Breaking with tradition, we offer special look at the top five cocktails to order this New Year’s Eve based on a few of our special criteria.
It’s time to celebrate! If we are sending the noughties out in style, we could at least be a little naughty. How about a quick run down of the best drinks for a fantastic time, but hey, let’s be sophisticated about things. Any joker can order martini, like comedy, the trick is in the timing. Of course, there’s no point in taking things to seriously, we are after all talking about a globally sanctioned booze fest – not exactly an intimate [...]
Doug over at the Pegu Blog reminded us that we still had unfinished work when it comes to understanding cocktails on the internet. Consider this little gem from the Google Trends Dept. It shows that the searches for ‘cocktail’, and ‘martini’ are positively correlated around the end of the year. What does that mean? New [...]
We haven’t forgotten about you. Still working on the fantastic prose. Sure it’s been a long time coming, but trust us, it will be worth it.
Reflections on a night out and how to learn about understanding [...]
A chance encounter at local bookstore followed by some gift lobbying found us in possession of great, and relatively recent new book: Cocktail Culture [amazon.com] by Mark Kingwell. Strangely enough it seems to go by the less intriguing name Classic Cocktails: A Modern Shake [amazon again] in the States.
There’s lot to like about this book [...]
Google confirms some things we suspected all [...]
The super low key launch for the Understanding Cocktails site. Start your beta engines and get your spell checker ready. Come join the [...]
A quick review about what the new iPhone app, Cocktail, might be of [...]
Musings and observations about an often sought after and out of print book that will soon be [...]
Work is progressing slowly on the site. The quality of the writing needs to be improved and some photographs need to be taken. All going well I hope to take the temporary homepage off and show the world at the end of October (that’s 2008 for those playing at home).