A weblog detailing cocktails, spirits, liqueurs, barware, bars, and bitters. Maintained by Michael Dietsch, a hobbyist mixer in Providence, R.I.

From the category archives:

On the web

The green fairy of record

December 5, 2007

Happy Repeal Day! I’m going to have a couple or three posts today, but I’ll start briefly. The Times, this morning, continues to trip merrily through the spirits world with a piece on absinthe. The piece, by Pete Wells, opens with a bit of surprise, at least to me–the first American-produced absinthe of the revival. [...]

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Times loves booze

November 28, 2007

I don’t normally just link out to other articles, but a couple of things in this morning’s Times caught my eye, and I thought they were worth sharing–the first is a tasting panel on bourbons, and the second, a feature on Tiki drinks.

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Elsewhere…

October 1, 2007

…I’ve been invited to contribute pieces to How to Do Things, and my first article went live today. I’ve been working on it for a month, alas, and it shows how busy I’ve been that such a relatively simple piece should take a month. Anyway, my first piece is about buying bar tools. I think [...]

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Smooth and sloe

August 28, 2007

Food & Wine’s Mouthing Off reports today that Plymouth plans to introduce its sloe gin to US shores next year.

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Bear with me…

August 21, 2007

I’m working with Darcy O’Neil to test a new ad system, so things are going to shift around a just bit here. I’m also considering going with Feedburner or adopting some sort of WordPress plugin to better manage my RSS feed. I want to drive eyes to the blog to read the full content, but [...]

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Salon’s summer swizzles sizzle

August 17, 2007

To anyone clicking through from Salon.com, welcome. Snoop through the cabinets and make yourselves comfortable. On Tuesday, I had the honor of joining Salon’s witty New York editorial team for its summer-cocktail contest. You’d search long to find a finer group of raconteurs and bon vivants. Sarah Karnasiewicz and her colleagues welcomed me not just [...]

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Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to work I go

August 10, 2007

At pretty much the same moment that Mouthing Off, the Food & Wine blog, honors me by linking here, I have to announce that my presence will likely become more sporadic for a few weeks as I enter a heavy-overtime period at the day job. This will run well into October. I will participate in [...]

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