booze news

• This week’s health claim: wine reduces vision loss.
• Cocktail. Snow Cones. Yeeeeeesssssssss!!!
• If you’re drinking a diluted Pimm’s Cup, you should just be drinking lemonade. Poor Wimbledon.
• Make Zima at home (I’m looking at you Death to Sour Mix)!
• A bunch of stupid drink hacks that I’m sure will end up as a Low Rent Cocktail on this site someday.
• Well, if beer wasn’t your thing, you can now have your fill of Game of Thrones wine.
• A little history on just why the hell we break a bottle of booze on ships.
• Observations about life from bartenders.
• Looking for a place to holiday this Fall? Try the absinthe trail!
• Are you in Los Angeles this week? Check out the Coconut Club Tiki Supperclub experience.

• Coffee flavored wine. I’m…I’m so confused by this.
• Service charges for cocktails? Yea or nay?
• The health community continues to contradict itself with medical studies on alcohol.
• Shrubs. This summer’s cocktail buzz word (lives up to the hype).
• Musings on the history of the Martini with a recipe of one you can snort.
• Oh shit. We’re running out of whiskey.
• Yeah, Kentucky is beautiful, but we’re mainly coming to drink all your booze.
• Hella Bitters has a kickstarter for a make your own bitters kit. Check it!
• Everyone’s falling in love with Orgeat. All the Tiki folks like “duuuuuhhhhhhh”.
• Go grab some barefoot virgins and make Nocino today.

• The World Cup is on (I’m watching and I don’t know why). Here’s a drink matched for every team playing.
• Honolulu is upping their tropical cocktail game and I’m having serious #FOMO.
• Floating vines, stray bullets…the world’s most EXTREME vineyards.
• Does “local” mean more to you than “taste”? The current situation with craft distilling.
• A drink a day keeps the eye doctor away!
• I’m all for “Sunrise Pick Me Ups”: a brief history of the Old Fashioned.
• Defining what makes “Tennessee Whiskey” if it’s not from Tennessee.
• Trendy bar name generator. I got Cleaver & Yard. I’d drink there.
• The World’s Most Imaginative bartender made a cocktail that tastes like money.
• Like drinking games? Like the Golden Girls? Here you go...

• Ordering beer around the world. Keep this handy.
• Some excellent tips for writing a cocktail book from Michael Dietsch.
• Beer for dogs. Wine for cats. These exist in our world.
• And so does PB&J beer. Has anyone tried this yet?
• Not a bad list of gins, but missing so many others...
• Bruce Lee flair bartending style. Show off.
• Whoa New Hampshire! I guess if you’re stuck in the woods all the time you’re going to drink. A lot.
• A very scientific approach to batching cocktails (i.e. my new method).
• Nice little article on Jeffrey Morgenthaler who has a really great book out right now.
• It’s my birthday. Will someone please by me a set of handblown Aquavit glasses?

• Support an awesome campaign to record the history of the West Coast Cocktail!
• The oldest Tiki bars in America. I’ve been to 4 out of 5. I think this list is missing a couple though.
• WHO IS BRINGING THEIR OWN BITTERS TO THE BAR? WHO? Miracle Mile Bitters is excused from this.
• Canada…you’re so predictable.
• Whiskey flavored pigs. Seriously guys.
• Everyone should have a house cocktail. What’s yours?
• A great piece that argues both for rusticity and modernity for authenticity in Mexican spirits.
• Weird cocktail names. Monkey gland always sounded strange to me...
• A cocktail bar graph for the modern farmer.
• Plastic beer bag sounds both awful and applicable.
• Father’s Day is less than a week away. Here are the Stir & Strain gift picks!

This week you’re getting your booze news a whole DAY early! Why? Because tomorrow there will be a big announcement that justifies bumping Monday’s news. Peruse at your Sunday leisure…

• If you’re in Los Angeles, here are Zagat’s choices for the 10 best Mezcal Cocktails.
• Not in L.A. but looking for a place to drink on Cinco de Mayo? Check these bars out.
• The Kentucky Derby may be over, but do you really need a reason for more Bourbon, Bourbon, Bourbon?
• Ok, so you did have too much too drink. Try these nonalcoholic drinks that actually sound delicious.
• Where is beer headed next? Apparently Africa.
• Everything you ever wanted to know about Jungle Juice.
• We turn again to Jim Meehan as he tells us what’s in a well-stocked home bar.
• Beer made from a 35 million old WHALE BONE. Beat that Game of Thrones beer…
• Looking for a challenge? Try these cocktails at home today from a few top bartenders.
• Some helpful tips on how to choose which Beer Festival you’re attending this summer.

• FOOD SCIENCE: drinking until you’re (not) drunk.
• You’re less likely to encounter violence in England now outside the bar, but you sure are paying a lot of money for that cocktail.
• What your zodiac sign says about how awful you are at being a drunk.
• Regional cocktail recipes to start your week with.
• On demand booze service. From your smart phone. Pants not required.
• Dirty Rotten Wine Scoundrels.
• 3D printers now invading bars (but it’s pretty cool).
• Alcohol expert says drink a bottle of wine every day. It’s good for you!
• After all the hype, powdered alcohol is actually not coming to a store near you.
• And lastly, if you’d like to be reminded that there are amazing people out there in the world, read this.