Drinking Poetic – Bottled In Bond LA

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 […]

I’ve always felt disconnected from the Holiday season. While I grew up Catholic it has had been many a solstice […]

This is the story of a drink that got away from me. As I’ve said before I tend to turn […]

I’m terrible at Vodka drinks. It sounds elitist, snobbish, and very hipster bartender of me but it’s a fact of life. I […]

The Los Angeles Cocktail is terrible and is a perfect example of a bad drink that survives because it’s old. Buried […]

“I prefer things the Old Fashioned Way!” said every generation ever as things changed around them. The Old Fashioned is […]

I feel a certain kinship with Hemingway. I’d like to think it’ because we both have an affinity with words […]

I’m sentimental in my head. I say head because I’m less emotionally sentimental and more intellectually sentimental, meaning that I […]

I’m a whiskey purist. Bourbon, Scotch, Japanese, Barrel Strength, it doesn’t matter, I drink it neat. For years I was […]