The second Monday of November saw another Number Ten Symposium, and this time we explored the new ways that both blending and second barrel finishing of American whiskeys are changing…
I don’t know what the percentages are for Americans who get the main part of news online, but I suspect that it is significant and getting bigger. I use Google…
Let me offer the sort of information that can help readers weed me out for any and many views I hold: I was a Sanders supporter for his nomination as…
It was back to Bourbon for the Number Ten Third Whiskey Tasting Symposium, and a different format: The Blind Tasting. I presented a range of Bourbon from the moderately priced…
The Number Ten Second Whiskey Tasting Symposium, A Wry Old Rye and Other Tales of Aging took place on Monday, September 10, 2018, as I ramp up the tasting program now…
On April 30 (2018), the first whiskey tasting took place at Number Ten, as part of an open-ended Number Ten Symposium series. The first one was called Number Ten First…
Chilling. Chilling cocktails. So many have fallen in the great craft cocktail wars due to this one simple task: making the cocktail cold. I was at a very nice hotel…
I put a lot of work into the inaugural American Whiskey List for Number Ten. For instance, I had to research availability, which, as the robustly active Bourbon and Rye…
An obvious but essential part of making good cocktails: Have a well that is good and choose great premium stock. Also, use fresh fruit and daily fresh-squeezed lemon and lime…
We’ve been hard at work transforming Castle Street Café into No10, and part of that work has me building an American Whiskey list that should delight any American whiskey lover,…
Some drink recipe sites offer—I’m not kidding—over 50,000 recipes. That sort of site is to be rigorously avoided, although, frankly, I can’t say one way or another if that’s because…
The bar I’m managing at Castle Street Café has been shaping up, but work continues as we approach a short shutdown for some physical renovations to the bar and room…
I like Liquor.com, despite the brand promotion that takes place within so many of its cocktail recipes, the frequent posts to my inbox, and the ads and links to other…
According to Art Blakely, I am real, if I’m hearing the tune right, the beat right, the flights of the sax right, listening to “Am I Real?”. If you are…
I was in Seattle for a few days, and since the city has the reputation as a “craft cocktail” city, I made sure to check out Happy Hour. Happy Hour…
My son-in-law, a bright and lovely fellow, also happens to be something of a cocktail nut, and one of the many pleasures of his company (rare as that may be…
The Manhattan is a simple cocktail—typically three ingredients—but its simple structure allows a lot of variations and alternative ingredients that can make excellent cocktails. The Manhattan is a popular cocktail.…
It kind of makes sense that there is a cocktail called Opera at CSC, considering that our neighbor is Mahaiwe Theatre and Mahaiwe Theatre is an HD multi-cast site…
For goodness sake, ask your bartender what the hell the well is for your particular cocktail. For example, if you’re ordering a gin and tonic (a highball, not a cocktail,…
Pestilence, mass shootings, war, large-scale lootings of national economies. Sure, things look bad and it is sometimes hard to see meaning and hope in this world of ours. On the…
Ah, the Martini. One of the fundamental cocktail structures–spirit and vermouth (think, too, of the Martini’s close sibling, the Manhattan)—the history of the Martini is mythical. One of the earliest…
And the last shall be first, by which I mean the last cocktail on the new menu is the first one I want to let you know about. The cocktail…