iPhone Cocktail App Reviews: Flip ‘N Drink
on Oct 9, 2009 in Cocktail Apps Fight Night! application cocktail app flip 'n drink gary regan iphone I will continue to review iPhone cocktail apps this month and, likely, well into 2010. The first application I’ll review in October is the progeny of one of the greats in the pantheon of cocktailians, Gary Regan, whose book “The Joy of...

Last Night’s Dogbite: The Bumblebee
on Sep 23, 2009 in Angostura Bitters Drinkage Rum aged rum bumblebee charles baker cocktail egg white ellestad heaven's dog honey recipe rumdood When you read one of Charles Baker’s Gentlemen’s Companions you’re in for a delightful romp through his travels, misfortunes, egotism, and name-dropping. They’re lively and fun reads. When you try to parse a recipe from one of...

iPhone Cocktail App Reviews: Tiki+
on Sep 3, 2009 in Cocktail Apps Fight Night! Uncategorized app cocktail drinks iphone jeff berry Rum tiki The past couple of weeks (and, at this rate, for the rest of my natural-born life) I’ve been reviewing iPhone cocktail apps, and I’m continuing the stretch for a bit longer before taking a break. Today’s review is an extra-special...

iPhone Cocktail App Reviews: Pocket Cocktails
on Aug 27, 2009 in Cocktail Apps Fight Night! apps iphone maran pocket cocktails review As you’ve probably noticedby now, I’m taking a tour of the cocktail apps available in the iTunes App Store and evaluating which belong on your iPhone and which are total duds to be left in the dustbin to be ported to Android. If you haven...

iPhone Cocktail App Reviews: iShot Machine
on Aug 25, 2009 in Cocktail Apps Fight Night! app cocktails drinks iphone ishot machine oasys review shots As you may have read in yesterday’s post, I’ll be ranging through the cocktail apps available on the iPhone and evaluating which belong in your suite of apps and which are total duds to be left in the dustbin to be ported to Android . As...

iPhone Cocktail App Reviews: 101 Cocktails
on Aug 20, 2009 in Cocktail Apps Fight Night! 101 cocktails app store apps cocktail iphone itunes jimmy patrick review If you have an iPhone, and you’re on this site, you’ve probably thought about them; all those cocktail apps at your disposal. So have I. So much so, in fact, that I’ve found over 20 of them I’d like to sit and evaluate and sha...

Are you Bar Smart?
on Aug 17, 2009 in Spotlight On! B.A.R. barsmarts bartending olson pacult pernod-ricard skills training wired wondrich At Tales of the Cocktail last month, an intriguing opportunity arose; would I like to attend the Beverage Alcohol Resource’s (B.A.R.) BarSmarts Advanced program in Los Angeles, San Francisco, or New York City this year? Why yes, thank you! I wo...

Wondrich Invents the Colbert Bump-Colbert Wants Dave’s Digits
on Aug 5, 2009 in Absurd but funny colbert colbert bump daiquiri drinking imbibe television wondrich The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Colbert Bump Cocktail – David Wondrich www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Tasers Last night, the “Historical Oracle,” David Wond...

Ginger Beer Extravaganza II: Part I
on Aug 2, 2009 in Fight Night! Ginger Beer Mixers aj stephans fever tree ginger ginger beer ginger people review Yes, it’s been awhile since I wrote on my stable of ginger beers I’ve had in the wings but, frankly, that’s primarily because there are only so many ways one can describe “ginger-y” and various levels of “gingerit...

Last Night’s Dogbite: The Violet Hour
on Jul 27, 2009 in Bitters Bourbon Drinkage Old Fashioned Vermouth blackstrap chicago toby maloney violet hour At the violet hour, the hour when eyes and back and hand Turn upward from the desk, the human engine waits– Like a taxi throbbing waiting at a stand– To spring to pleasure through the horn or ivory gates. The Violet Hour is a drink that...