by Brian | May 15, 2014 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
In recent years, the liqueur St.-Germain has been a skyrocketing success. With a primary flavor of elderflowers, primary but not too dominant, St.-Germain is an ingredient in thousands of cocktail variations. Its success is due not just to great marketing but truly to...
by Brian | May 4, 2014 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes, Syrups
“Do you crave a drink in the morning,” the doctor asked me. I was having a home physical from my insurance company. They wanted to know my drinking habits. I pondered how to answer. Time, finally time for the truth. I summoned my courage. “In the morning? I’ll kill...
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 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 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...
