Hells yeah

SeanMike | January 23, 2010

Yeah, believe it or not – it’s just me.  I know I haven’t been around a lot lately, and I’m not going to make excuses for that.  From now on my goal is one post a week!
Feel free to chuckle or what have you.
Obviously, I was posting pretty hardcore up until Tales last year.  Then [...]

A Little On-Line Love

Marshall | November 12, 2009

City Creative, a blog based out of Pittsburgh, PA which focuses on the creative goings-on in PGH, interviewed our good friend and fellow cocktail blogger Craig “Dr. Bamboo” Mrusek.   The interview discusses Craig’s work as a booze blogger and as an illustrator.  If you’ve come across my Mountain Moonshine Bitters or Sean’s homemade Amer Picon, [...]

Trademarks, Rum & A Special Guest

Marshall | August 13, 2009

Last week I received an email from Vidiot over at Cocktailians asking my thoughts on a recent email he received from a company claiming he violated a trademark through a name he gave a cocktail.  (Whew!)  You can read his post about the situation here.  We exchanged emails throughout the day discussing the company which [...]

Booze Nerdery

Marshall | August 11, 2009

Over at the Washington City Paper, our good friend Derek Brown has hijacked their “Young & Hungry” section to talk about booze, cocktails and drinking in DC.
His first two articles are titled “So You Want to be a Cocktail Nerd?” and they are really great reads.  You can find Part One here. And here is [...]

The Flaming Pompeii Garnish

Marshall | August 3, 2009

During Drink.Write 2009, one of the sessions dealt with garnishing cocktails.  The panelists were Tiare Olson, Rick Stutz and Martin Cate.  The session was split into three sections.  The first was twists where we learned how to make twists using various citrus peels – thin tight twists, thick twists, etc.  The second section concerned fire.  [...]