Category Archives: The Rare
Liquor Store Hunter
Liquor Store Archaeology (as described in Jason Wilson’s Boozehound) is my new favorite hobby. I call it “digging for dusty bottles.” This is where you go to liquor stores that have … Continue reading
Playing Outlawed Tunes on Outlawed Pipes
It was a warm summer night in San Diego when Rob Burr (the Rum Scout) and I stumbled out of the Tiki Oasis Room Crawl, or maybe it was morning. Two … Continue reading
Electric What?
I love going into a craft cocktail bar and asking the bartender to make me something weird. Brian at Noble Experiment in San Diego made me this drink by Sam … Continue reading
Smoke and Oakum
So much happened at Tales of the Cocktail. I am still trying to process it all. The biggest highlights were the people I met. From time to time I will … Continue reading
Chaos of the Cocktail
I just left NOLA after completing my first Tales of the Cocktail. The enormity of this booze industry event is hard to quantify. I feel like I just ran a marathon, … Continue reading
Where is the Calvados?
I am not sure what the calvados marketing strategy for the US is, but in southern California I am pretty sure that it does not exist. I am a babe … Continue reading
Ok! Time for an update.
Last week I went on a mission of liquor store exploration . I found some cool old bottles. The second bottle of Paul Mason Cocktail Sherry was unfortunately bad. The … Continue reading
