Blur Ball, December 2, to benefit Murray Stenson
In the month-ish since I last updated, I’ve had thousands of visitors coming to learn more about ways to help Murray Stenson (a Twitter shoutout from Rachel Maddow and a link from the New York Times...
View ArticleMORE Holiday Drinks that Don’t Suck, December 8 at Rob Roy
What, again?! It was only a year ago that I spent a December afternoon at Rob Roy, igniting the contents of a punch bowl and dispensing Tom & Jerry as I did my best to dispel the bibulous bogeymen...
View ArticleA look back at whisk(e)y season, Part I
Some people — okay, me — are of the mindset that brown booze is a year-round sort of thing, the kind of drink you keep in your glass on winter’s darkest evenings as well as summer’s brightest...
View ArticleA look back at whisk(e)y season, Part II
Yesterday, I launched into a wandering and long-overdue meditation on the whiskies that, for me, made the long, grisly winter of ’12-’13 endurable. Yesterday’s post covered bourbon; today, it’s all...
View ArticleHoliday Drinks that *Still* Don’t Suck, December 8, 2013
As much as I hate it when department stores (and hyper-festive neighbors) break out the Xmas decorations well before Thanksgiving, I need to figuratively stand before you for a moment with my Santa hat...
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I have a ridiculous career. A little over nine years ago, I started The Cocktail Chronicles as a way to document and keep track of my experiments and explorations of cocktails — and, with fingers...
View ArticleThe Cocktail Chronicles: 10 Years On
Ten years ago today, I was bored. And probably a little buzzed. That’s nothing new on either front, but on May 16, 2005, instead of putting on a movie or goofing around online or frittering away my...
View ArticleThe Cocktail Chronicles book preview, June 28
Ten years in the making, The Cocktail Chronicles is now at the printer, with the first copies headed to bookstores and other retailers in early July. But readers (and drinkers) in Seattle will have a...
View ArticleSan Francisco book-release events, July 6 & 7
The hometown crowd at Rob Roy treated me right on Sunday for the special preview of The Cocktail Chronicles — but San Francisco, now it’s your turn. I’ll be in the Bay Area for two back-to-back book...
View ArticleMxMo C: Who, me?
Ah, the twists and turns of time. It seems like only yesterday the boozy blogosphere was bouncing along in its stroller, its fat cheeks still rosy with the blush of gin (and youth). But today, the...
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