Stanislav Vadrna is a busy man, but the Beachbum won’t hold that against him. Not when all the work Stan does is geared toward making the world a better place to drink cocktails. When he isn’t studying Eastern bartending philosophy in Tokyo, teaching mixology in Berlin and Belfast, or consulting for bar owners in New [...]
Over at the Small Screen Network, Robert “Drinkboy” Hess (that’s him above) has been furiously posting video cocktail demos recently. We just hope that he finds the time to drink them after he makes them.
His latest post walks you through how to assemble a Suffering Bastard, a wonderful tropical drink invented at Shepheard’s Hotel in [...]
Our pal Kevin Allman had to evacuate his New Orleans home on the approach of Hurricane Gustav. Pictured above is his hurricane evacuation kit. We can only assume that the limes, sugar syrup, and cocktail shaker are buried beneath all that other stuff.
For Kevin’s dispatches:
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We’ve known Pete Moruzzi for many years now, but we’re beginning to wonder … did we ever really know him?
For instance, we didn’t know that he’d been secretly amassing one of the biggest collections in the U.S. of vintage Cuban nightclub ads, bar coasters, hotel brochures, casino flyers, and other paper ephemera. And little [...]
Environmental contamination has nothing on Malaysia’s pen-tailed tree shrews. Turns out the little guys are pretty good at polluting themselves. The shrew, which lives on alcoholic nectar from a local palm tree, “could — pound for pound – – drink the average human under the table,” according to a recent BBC [...]