In the last three weeks I’ve been lucky enough to enjoy two extended private tours & tastings at the Cruzan Rum distillery with one of their QA chemists (and all around great guy) Steve Couture. While, in a later post I will break down the tour, operation and tasting notes, here I want to showcase [...]

The one thing I miss (and I mean the ONLY THING) about winters in the Pacific Northwest is the sweet Douglas Fir scent that comes sweeping down from the Cascade Mountains into the Willamete Valley. Waking up to a cold morning, with fresh dew on the lawn and the smell of the Cascades is captivating. [...]

I was thumbing through my “What’ll You Have 1933 reprint” a while ago and came across this tasty little explosion. I had just received a bottle of Laird’s Applejack from a friend and was looking for an old school idea to use it in. This original is nice and crisp, the bitters/syrup combo really help [...]

I hate Michael Douglas. Yes, it has everything to do with his Marriage to Catherine Zeta-Jones. Everything. I don’t trust him. He has shifty eyes and an untrustworthy mane of silver hair. Politician hair. Look at this quote. “From the moment I met Catherine and we formed our family, I was a new man, very [...]

Today’s libation came to be as most of our favorites have. After midnight at the bar. It was a fun Saturday night and the staff and a few good customers were hanging out after we locked up for the night. I had made a batch of Orangecello earlier that day and had a half dozen [...]

Thanksgiving is upon us and as I have yet to perfect my distilled TurDuckEn (one day, by god… one day) I decided to make another drink to play on those youthful memories of being ushered out of the kitchen on Thanksgiving morning with a finger’s swipe full of mashed potatoes, gleeful at my expanding appetite [...]

“I want a tropical drink, but please don’t say Painkiller…” This, a 40 something good natured woman sitting at my bar asked last week. It was her last night on St Croix and while she had a great time exploring our islands diving spots, she felt that all she could discover above the water was [...]

“Where can I get a good Manhattan?”