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Meet Local Whiskey Distilleries—Berkshire Mountain Distillery and The Craft Brewers Whiskey Project…and Tasting Samples!

This TalkTails was the first of what I expect will become a series of featured local (New England/New York) distilleries, and first up was Berkshire Mountain Distillery (BMD), Number Ten’s…

By David GuenetteMay 28, 2022Leave a comment
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New Old Cocktails—Pink, Drink, Delicious

The TalkTails on Monday, May 23 got back to cocktails I’ve been considering adding to The Number Ten Cocktail Menu, We’d mostly been looking at—and tasting, of course—different categories of…

By David GuenetteMay 26, 2022May 26, 2022Leave a comment
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Meet the New Whiskeys, Part 3 (Ryes)

The Number Ten Whiskey List has been expanded, and early in May we sampled some of the new rye arrivals, and talked about why they were selected and how these…

By David GuenetteMay 19, 2022Leave a comment
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Meet the New Whiskeys, Part 2 (Secondary Barrel Finishing)

Recently we sampled some of the new arrivals for The Number Ten American Whiskey List and we focused on second barreling, a growing trend in American whiskey, when the bourbon…

By David GuenetteMay 17, 20221 Comment
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Figuring Out Cocktail Menus, Part One

I’ll admit that I like titles with “Part One” in them, if for no other reason than these clearly suggest that the subject will be revisited, added on, and bring…

By David GuenetteMay 14, 2022May 14, 2022Leave a comment
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Meet the New Whiskeys, Part 1

Note: TalkTails, the actual real-world gathering of whiskey fans and cocktail curious alike, has finally resumed at Number Ten (Great Barrington, MA), where I’m bar manager.  During the shutdown and…

By David GuenetteMay 11, 2022May 11, 20221 Comment
DRG's Writings

Essay: Horsewhip Jeff Bezos, Part One

Let’s assume that I’m using “horsewhip” metaphorically and mainly to underscore (ouch!) the tenor of my argument. A lot gets said about Jeff Bezos, good and bad. In my former…

By David GuenetteMarch 4, 20211 Comment
DRG's Writings

Essay: Truth and Democracy and The Big Lie

“The Big Lie,” also known as “Stop the Steal,” is a big deal for American democracy. Former President Trump continues to propagate the fiction that the national election of 2020,…

By David GuenetteMarch 4, 2021Leave a comment
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Cocktails and COVID

I will confess that I’m missing bartending at Number Ten and helping guests expand their cocktail experiences by trying some drink they’ve never had, or, of course, just doing the…

By David GuenetteApril 27, 20202 Comments
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The Fifteenth Number Ten Symposium TalkTails: The Martini—Forward into the Past

The Fifteenth Number Ten Symposium TalkTails: The Martini—Forward into the Past took place on Monday, February 17, 2020, at Number Ten, 10 Castle Street, Great Barrington, as one of a…

By David GuenetteFebruary 25, 2020November 16, 2021Leave a comment
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Does Liquor Makes the Difference? Matching the Right American Whiskey to Your Manhattan

The Number Ten Fourteenth Symposium TalkTails took place at Number Ten, and the event was a different approach than usual, with the usual being tasting different whiskeys or exploring categories…

By David GuenetteJanuary 30, 2020Leave a comment
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Number Ten Thirteenth Symposium TalkTails Moonshine and Cocktails: Tasting White Dog Whiskeys and Figuring Out What to Do with Them

We had a nice, albeit smaller than usual group for the Number Ten whiskey/cocktail tasting and talk, this past Monday, November 18, 2019, at Number Ten, 10 Castle Street, Great…

By David GuenetteNovember 19, 2019Leave a comment
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Number Ten Twelfth Symposium TalkTails: Cocktails Eggsactly Right! Sours, Nogs, Flips, and Fizzes!

The use of eggs—either whole or parts thereof (such as egg white)—have been part of cocktails for nearly four centuries, if you go back to the days of adding an…

By David GuenetteOctober 21, 20191 Comment
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Number Ten Eleventh Symposium TalkTails: More Manhattan!

The first of the new season, Number Ten Eleventh Symposium TalkTails: More Manhattan!, was held on Monday, September 23, 2019, at Number Ten (10 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA). We…

By David GuenetteSeptember 26, 2019Leave a comment
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These Are Some of Our Favorite Things

Monday, June 10, 2019, had a full house for “Number Ten Tenth Symposium TalkTails: These Are Some of Our Favorite Things,” well, which largely turned out to be some of…

By David GuenetteJuly 19, 2019Leave a comment
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Now Serving Ten-to-Twelve

No, I’m not in prison, unless an obsession with American Whiskey counts as such. At the “Number Ten Ninth Symposium Whiskey Tasting: Now Serving Ten-to-Twelve,” we tasted older Bourbons and…

By David GuenetteJuly 4, 20191 Comment
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Gin or Lose, Liqueur and Booze, Now We Get to Drink Chartreuse

Actually, getting to know cocktails that have the ingredient of Green or Yellow Chartreuse means everyone wins. Charteuse is a distinctly flavored liquor from a secret formulation of 130 herbs…

By David GuenetteJuly 3, 2019July 3, 20191 Comment
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Number Ten Symposium: New Orleans Cocktails

On Monday, February 11, 2019, at Number Ten, New Orleans cocktails were celebrated. Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras, Jazz Town… New Orleans knows pleasure, and the number of terrific cocktails that…

By David GuenetteFebruary 14, 2019February 14, 2019Leave a comment
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Whiskey Tasting: Families and Flights

Another second Monday and another Number Ten Whiskey Tasting Symposium.  On Monday, January 14, 2019, we explored taste profiles within a particular distillery product line and compared two different distillery…

By David GuenetteJanuary 16, 2019Leave a comment
DRG's Writings

SPLIT

Split is a recent collection of short stories that thematically focus on divorce or other acute relationship collapse.  The writing of these pieces was no doubt related to my own…

By David GuenetteJanuary 16, 2019January 16, 2019Leave a comment
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THE WALL

The Wall is a novel-length work of stories set in the same place, at different times, with only some overlapping characters.  The Wall was started in the early 1980s, as…

By David GuenetteDecember 11, 2018January 17, 2019Leave a comment
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TalkTails Symposium Number One: Essential Cocktails and Essential Vermouths

Number Ten, where I tend bar, hosted TalkTails Symposium Number One: Essential Cocktails and Essential Vermouths, on Monday, December 10, 2018.  Helping others enjoy vermouth is a topic that is near and…

By David GuenetteDecember 11, 2018Leave a comment

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