The Spirit World

Next week we will start our “regularly scheduled program”. You can expect to see the writers’ columns on the following days:

Monday: Mixology 101
Tuesday: Brewsday
Wednesday: Drinks Around the World
Thursday: Happy Hour at Home

Channel knives are used for removing long slices of zest from citrus fruits. These slices of zest are then used as garnish for many types of cocktails.
I had been looking for a good channel knife to replace the subpar version that I had. Mine was okay but the cutting edge was […]

Hello and welcome!
The focus of this new blog, if you haven’t already guessed, is the world of spirits. Not as in the spirit of your beloved grandmother who seems to still be lingering in the garden she loved so much, but as in liquor and all you may associate with it! […]

Donavan Hall is a writer living on Long Island. He’s a veteran beer drinker, beer brewer, beer traveler, and beer podcaster. He writes about beer for Well Fed’s The Spirit World and other publications including A Good Beer Blog, Lenndevours, and his own blog, Catch & Release. You can listen to Donavan talk about his […]

Robert Hess, a Director at Microsoft, traces his interest in cocktail to a childhood fascination of bartenders who effortlessly transformed the contents of the bottles around them into gleaming jewels of refreshment. Eventually he took action on these early memories, absorbing all he could about the classic art of mixology. Using his culinary training as […]

Brenda Pederson has been enamored with cocktails since she was 6 or 7. Well, at least she was enamored with the teeny, tiny swords her parents would bring home after a night out! Once she figured out where to get those little swords she started a journey to collect as many of them […]