November 2008 Entries
I don't often do this (like I've never done it before), but I wanted to take a moment to try and spread the word about Zane Lamprey's TV show, "Three Sheets", which currently airs on MOJOHD. Apparently MOJOHD is closing its doors by the end of the year, and take its programming lineup with it unless other networks pick up the shows, including "Three Sheets".
If you're already a fan of Zane's show, you know what a travesty the loss of this show would be. If you're not familiar, I highly recommend you check out the MOJO site, as well...
posted @ Monday, November 24, 2008 12:00 AM |
This coming Thursday (November 20), for one night and one night only, you can join Gabriel of CocktailNerd.com and me for a real treat as we join the Mixoloseum's Thursday Drink Night LIVE from Trader Vic's on the Las Vegas Strip starting at 6pm Pacific Time!
That's right, this week Gabe and I will be mixing things up with the bartenders at Vic's, courtesy of Leblon Cachaca - which works out perfectly since Leblon is this week's theme for TDN. So if you're joining us from home, be sure to pick up a bottle first, or if you happen to be...
posted @ Tuesday, November 18, 2008 5:57 PM |
Darcy O'Neil over at Art Of Drink took a neat idea that had been floating around in the foodblogger-sphere for a while and has adapted it to those of us who worship tippling over nibbling. I'm not sure everyone will agree with this list, but I think it's a pretty good one (maybe that's because I've tried 81 of them). Yes, I know...there's actually a rum on here that I haven't tried. I'm working on it...I just don't make it up to Canada all that often. From Darcy's site, here are the instructions.
Instructions:
1) Copy this list into...
posted @ Friday, November 14, 2008 11:13 AM |
"Oregon" is not usually the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of rum. Usually the climes that pop into a person's head are a tad warmer. Old Mill Gold Rum is a rum that has been "developed for the Pacific Northwest" by H. Malarkey Wall and his father before him.
Technically this rum is not produced in the Pacific Northwest. The spirit is actually imported from the more often rum-associated Caribbean island of St. Croix and then aged in charred American oak casks in slightly less tropical Oregon for two to four years. The rum is then blended...
posted @ Thursday, November 13, 2008 12:00 AM |
Mixology Monday bears down upon us once again. For this month's musings on mixological mania, Doug from the Pegu Blog has selected a theme of "made from scratch." A month requiring that the drink submitted use homemade ingredients of some sort? This month seemed like it would prove challenging.
I don't make a lot of my own ingredients. Call it sloth, a lack of talent, the result of living in a place where I can buy just about any ingredient I want without too much hassle...I just don't often find the drive to make my own cocktail ingredients. This being for...
posted @ Monday, November 10, 2008 10:43 AM |
UK RumFest, a festival of all things rum, was hosted in the UK by the Rum Experience at the Royal Horticultural Halls in London last week. For its second year, the event billed as the world's premier rum festival brought rum producers, enthusiasts, and fanatics together in London to sample, discuss, and then sample some more rum. Ian Burrell, the driving force behind RumFest, probably explains it best:
This was my first year in attendance - and I wasn't quite sure what to expect. I spent the night before out with many of the VIP's that would be giving presentations, manning...
posted @ Tuesday, November 04, 2008 1:21 PM |