Tales of the Cocktail: Spirited Seminars for 2014
March 31, 2014 by Mr. Boozenik
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Tales of the Cocktail® Announces Spirited Series of Seminars for 2014
Tales of the Cocktail: Rise of the Zombie: Tiki’s Deadly Drink
August 8, 2013 by Mr. Boozenik
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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?
August 1, 2013 by Mr. Boozenik
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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
July 25, 2013 by Mr. Boozenik
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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
August 31, 2012 by Mr. Boozenik
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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
August 30, 2012 by Mr. Boozenik
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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
August 28, 2012 by Mr. Boozenik
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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.
Tales of the Cocktail: “The Making of Liquors”
August 25, 2012 by Mr. Boozenik
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An amusing and spirited exchange between Alain Royer of Pagès and Matteo Luxardo on French and Italian traditions of distilling, maceration, and flavoring.
Recipe: Vieux Carré
July 25, 2012 by Mr. Boozenik
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The Vieux Carré has been a favorite of most cocktail lovers visiting New Orleans, since Walter Bergeron first concocted this spirit-forward drink in the 1930s.
Tales of the Cocktail: Pisco Preview
July 23, 2012 by Mr. Boozenik
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We’re especially looking forward to the events at Tales of the Cocktail aimed at furthering our knowledge, and our palate, for pisco, the spirit of the Andes.