Know your audience. It’s a simple rule, but boy oh boy is it ever useful. Especially when entertaining friends and family. The illustrious Limpd understands this rule and always makes sure that everyone has what they like to drink on hand. On today’s episode of A Tasting at […]
While our tastes reach far and wide when it comes to cocktails, our go-tos are usually spirit forward with minimal ingredients. With that in mind, on today’s episode of A Tasting at The Murder Table, we’re reviewing two of our favorites, i.e. an Old Fashioned and a Manhattan, […]
Way back in 1966, Simon and Garfunkel released an album called Parsley, Sage Rosemary, and Thyme. One of the tunes on that album was the 59th Street Bridge Song. The song starts off exactly like this… Slow down, you move too fast You got to make the morning […]
After doing my first post in the series, Banter with Bartenders, I came up with a mental list of bartenders that I’d like to interview, but today’s post came about organically. It was a Friday night and I wanted to go out for a cocktail and dinner in […]
Last fall I was “on assignment” to take some cocktail photos for a client and was told it would be at a bar – The Jeffrey… with a bartender – The Bearded Alchemist… They told me his name, but when you hear the moniker “The Bearded Alchemist,” you don’t […]
My boy G-LO is a big fan of the cocktail, and on those rare occasions when he’s motivated enough to don his bartender’s cap, he’ll expend a great deal of effort to throw together a respectable and representable version of whatever cocktail he’s been inspired to make. I […]
Back stories. Love em! Can’t get enough of em! So before I get to my review of the Italian liqueur that you see in the above photo, let me tell you a bit about how I got my grubby mitts on this sample… ______________________________________________ Way back in late […]
“It’s just the booze dancing…” is pleased to share details with you about a very special whisky event that will take place over two nights at two separate locations in the Fall of 2013. Why is this event so special? Because it is being hosted by the Jewish […]
I’m not much of a sports fan, but I do love auto racing, so whenever I approach an event like WhiskyLIVE, I try to formulate a “race strategy” beforehand, and then try my best to stick to that “race strategy” (this helps to avoid those “I’m never drinking […]
A short time ago, we received an email from our friend Joshua Hatton (Yo Yo Yossi! as we like to address him) of Jewmalt Whisky Reviews and the Jewish Whisky Company about a brand new whisky event that his company will be hosting on Thursday, October 25th in New York City. […]