The complexity of a cocktail doesn’t always translate well into food, but I’ve found a reliable medium in the form of classic pound cake. As summer is winding down and there is a ton of fresh fruit at the market, I have been breaking these out more often. It’s simple even if you’re not a […]
Category Archives: Booze
New Nocino Recipe
It’s green walnut season again… nope, it’s over. These things are only around for a few weeks, so grab them while you can. The last time I cranked out a significant batch of nocino was 2010, and I loved it, but my partner in crime at the time found the menthol and herbal flavors too intense (the term she […]
Three More Equal Parts: The Simplest Cocktail Recipes Expanded
It doesn’t get much easier than this: equal measures of three ingredients to make these six fantastic cocktails from only eight bottles – and now I have an excuse to make a new Venn Diagram (here is last week’s). Stir ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass or an old fashioned glass with a big […]
Three Equal Parts: The Simplest Cocktail Recipes
It doesn’t get much easier than this: equal measures of three ingredients to make these four fantastic cocktails from only six bottles – and now I have an excuse to make a Venn Diagram. Stir ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass or an old fashioned glass with a big cube of ice. Garnish with […]
Bitters Kits and Cocktail Recipes
Always a hot holiday gift, I’ve expanded my offering of DIY Cocktail Bitters Kits to include new flavors and Mini Bitters Booster Kits. (Underlined text all links to the corresponding item in my online store if you are looking to purchase) If you’re wondering how to use them, you can start off by replacing the Angostura, orange or […]
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 […]