Beer SaltJan 30, 2012

The most fascinating new product at this year’s Winter Fancy Food Show (at least from the drinking persective), is apparently a quarter-century old, but I hadn’t heard of it until a December.

 

I was planning another peaceful New Year’s eve in

Ice Cream Bar (815 Cole St. at Frederick), a throwback to the 1930′s soda fountain/ice cream parlor is just about to open in Cole Valley, and while the ice cream sundaes deserve their own write-up, the soda program from Texas/Rickhouse

For my 3rd piece of SF Cocktail Week coverage, I attended an excellent seminar on hosting a cocktail brunch.

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Rundown.com, a daily local email targeted at young urban males ran a piece I wrote today on where to watch football if you aren’t a 49ers fan in SF.

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Entertaining, but terribly misleading, the seminar on “How San Francisco Saved the Irish Whiskey Category” dedicated only 3% of the session to the topic as advertised. Thank heavens they were serving great cocktails!

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SF Cocktail Week was a blast, particularly the molecular mixology event put on by Cocktail Lab.

You can read my coverage on CitySip, which just launched in SF!

Note: I’m writing more for other food and beverage sites, so I will post

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For  crooked bar owners, roofy dosers and those who just can’t drink a whole beer in one sitting, there is now

My favorite mad scientists, the fine distillers at St. George Spirits have just released their first gin… and their second… and their third.  This delectable trio of new gins is incredibly diverse and unique. When I mentioned the endeavor in

Gunpowder TestSep 7, 2011

In the 18th and 19th centuries, when the British Royal Navy rationed rum to mariners, it wasn’t Bacardi Gold.

This stuff had to be fiery enough to fend off the elements, so to ensure their booze wasn’t being watered down, seamen

UrbanDig itSep 4, 2011

Sometimes I forget that there are at least three of you who aren’t my Facebook friends, and thus probably haven’t heard from me about UrbanDig.

It’s a fantastic, free  iPhone app (Android coming soon) that supplies very specific urban tours. Rather