Resources « drink maestro blog

Cocktail News
- Good Booze, Bad Booze: Two Beers, Three Times The Cancer
  One day science says drinking will make you live forever. The next day science says it will kill you tomorrow. Good Booze, Bad Booze is an Alcademics category where I put all these stories together. 2/6/12: Two glasses of wine a day ‘triples mouth canc…
- Joel Baker to Take On Tres Tequila Lounge in San Francisco
  Joel Baker, formerly a bar manager at Bourbon & Branch, NOPA, and Burritt Room, will be taking over the bar program at Tres Tequila Lounge & Mexican Kitchen in San Francisco, the bar/restaurant formerly known as Tres Agaves. Image stolen from T…
- A Clear Ice Ball Maker You Can Buy
  One difficulty with the Igloo Cooler method of making clear ice is that you get a great big block of ice at the end and have to cut it up into usable cubes yourself. I developed an ice cube tray using plastic boxes that gets the ice into long rectangle…
- Drink(s) of the Week: Super Bowl Cocktails
  We’re not placing wagers on this weekend’s Super Bowl, but we’re willing to bet that we could all use a good cocktail on game day. So for today’s Drinks of the Week we’ve got dueling drinks from…
- The Weird Affinity Between ZU Vodka and Cocchi Americano
  ZU vodka, known in the rest of the world as Zubrowka, is starting to appear in more serious drinks than just mixed with the usual apple juice. Oddly enough, in each of these better drinks in which I’ve seen ZU used, it has been used in concert with Coc…
- Exclusive Invitation for Bartenders from Beam Global (Sponsored Post)
  Exclusive Invitation for Bartenders from Beam Global Beam Global Spirits & Wine would like to extend an exclusive, professional invitation to you. In partnership with Communispace, we have a private online community of 300 bartenders who act as dir…
- Quick Sips: Tasty Bits from Around the Web
  A wine chiller doubles as a hibernation den for more than 200 slithering snakes. Chicago Tribune
  
  Two East Coast mayors make a friendly football wager. CBS Pittsburgh
  
  California’s ubiquitous…
- New Booze for January 2012
  As you may know, I have been blogging over at ShakeStir.com, an online community for bartenders. I write the New Booze blog posts, which describe new spirits launching as they happen. I wrote about following new products in January: John B. Stetson Ken…
- Spirits industry bucking weak global economy
  NEW YORK — A weak economy may be wreaking havoc on many industries, but the distilled spirits industry experienced growth in 2011 while taking more market share again from beer.That was among findings released by Distilled Spirits Council Presid…
- Cocktail Menu: Jbird Cocktails in New York
  The bar Jbird is opening a new location in the Upper East Side. The cocktail program, as at the original location, is done by Jason Littrell and Marshall Altier of Genuine Leather Hospitality. Old-Fashioned Cocktails The Original; as defined in 1806; S…

Resources

Bartending and Mixology Blogs

Alcademics – The study of booze with beverage writer Camper English.

Art of Drink – The bartending blog of Darcy S. O’Neil.

Dowd’s Spirits Notebook – William M. Dowd reports and comments on distilled beverages.

Dr. Bamboo – Dr. Bamboo, drinking and drawing.

Imbibe Magazine – Recipes and blogging from Imbibe magazine.

Jeffrey Morgenthaler – Bartending and mixology from Portland, Oregon.

The Santa Fe Barman – Chris Milligan’s bartending blog.

Recipies and Reference

About.com: Cocktails – A comprehensive guide to the world of cocktails on About.com.

Drink of the Week – Weekly recipes and more.

Drinks Mixer – 12,000+ cocktail recipes along with a comprehensive spirit and liquor reference.

Wikipedia – Wikipedia’s master list of cocktails.

Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS).

Cocktail News

Resources

Bartending and Mixology Blogs

Recipies and Reference