January 2011
59 posts
A Bartender's Insight. (#1?)
Look, I know I talk about this a lot, definitely more than I’ve ever talked about any other job before, but no job I’ve ever worked (retail, serving, construction, video editor, sound engineer, etc.) is quite as interesting.
If you think bartending is an easy and a stressless job since all you do is make people happy with alcohol, let me be the first to tell you straight up, buddy:...
Cocktails To Try #4: Pimm's Cup
The last cocktail I posted was hugely masculine and though this one was intended to be unisex in its roots, it has gained popularity in recent years mainly by women and I find that women in general enjoy this one more than men.
Ladies, this one’s for you.
What the Mint Julep is to Kentucky, horse racing and Derby Day, Pimm’s Cup is to England, tennis and specifically Wimbledon....
Cocktails To Try #3: Rusty Nail
This is probably the most manly drink I’ve come across in old cocktail recipe books and with a name like “Rusty Nail,” would you expect anything less?
Some of you have probably never had Drambuie before and there’s a reason for that. In Gaelic, the word means “The drink that satisfies,” but it probably hasn’t satisfied any regular human being’s...
Coctails To Try #2
For all those that think the “Tequila Sunrise” is about as good as the awful song by The Eagles and think Tequila itself is best done on a night when you plan on sleeping in until 2pm the next day, this one is for you.
Tequila, aside from having the comical effect of remembering that scene from Pee Wee’s Big Adventure is one of the oldest alcoholic beverages on the planet. There...
mollymillions asked: Ive had one Long Island Iced Tea. Nastiest drink on the planet, hands down. And this is coming from someone who loves the fuck out of Dead Nazis.
Cocktails To Try #1
I know I’ve done cocktails recipes in the past, but I thought I’d just make this a regular feature. This feature will spotlight either original concoctions of my own or old-school cocktails for you to try.
Since I view Tumblr as somewhat as a New York City thing since it started there and is still most popular there, I’d thought we’d go for an old-school NYC cocktail to...
Thoughts On Bartending #2
With a plethora of old-school, complicated cocktails that nobody’s ever heard of in my brain at any given moment, I still have no fucking clue what’s in a Long Island Iced Tea or the correct proportions of it.
If you order a round of Yager Bombs at a bar on a weekday night with 10 other people in it, don’t be surprised if those 10 other people turn you down. Yager Bombs are...
Looking to drink tonight, Pittsburgh?
Tonight at the bar where I work, I’m bringing in almond milk and making this for anybody that would like to try one:
The New Age Cowboy
2 parts Bourbon
1 part almond milk
ground cinnamon
Drink is served over ice.
This drink is my own concoction and basically my answer to the White Russian since I don’t like vodka and love bourbon. If you’ve ever had Horchata, it’s...
It's gonna' be one of those days →
An Apple store was broken into and $10,000 worth...
Police are optimistic that both computers will be recovered.
One of the two things you don't talk about at the...
A regular at the bar: “You’re Jewish, right?”
Me: “Yeah.”
“I saw that Coen Brothers movie True Grit and loved it, so decided to go watch A Serious Man since I hadn’t seen it.”
“And you hated it, right?”
“Yeah! I felt like an outsider watching it and that I had to be Jewish to understand it.”
“That’s exactly...
Anonymous asked: picture of kris kristopherson without a beard
What do you call 53 guys watching the AFC...
The Baltimore Ravens.
Thoughts On Bartending: Day 1
A new legal drinker dude (21 as of less than a month ago) who orders Old Fashioned’s has no idea what’s actually in an Old Fashioned, they just watch Mad Men and saw Don Draper order it.
New legal drinker dude wonders what’s taking his drink so long when he asked for an Old Fashioned which is at least a 6 step process, the first of which involves muddling a number of fruits and...
Snowpocalypse II Checklist
Somehow, these were all donated and cost me nothing:
Half case of Duquesne Pilsner (Thanks Nick Divers!)
Half case of Brooklyn Lager (Thanks Nick Divers!)
Bottle of WIld Turkey 101 Proof (Thanks fiancee!)
Bottle of Evan Williams (Thanks Tom Hughes’ friend Katy!)
Hit me with your best shot, snow! I’ve never been more ready for you!
I've heard food blogs are popular, so
I’m going to start a food blog of what I feed my cat every day. I don’t make cat food mind you, I just buy him food from PetSmart. Here’s my thinking on this: People love posting pictures of what they eat for lunch/dinner. People also love cats. This cannot fail.
WatchSongs I Sing To My Cat: Sung to the chorus of Wiz Khalifa’s “Black & Yellow”
