http://alcoholi.st Yet another cocktail blog. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:30:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For something like six months, I've been planning a new tattoo spanning my shoulder blades. Given what I do for my day job, I need to stick to areas of my body typically concealed by business casual attire, which inconveniently forces me to at least partially disrobe in order to display ... http://alcoholi.st/2012/01/the-continuing-saga-of-my-new-old-fashioned-tattoo/ Sunday, the day after another lovely Repeal Day Ball, hosted by the DC Craft Bartenders' Guild, I barbacked for Speed Rack DC/Philly. In a dress. And make-up. And high-heeled boots. Here are some pictures: And here are some videos: http://alcoholi.st/2011/12/speed-rack-dcphl-2011/ I played along with the whole holiday-themed adult beverage thing to take a drink to a friend's Hallowe'en party Friday night, putting off what I was going to make to the last minute, which left me on the Internet poking around. My god, some of this stuff is awful. I ... http://alcoholi.st/2010/10/dont-google-halloween-cocktail-unless-you-have-a-strong-stomach/ Given that I travel a lot for work, and then also a lot for fun, the fruit fly invasion we all see periodically can some times breed (while I'm gone for weeks on end) into something of a swarm. I've long known that sweeter liqueurs (brandies and cognacs are often ... http://alcoholi.st/2010/10/fruitfly-catching-round-1-cooper-family-shootout/ I figured it was about time, and Rodolphe (who, for the record, started this whole thing; I neither can nor would take credit for that) approved. http://cocktailsoftheworld.net/ http://alcoholi.st/2010/09/cocktailsoftheworld-net/ We don't need to go into too many details about it here (RCR prep is non-trivially to blame), but I have something of a fruit fly colony in my house right now. I'm opposed, on various grounds, to anything that ends with -icide, and fruit flies are especially easy pickin's, ... http://alcoholi.st/2010/09/catching-fruit-flies-with-booze/ Really, don't go there for much of anything in the way of night life, except for a couple of ear-bleedingly loud gay night clubs... and except for the WONDERFUL dive (although it's kinda new and clean for that appellation) Cinebar. That's as close to an official page as you'll get. ... http://alcoholi.st/2010/09/dont-go-to-san-jose-for-cocktails/ Travel for my day job and taking care of various USBG PA issues when I'm in town has meant that I've posted relatively little here. It wasn't ever my intention to make blogging yet another unpaid part-time job, but when I was chatting last weekend with Thad at his lovely ... http://alcoholi.st/2010/09/lets-try-this-again/ converting ice @ 0 degC to water @ 0 degC requires 80 calories / mole takes longer cool a drink with colder ice no temp difference between center and surface of a *dry* cube of ice (< 0.2 degC) speed of stirring works the way you'd expect (faster stir cools faster; disregard aeration ... http://alcoholi.st/2010/07/for-ec-science-of-stirring-notes/ Last year I pretended that I was going to make my way through my notes and post a summary of every seminar I attended. I failed completely at that. I'm not going to pretend this year: instead, I'm just going to transcribe, with attribution, the humorous quotations from notable bartenders ... http://alcoholi.st/2010/07/quotes-from-tales-of-the-cocktail-2010/