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The D.C. Craft Bartender’s Guild’s 2014 Rickey Competition on Sunday at Jack Rose Dining Saloon honored a new set of mix masters, tapsters and would-be sailors who successfully reinterpreted the city’s native cocktail.
When all was said and done, Lukas Smith of Daikaya beat out his fellow competitors with the “Supafly Rickey.” Second place went to Dustin Beruta from Cashion’s Eat Place with the “Vanilla-Key Rickey.” Third went to Casey Hristakos from Sixth Engine with [...] Continue Reading…
This barman skips Tales of the Cocktail for tales from the grapevine
Some of the Napa valley hills are golden brown and bone dry from the drought that’s been afflicting sunny California the past three years. Still, there are rows of lush green grapevines filling the land making one vineyard indistinguishable from another. It is mesmerizing.
“We’re going to need some Pedialyte,” says my girlfriend, Nicole. She wants to have a bartender’s favorite cure on hand, [...] Continue Reading…
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D.C. Craft Bartenders Guild President, Owen Thomson, holds up to the crowd a rectangular can the size of a deck of cards. A grin spills across his face. Thomson is about to reveal the next ingredient for the contest.
“Smoked sardines,” he says. The crowd collectively cringes.
That’s the kind of curveballs participants faced at last Sunday afternoon’s Negroni Throwdown at The Gibson. The winner, Chris Martino of Barrel, faced strong competition. In [...] Continue Reading…
The chalkboard at Mockingbird Hill details the schedule for their one year anniversary.
Mockingbird Hill celebrated its one year anniversary last Thursday night with a DJ performance by Brendan Canty of Fugazi and a night filled with sherry. Chantal Tseng and Derek Brown opened the evening up just like any other. Yet unlike others, an assortment of characters and leaders in the industry came there specifically to wish the 2014 Tales [...] Continue Reading…
