by Brian | Jul 14, 2012 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
Man goes into a bar. [Sorry, for timing reasons it has to be a man.] The bar is in New York City. The man pulls his stool up to the edge of the bar. Sawdust shuffles as the stool legs scrape along the floor. The bartender, large and flush, says, “What’ll you...
by Brian | Jul 2, 2012 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
Sangria. Wine purists think of it as a four-letter word. How could one possible contaminate wine, they say. Unless, of course, it’s not “proper” wine. If you want to make sangria with some cheap red from some Mediterranean country on the verge of bankruptcy,...
by Brian | Jun 29, 2012 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
This is a truth, a fact, and not one of my modest exaggerations. Whipped cream can be an essential ingredient of a recipe, absolutely required by the laws of physics and chemistry. This post is clearly going to be different. It’s serious and scientific. Now, let’s...
by Brian | Jun 22, 2012 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
I am a rum and tequila person. Those are the spirits that move me. Literally. Bourbon and whiskey? I get confused. I drink them rarely and off the top of my head, I can’t tell you which is which. I know, it’s embarrassing. But I take refuge in the fact that...
by Brian | Jun 5, 2012 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
Here is how we found our way to the best lemonade yet. “Are you open for lunch?” I asked. It was 12:01 at the Pig Bar in Saugerties, New York. “We are. We just are.” The bar there is huge: high, wide, and thirty feet long. The voice came from a little girl. Pretty and...
by Brian | Jun 2, 2012 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
Alright, it’s a bad picture. I understand that but I have a very, totally, perfectly legitimate reason. I made this drink and just took a little sip to make sure it was blogable. Well, it’s very blogable, so I took another sip and then a deep sip and then some more....
