by Brian | Apr 15, 2017 | Recipes
This blackberry season is strange. The berries have come early and they are big, but they lack intense flavor. Perhaps later in the season, with more sun, the sweetness and depth of flavor will emerge. In the meantime, the berries are already picked. What to do...
by Brian | Mar 31, 2017 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes, Uncategorized
A couple of weeks ago I reviewed a wonderfully brilliant cocktail book, Wild Cocktails by Lottie Muir. The concept of this book is simple: go outdoors, into your garden or the forest, pick some elements of nature, and use them at home to make components:...
by Brian | Mar 30, 2017 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes, Uncategorized
With all the cocktail books that have appeared, we finally see many cocktails secrets in the spotlight. Authors are telling us those special things that mixologists, for generations, have done to fashion exceptional cocktails — ones that we have been unable to...
by Brian | Mar 14, 2017 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes, Uncategorized
Yesterday I reviewed a wonderfully brilliant cocktail book, Wild Cocktails by Lottie Muir. The concept of this book is simple: go outdoors, into your garden or the forest, pick some elements of nature, and use them at home to make components: flavored liquors,...
by Brian | Mar 2, 2017 | Cocktails, Dedicated Drinker's Diary, TBT, Uncategorized
I posted this cocktail a year ago. My wife Suzi loves bourbon and hates ginger. I wondered how this combo would work for her: could bourbon beat out the ginger? When she took her first sip, Suzi closed her eyes, and then smiled. “This is really good,” she...
