Events
Events
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 |
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 |
UK RumFest is billed as Europe's only festival to celebrate my favorite spirit. It's a collection of rum producers, marketers, sellers, distributors, and consumers, all coming together in London to sample products and cocktails, listen to seminars on everything from the history of the spirit to matching it with chocolate, watch cocktail competitions, and just simply enjoy the world's most varied spirit.
RumFest is the brainchild of Ian Burrell, a restaurateur, mixologist, recording artist, basketball player, and fierce rum advocate (you can understand why I like him). Ian is known by many as the Rum Ambassador, and along with the...
posted @ Monday, October 27, 2008 12:00 AM |