Tales of the Cocktail: Spirited Seminars for 2014

Tales of the Cocktail® Announces Spirited Series of Seminars for 2014

Tales of the Cocktail: Rise of the Zombie: Tiki’s Deadly Drink

The Zombie was crazily complicated, with secret ingredients, helping maintain it’s exotic, allure in what was already a fairly wild and unreal landscape.

Tales of the Cocktail: European Rums: What’s the Story?

Global Rum Ambassador, and rum edu-tainer, Ian Burrell reminded that while we often think of rum as Caribbean, it’s really a European beverage, from the beginning.

Tales of the Cocktail: Modifiers: Eternal Life for Cocktails

Part trading quips and part lecture, Philip Duff, Erik Lorincz, Alexandre Gabriel, Joaquin Simo, and David Wondrich put on a very enjoyable and informative talk about the role modifiers have played in creating generations of cocktails.

Tales of the Cocktail: Tangled Up in Blue

Welcome to the first, and maybe the last, technical analysis of blue as a cocktail color, especially as presented by people in white suits that stain really quite well.

Tales of the Cocktail: Curaçao

David Wondrich, Philip Duff, and Alexandre Gabriel tour the history of cirtus and of every bar’s most important cocktail liqueur flavour – curacao.

Tales of the Cocktail: Rum w/ Paul Pacalt and Sean Ludford

Paul Pacalt and Sean Ludford share this history and breadth of rum, and how it should be considered one of the worlds greatest and most varied spirits.

Build Your Own Bitters class

We proceeded around the room, adding ingredients drop by drop until our concoctions were done to our liking. Mine ended up earthy and spicy. Ms. Boozenik’s was more citrus-ginger and lighter. Mine for whiskey. Hers for gin.