Wine and pasta are a winning combination, so the Shawangunk Wine Trail will offer both to visitors at all 12 member wineries in April. The event is “Pasta Primo Vino,” scheduled for 10 a.m. to 6 pm. Saturday and Sunday, April 14-15. Tickets are $20 plus tax and handling fees and cover wine tasting and [...]
¡HOLA TEQUILA! By Colleen Graham. Sellers Publishing. 128 pages, 75 color photographs by Shannon Graham. $15.95. It’s always a pleasant surprise to find a book that provides more than its cover promises. That is the case with “¡Hola Tequila!” Colleen Graham, a professional bartender who writes the cocktails column for About.com, promises “Ninety creative cocktails [...]
The new flavored bourbons. Jim Beam has announced the addition of two more flavored bourbons to its Red Stag portfolio. Red Stag Honey Tea and Red Stag Spiced, which join Red Stag Blck Cherry, are being delivered to markets this month. Like the cherry flavor, each uses a Jim Beam four-year-old bourbon as a base, [...]
Sometimes a long-planned public relations campaign gets tripped up by reality. Take our friends at the Magic Hat Brewing Co. in South Burlington, VT. Here in the midst of a winter without snow (unless the forecast for tonight changes that), a press release reads: “Greetings from the snow-capped Green Mountains of Vermont! As winter’s grip [...]
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SPRINGBANK, LONGROW & HAZELBURN, oh and not forgetting KILKERRAN !!!
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I’ve just posted the latest cartoon from Brian Zaikowski, creator of “Demented Denizens,” which runs regularly on my main blog. Go here to view it, as well as an archive of Brian’s offbeat sense of humor. (The accompanying cartoon is one example of what’s in the archive.) Brian works from his studio in Portsmouth, NH. [...]
Thanks to Pat Bailey for passing along this one: A minister was completing a temperance sermon. With great emphasis he said, “If I had all the beer in the world, I’d take it and pour it into the river.” With even greater emphasis he said, “And if I had all the wine in the world, [...]
SARATOGA SPRINGS — Nine New York breweries will be participating in the inaugural Saratoga Beer Week that runs this Thursday through Saturday. The first event is a launch party scheduled for 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday at Olde Saratoga Brewery, 131 Excelsior Avenue. Former Springwater Bistro owner/chef David Britton, now better known as the shorter [...]
I’ve gotten lazy. Not just with this blog–I mean, look at how long it’s been since the last post–and not just with documenting whatever drinks-related writing and cocktail-related things I’m working on at any point in time. No, I’ve gotten lazy, in general, with drinks–which explains why, on this Mixology Monday, when the theme is [...]
They are part of the lineup Esquire magazine has designated the “Healthiest Beer to Drink.” Go here for the details. Get all the latest news on my Upstate Restaurant Examiner column and check out what’s coming up on my NY Drinks Events Calendar.robynmichelle79 posted a reply:
I just started tasting whisky, but my favorite so far is the Macallan 12 or 18 year... love the chocolate orange flavor!