The Spirit World

When we were doing our Valentine’s Day series last week, I had planned to write about another cocktail recipe using Parfait Amour. The name is just too perfect to pass up for Valentine’s Day and, since Rosanne had provided one suggestion, I thought I’d provide another use for that bottle you may have purchased! […]

If you are interested in learning more about crafting cocktails, the Museum of the American Cocktail offers mixology seminars at locations around the U.S.
Over the next few months you can catch our own Robert Hess teaching three classes at Olivers in the Mayflower Park Hotel. Olivers has long been known for making the top […]

If you watched the Superbowl (I didn’t), you might have seen the new “Here’s to Beer” commercial from the Beer Institute paid for with money “donated” by Anheuser-Busch. If you missed it (I did), the commercial is playing on the opening page of the Here’s to Beer web site. It’s actually pretty good. It was […]

Some time ago I promised to talk about Spanish Coffee and I’m finally getting to it! I first discovered coffee drinks in the very late 70s. I was camping on the Oregon Coast and, as often happens, a big storm came in. Although we were hardy campers we decided to grab a […]

It’s Valentine’s Day — not a day typically associated with beer. Flowers, a box of chocolates, yes. But not beer, unless you are like me, then every holiday is an excuse for a trip to the beer store to buy something new and interesting. When Brenda said that my Brewsday column would […]

For Valentines Day I can think of no better cocktail to celebrate with than the Kir Royale. It has the obvious benefits of being Champagne for celebration, French for romance, and tinged with pink to take on the appropriate color. There is however another important aspect of this drink that makes it oh-so-appropriate, and that […]

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and most of you are thinking about chocolates and roses and other sweet and fragrant things to give to your sweetheart. If you are a beer lover you might be tempted to accompany the chocolates and flowers with a large bottle of chocolate or cherry flavored beer. […]

Perhaps your Valentine’s Day celebration includes children or an adult who abstains from alcohol for religious, health or other reasons. Or perhaps you just prefer to keep all your wits about you for one reason or another. There are still plenty of options to create a festive and fun beverage to celebrate the day!
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The Museum of the American Cocktail is making good use of its assets while working towards a permanent home. The collection was first housed in New Orleans and miraculously escaped Katrina’s wrath. Now the collection is hitting the road with an upcoming exhibit in Las Vegas. The show will be housed at […]

Today’s Valentine Cocktail provides a new way to get that holiday dose of chocolate! It seems to me that Créme de Cacao has fallen in and out of favor over the years, probably hitting its heyday when Grasshoppers were most popular. It deserves, however, to be considered on a more regular basis as […]