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• Spiked Desserts: 75 Booze-Infused Party Recipes
I don’t know about y’all, but I like to have my cake…and drink it too. Let me rephrase, if I can get drunk off of a cupcake, best believe I’m going to do it. Thanks to amateur seamstress and author Peg Couch, we now have a recipe book at our disposal that highlights 75 Booze-Infused [...]
• United States of Craft Beer: Guide to Best U.S. Watering Holes
“The United States is now the undisputed beer capital of the world, home to the most vibrant beer culture anywhere.” Thus has spoken the oracle; the beer oracle, that is, Garrett Oliver, brewmaster of the Brooklyn Brewery and editor of the massive “The Oxford Companion to Beer,” in the foreword to
• Winner Best Cocktail Book: Vintage Spirits & Forgotten Cocktails
This book was the winner at Tales of the Cocktails in New Orleans for best cocktail/bartending book. 100 rediscovered recipes and the stories behind them. A fantastic read. Drink your way through it! Enjoy!
• Left Coast Libations: The Art of West Coast Bartending: 100 Original Cocktails
Left Coast Libations: Nominated for Best Cocktail Book of the Year by Tales of the Cocktail! “This fall has seen the publication of another great book: Left Coast Libations by Ted Munat. Ted’s book ascends to a new plateau of inspired cocktail writing. The book is outstanding, outrageous, irreverent, challenging, and enticing. It’s a must [...]
• gaz regan’s Annual Manual for Bartenders 2011
gaz’s latest book is the first of what will become an annual manual (the hints in the title) which he will update and expand each year. The book is split up into four sections – A Serialized Autobiography focusing on gaz’s first 17 years of life (but not as yet explaining when he stopped being [...]
• Is this the geekiest or coolest – wine glass holder necklaces?!
Whaddya think? Want one? Yeah? Buy here.
• Which wine aerator provides the best bang for your buck?
THE QUESTION: Which wine aerator provides the best bang for your buck? They all seem to do the same thing and even the Vinturi has a specific white-wine and red-wine aerator. What’s the difference? THE ANSWER: Aerators are all the rage in the wine-accessories world. I’ve tried out countless versions. Aerators are designed to improve [...]
• Craft Beers of the Pacific Northwest: A Beer Lover’s Guide to Oregon, Washington & British Columbia
Traveling to the NW? Don’t forget your guide! Craft Beers of the Pacific Northwest is a suds-soaked adventure through the 115 key breweries and brew pubs in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. Lisa Morrison, a.k.a. The Beer Goddess, has included every brewery worth visiting, from pioneers like McMenamins, whose Hillsdale Brewery and Public House in [...]
• Wine & War: The French, The Nazis & The Battle for France’s Greatest Treasure
Wine & War: “It’s a hell of a story” The remarkable untold story of France’s courageous, clever vinters who protected and rescued the country’s most treasured commodity from German plunder during World War II.”To be a Frenchman means to fight for your country and its wine.” –Claude Terrail, owner, Restaurant La Tour d’ArgentIn 1940, France [...]
• Vertical, the sequel to Sideways
Miles and Jack are back. It’s seven years later. Miles has written a novel that has been made into a wildly successful movie, and the movie has changed his life. jack, contrarily, is divorced, has a kid, and is on the skids. Phyllis, Miles’s mom, has suffered a stroke that’s left her wheel-chair bound and [...]
• History in a Glass: Sixty Years of Wine Writing from Gourmet
When Gourmet magazine debuted in the 1940s, America’s wineries were still reeling from the lingering effects of Prohibition and the loss of wines from war-torn Europe. But for every closed door, there was an open bottle: The bleak postwar years were actually a prelude to today’s unprecedented and widespread appreciation for the grape. Gourmet editor [...]
• The Billionaire’s Vinegar: The Mystery of the World’s Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
For anyone interested in wine, this book is simply a must. First of all, it takes you into a rarefied world few us will ever have the chance to partake. There is that tiny upper echelon, in terms of income, who have the pocket change to buy bottles and bottles of rare wines and stoke [...]
• Gift a Breathalyzer. Could be a livesaver.
Breathalyzers…hey, you should totally have one on hand to check your party guests before they jump into their potential death mobiles. Oh sorry, didn’t mean to be such an alarmist. But, really, it’s a nice gesture to have on hand to make sure everyone stays safe. And, you can keep one in your car for [...]
• Gifts for the Arrogant Bastard fan who loves everything Stone
Given: Stone Brewery makes some awesome beer. Giver: Gifts for the Arrogant Bastard fan who loves everything Stone.
• Need Inspiration? How About An Amazon Gift Card?
An Amazon gift card seems like the answer when you’re racking your brain for gift inspiration. The world is your gift-giving oyster! Buy here…oh, and one for yourself!
