]
Orphans. Orphans as far as the eye can see.
Rhetoric: -language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience but often regarded as lacking sincerity or […]
