Undoubtedly there are many of you in the cocktail world — bartenders and non-professional enthusiasts alike — who know the name David Embury (1886-1960). His book, The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, first published in 1948, is a highly respected tome on the essentials and basics of making a proper cocktail, with strong emphasis on [...]

Steve Schul and Paul Zablocki (Cocktail Buzz) ply their love for cocktails, mixology, and food pairings on their Web site, Cocktail Buzz and their blog “Buzzings” with videos that offer demonstrations of cocktail/appetizer pairings, recipes for meals to follow your cocktail, as well as a reviews of cocktail bars and restaurants in NYC and other [...]

Camper English is a freelance spirits and cocktails writer in San Francisco. He chronicles his explorations of fine drinking at Alcademics. Since they’re not up on the Tales site, I thought I’d use the Tales Blog to announce the panelists for the Regional Trends in American Cocktails session taking place Saturday, July 19th at 10:30 [...]

This is the first post from Robert Heugel, a Houston-based bartender and student of mixology. He publishes Drink Dogma. The look on the unsuspecting cocktail novice’s face when you crack an egg on the Boston shaker and carefully drop the white into their drink for the first time is priceless. In a matter of seconds, [...]

This is the debut post from Camper English, a freelance spirits and cocktails writer in San Francisco. He chronicles his explorations of fine drinking at Alcademics. Last year’s Tales of the Cocktail really got me thinking about regional cocktail trends. While much of the national reporting on cocktails concerns what’s happening in New York, not [...]