Tis the season! With all the holiday festivities, surely parties are on our minds…how to impress guests and what fun drinks to bring to social gatherings. Luckily, this new book by Aaron Goldfarb is full of inspiration. Gather Around Cocktails is all about celebrations and excuses to drink with friends…
Understanding Mezcal by James Schroeder. This was an intensely enlightening book. Unlike many mezcal books out there that focus on the narratives of the producers, personal journeys exploring the spirit, and/or descriptions of the variety of products on the market, this book simply lays down an objective deep dive on…
Hacking Whiskey: Smoking, Blending, Fat Washing, and Other Whiskey Experiments. This new book by Aaron Goldfarb from w&p design is fun and ridiculously wild (& slightly blasphemous at times ;D). It’s an easy read that kept me alternating between chuckling and wide-eyed shock every few pages. It’s a book you…
Up until recently, mezcal to me has always just been that “fun unique smoky tequila-like spirit.” I never really grasped why it was described as “rustic” or what “single village” really meant. I kept a single bottle on hand (Del Maguey Vida) for mixing interesting cocktails, liked it and considered…
Soooo…if you’ve been following me for a while you *may* have picked up on my enthusiasm for rum. Well, my personal rum interest is actually quite recent (just about a year old), and I owe it all to the amazing Smuggler’s Cove book. This book is amazingly written and is…
The book that started it all for me – The Bar Book by Jeffrey Morgenthaler. So I’ve been interested in cocktails/homebartending since college, but it really wasn’t until I got this book a few years ago that I really dove into the subject and started educating myself on it. There…