by Brian | Apr 23, 2014 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
A few days ago I blogged about the lime shortage. This week, the New York Post spent two pages on the “limepocalype.” The Post story, which was published before the normal Wednesday food section, covered a concerned span of lime users and drinkers. A man with a key...
by Brian | Apr 21, 2014 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, News
The photo above is from tipplesheet.com aka http://karanewman.wordpress.com/. Kara is a reporter, author, and cocktail maven. She has a wonderful blog devoted to cocktail making. And her latest post is one you really need to read: What the #Limepocalypse means...
by Brian | Apr 8, 2014 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
Bars can be expensive. Not that hotel bar you eye occasionally, the one with the $15 drinks. No, I’m talking about your home bar. If you love cocktails and cocktails books — which I do — then it is possible to have stack of “gotta make” recipes. Taken together,...
by Brian | Mar 30, 2014 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Syrups
Just what is a cocktail? One web-searched definition says: “An alcoholic drink consisting of a spirit or several spirits mixed with other ingredients, such as fruit juice, lemonade, or cream.” Cocktail guru Mittie Hellmich in The Ultimate Bar Book offers this more...
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by Brian | Mar 25, 2014 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
This post is not about hamburger. Or roast beef. Or ribs. Or milk. Let me explain explain. What’s in a name? Once upon a time, a “Brown Cow” was vanilla ice cream, chocolate syrup and Coca-Cola. Quickly, the Pepsi people responded. And then there were Brown...
by Brian | Mar 15, 2014 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
Many of us drink gin and we are in a gin paradise: there is a generation of new gins being created in Europe and across this country. In Brooklyn, for example, there are little micro spots coming up with diverse and grand flavors, for example, Greenhook...
