http://alcoholi.st Yet another cocktail blog. Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:09:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ Total time: call it 17 hours. (I think we left slightly after 20:00 Eastern Tuesday, but we'd have been at the Monteleone's parking lot at 12:00 Central / 13:00 Eastern if we had known Wednesday's NOPD blockade system.) So, that missed the mark, but I know where ... http://alcoholi.st/2010/07/crescent-run-2010-complete/ I've basically committed myself to driving from Philadelphia to New Orleans for Tales of the Cocktail 2010 at this point. I'll be embarrassed if my car takes more than 20 hours to get there, and I'll be pleased if it breaks 16 hours (meaning that the latter is our target). Although ... http://alcoholi.st/2010/05/driving-quickly-from-phl-to-tales-2010/ It's not much, just a map of members' places of employment and a calendar of upcoming events, but it's more than we had before: http://usbg-pa.org/ Thoughts? http://alcoholi.st/2010/05/we-finally-put-some-content-on-the-usbg-pa-web-page/ I think I'll probably go ahead and introduce myself to Lesley Townsend and ask why she didn't do something similar to this on the official site, but, so that I could figure out what I could attend without conflicts, I created a Google calendar for the currently-posted MCC events, which ... http://alcoholi.st/2010/04/manhattan-cocktail-classic-2010-schedule-in-a-useable-form/ I'll skip the details, I'm here for a dayjob conference followed by a friend's wedding. I just got in tonight, so I stayed close to the hotel. I visited: Farmer Brown The restaurant/bar attached to my hotel, which sources its food from local farms, preferring those run by non-white farmers. It actually ... http://alcoholi.st/2009/08/san-francisco-bars-part-1/ A friend described something that Rye is doing with Averna, rosso vermouth, and (she remembers / presumes) rye as "brown and grown-up ... the kind of thing drunk by crusty British professor types in the 1930s - you know, one glass of claret with dinner (roast beef), one glass of ... http://alcoholi.st/2009/08/name-this-drink/ (Continuing a leitmotif.) Summer Herb Bouquet I've had Aperol cocktails on the back of my mind since I was asked about them not terribly long ago. That, combined with leftover freshly-squeezed orange juice from this past weekend's party and a curiosity to play with basil flowers as a garnish begot this. I ... http://alcoholi.st/2009/08/3-august-2009s-libations/ Ohio, as do many states, has some holdover Blue Laws. It used to have a state monopoly on liqour and wine sales, as Pennsylvania still does, and certainly had the "not on Sundays" provision (still seen in New York's service industry as "no hard alcohol before noon", and various other ... http://alcoholi.st/2009/07/buying-booze-on-sunday-in-ohio/