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Volume 10, Issue 6, March 13 or 14
depending on how motivated we get this afternoon, 2008
by Gary Regan and Mardee Haidin Regan
© 2008 Reganomics, Inc.
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Most of the packages of freebies that arrive on my doorstep are sent by spirits companies, wineries and their various agents. They arrive filled with bottles, the obligatory Bubble Wrap, a press release at the bottom of the box, and occasionally a martini glass or two. The peripheral material is usually discarded immediately, but this wasn't the case last year when a box containing a new cream liqueur turned up . . .
Click the Link Below for the Scoop, the Whole Scoop, and . . .
LeNell's Cocktail of the Month |
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"OK, I'm a bit pissed...and I mean that in the American version, not English, as I've been way too sober lately . . . "
What's this? LeNell's been sober? To read the whole story, and get the recipe for LeNell's Rosé the Riveter Cocktail, click the nice lady below
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Take a lookie below to see what our buddie
Robert Hess has been up to in
The Cocktail Spirit, a grand series of on-line video thingies. |
The Zombie CocktailIn its many incarnations The Zombie has become an icon of the tropical drink era spawned by Trader Vic and Don the Beach Comber. As Jeff "Beach Bum" Berry and other cocktail historians re-discover these classic recipes and the "tiki" culture takes off again in this new century The Zombie and it's brethren are poised to make a comeback.
The Mai Tai CocktailThe Mai Tai is one of the most well known cocktails from the "Tiki" era... Or is it? Chances are good that if you've ever had a Mai Tai, you haven't had it the way Victor "Trader Vic" Bergeron intended it.
And don't forget to check out Robert's
DrinkBoy Community
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We've been poring through our library of late, and we found some pretty great quotations in Harry Johnson's 1900 book,
The New and Improved Illustrated Bartenders’ Manual or How To Mix Drinks of The Present Style.
Here we bring you a couple of our favorites.
What's that you say, Harry?
“A good many people, I am sorry to say, are laboring under the erroneous impression that there is no such thing as a
gentleman in the liquor business."
Well, welly, well, well, Harry. That's simply dreadful. Is there anything you'd like to add about, say, the appearance of the bartender?
“I cannot avoid, very well, offering a few more remarks regarding the conduct and appearance of the bartender, although I have touched upon the subject quite frequently in this book. I wish to impress on the mind of each man behind the bar, that he should look and act as neatly as possible. Bartenders should not, as some have done, have a toothpick in their mouth, clean their fingernails while on duty, smoke, spit on the floor, or have other disgusting habits.”
Spitting Prohibited, huh? Gary was in a band called Spitting Prohibited, you know . . .
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The Museum of the American Cocktail Returns to New Orleans.
MOTAC’s new exhibit will be housed with the Southern Food
& Beverage Museum at the Riverwalk Mall in New Orleans, next to the Convention
Center and the Aquarium of the Americas, and steps away from Harrah’s, the
French Quarter, Canal Street, and Café Adelaide’s Swizzle Stick Bar.
For More Details click the logo below
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At long last, F. Paul Pacult (we call him F for short) has compiled his incredibly detailed spirits reviews, written over the past seven years, and put them all in one big fat book where we can steal from them at will. Thanks, Paul.
If you're serious about your spirits, and if you want to know that your dollars are being well spent when you hit that liquor store, you don't want to be without this baby. It contains descriptions and ratings for over 2,400 spirits, that Dave Wondrich has never bought. Not a one. Zero. Zilch. De Nada.
Click on the book cover above to go to the web site, or click here to buy directly from amazon.
Paul's Looking Pretty Pleased with Himself Here . . .
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You might want to join now so you don't miss the next issue of the Worldwide Bartender Bulletin.
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June 22/23 |
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The New York Bar Show gets better every year--don't miss the 2008 version!
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| July 16 - July 20 |
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| The biggest cocktail event in the country--don
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