In their monthly newsletter today, St. George Spirits announced the launch of their new website. Cringing with fear, I clicked over to discover a site that was cleanly designed, thoughtful, and loaded in an instant, which leads me back to a question that has been bothering me for months: Why must so many alcohol brands […]
Author Archives: Quinn
Fruit Juice Caviar
Molecular mixology was all the rage at Tales of the Cocktail this year. It was like nobody there had turned on the Food Network in the past 3 years, because this stuff is old news in the culinary world. I actually went to a seminar called “Mixologists and their Toys” where two of the three […]
Homemade Cocktail Ingredients and Infusion Tips
For years I’ve been making cocktail ingredients at home. I’ve mentioned some favorite infusions and liqueurs, including roasted ginger vodka, chipotle tequila, firewater, pumpkin pie spiced rum and kumquatcello, but I have also been making sweeteners, including grenadine, flavored syrups and marmalades, and novelties like dried bing cherries reconstituted in port. I’ve been wanting to […]
Soda Siphon Shenanigans
At Tales of the Cocktail, I went to a session on Mixologists and their Toys, and after the first two presenters both talked at length on making sodium alginate sphericals (clearly they didn’t coordinate), the 3rd presenter demonstrated his new cocktail carbonating invention, the Perlini. During the Q&A I grabbed the mic and asked why […]
Retelling Tales of the Cocktail
The impetus for launching LibationLab came from my experience in New Orleans a few weeks ago, at Tales of the Cocktail. “Tales” is the preeminent cocktail event in the nation, and probably the biggest convention of bartenders in the world. With press credentials secured based on my existing food and beverage blog, I went out […]