Published October 2020 at Distiller Magazine, my bottle column covers trends and reviews international spirits here, with taste ratings:
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New Rules of Engagement: How 9 Bars Around the Globe Are Coping & Changing in Pandemic
Having visited over 20,00 bars around the globe, The Cocktail Lovers’ Change issue was about talking to nine special bars around the globe about how they are coping and changing in pandemic — and what their countries are doing around aid.
DISTILLER Bottle Column: August 2020
Published September 2020 at Distiller Magazine, my bottle column covers trends and reviews international spirits here, with taste ratings: Read more →
DISTILLER Bottle Column: July 2020
Published August 2020 at Distiller Magazine, my bottle column covers trends and reviews international spirits here, with taste ratings:
DISTILLER Bottle Column: June 2020
Published July 2020 at Distiller Magazine, my bottle column covers trends and reviews international spirits here, with taste ratings:
DISTILLER Bottle Column: May 2020
Published June 8, 2020, at Distiller Magazine, my bottle column covers trends and reviews international spirits here, with taste ratings…
DISTILLER Bottle Column: April 2020
Published May 4, 2020, at Distiller Magazine, my bottle column covers trends and reviews international spirits here, with taste ratings.
DISTILLER Bottle Column: March 2020
Published March 19, 2020, at Distiller Magazine, my bottle column covers trends and reviews international spirits here, with taste ratings.
The State of Our Bar Community is Dire
Published March 22, 2020, at Distiller Magazine, I wrote this piece the week prior and much has shifted each day, including the welcome regulatory relief for the state of California from the ABC last Thursday (these are law changes that should be permanent, “relieving” archaic, impractical Prohibition-esque holdovers). More on all that later. My friend Eric Grenier of Jack Daniels is compiling… Read more →
Chasing the Funk: R(h)um Lovers Latest Rum Favorite is Haitian Clairin
Published at NYC’s new Barcademy in February 2020, my article on r(h)um funk or hogo, namely Haitian clairin, including interview quotes from Calvin Babcock of Saint Benevolence in Haiti. My article here. “Funk” is a descriptor rum lovers are well acquainted with. The 18th-century term for funky rums is haut goût or hogo. Rum geeks often talk hogo or dunder, referring… Read more →