Tag: cocktails

• 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 since I identified as such. I’ve also spent the past 10+ years living 2,500+ miles from the family and friends I grew up with. As such when the holidays roll around I often find myself latching on […]

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  December 26, 2019

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  Chestnuts, cocktail recipe, cocktails, Drinking Poetic, Elijah Craig, The Nutcracker, Whiskey Wednesday

• 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 every drink into a brown, bitter, and stirred variation on a theme. It should therefore come as no surprise that I’ve been trying to play around with some version of a hopped Old Fashioned style drink for […]

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  July 17, 2019

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  Aquavit, Cascading Lines, cocktail recipe, cocktails, Drinking Poetic, Genever, Henry McKenna, Hops, Whiskey Wednesday

• 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 think the problem is twofold.   1) Stylistically, I gravitate towards stirred, booze forward drinks that include some sort of odd characteristic. I go through phases: stirred citrus, clarified everything, fruit infused sherries, etc. I essentially want to turn […]

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  April 26, 2019

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  Bitter Melon, Bottled-In-Bond LA, cocktails, Drinking Poetic, Kombucha, NoMad, NoMad LA, Panic Order, Vodka, Whiskey Wednesday

• 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 within the pages of the Savoy Cocktail book, one of the quintessential drink tomes of the Golden and Modern cocktail age, is a drink that reads like a New Yorker describing their “totally real” visit to […]

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  March 6, 2019

  Bushmills, Classics, cocktails, Competition, Drinking Poetic, History, Savoy, Whiskey Wednesday

  Bushmills, cocktails, Drinking Poetic, Los Angeles Sour, New York Sour, NoMad LA, Old Overholt, Savoy Cocktail Book, Teeling, Whiskey Wednesday

• 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 determined that not even a drop of water would come between myself and my sweet, sweet barrel aged nectar. What’s changed me? The highball.       The highball is nothing new. It’s a simple class of […]

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  September 27, 2017

  cocktails, Drinking Poetic, Japanese, Spirits, Suntory, Whiskey, Whiskey Wednesday, Whisky

  cocktails, Drinking Poetic, Highball, Japanese Whisky, Suntory, Toki, Toki Highball, Whisk(e)y, Whiskey Wednesday, Whisky

• 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 I also just find it fun. Like really fun. I love the whole shebang. I have a background in theater so I spend a lot of time crafting the oration and spectacle of the presentation […]

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  September 22, 2017

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  Bartender of the Year, cocktails, Drinking Poetically, Heaven Hill, Remember The Maine, Rittenhouse, Ship of Theseus