Drinks After Dark

November 21st, 2008

Deck the halls and Decorate your Cocktails

Anyone who knows me knows I have a bit of a bah-humbug streak in me, but this is one Christmas movement I can get behind!
Tim Laird, dubbed America’s Chief Entertaining Officer (CEO) has some tips to make your holiday cocktails as pretty and festive as your freaky-about-Christmas friend’s Christmas decor.
Tim recommends using Tequila and Vodka […]

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November 20th, 2008

Bourbon TV

The CBS Early Show stole my idea! They beat me to the Bourbon Trail by just one day.
While I’ll be telling you a whole lot about bourbon and how it’s made, and all about my trip to Kentucky and Tennessee, you can get a visual sneak peek on Sunday morning.
A crew from the CBS Early […]

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November 10th, 2008

Headed South

On Wednesday morning, I’ll be winging my way down to Louisville and Lynchburg for distillery tours, talk to master distillers, and basically, as it was put to me, swim in bourbon.
I’m so looking forward to this trip, it’s not even funny! Maker’s Mark, Heaven Hill and Jim Beam on the Thursday, and Jack Daniels on […]

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November 5th, 2008

Vancouver’s HopScotch Festival returns!

Hopscotch, Canada’s largest beer and whisky and scotch festival, returns beginning November 11. The event brings brand industry experts and brand ambassadors together with connoisseurs to celebrate all the good things that scotch, whisky and beer are! (image courtesy Hopscotch)
Events during the festival include more than 50 exhibitors and 200 products to sip, swirl and […]

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October 31st, 2008

Virtual Cocktail Chatter

Each Thursday, fancy mixologists, cocktail geeks and bartenders gather in a chat room and geek out over cocktails. They create new recipes, try and out-do one another and pretty much drink all night. All in all, it’s a pretty fantastic time.
I know this is a day late, but Kaiser Penguin had the wrap up from […]

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October 26th, 2008

Halloween Drinks

Halloween is now about a week away. I still don’t have a costume, but I know exactly what I’ll be serving to friends on Friday night.  This is the first of the Drinks After Dark Halloween Recipes - there will definitely be more!
Vampire Juice
In a tall glass with ice mix:
2 oz Finlandia Lime Vodka
4 oz […]

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October 24th, 2008

Tuaca: Italian Culture comes to Canada

I’ve got a soft spot in my heart for versatile spirits, and Tuaca (pronounced Two-aww-ka) fits that bill perfectly. It’s also one of the most difficult spirits to describe. In fact, I’ve gone as far as pulling the bottle out of the fridge, read the back of the bottle and also looked through all the […]

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October 9th, 2008

Old Wive’s Tale: A Hot Toddy will cure a cold

I’m fighting a nasty cold at the moment, and as soon as people hear me speak, they figure it out pretty quickly and then tell me to go curl up and create myself one of many Old Wive’s Tales to cure the common cold.

So, what are these ‘cures’? They mostly centre around the Hot […]

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October 5th, 2008

Crystal Head Vodka

Funny-man Dan Aykroyd has done some… interesting things throughout his career (look at Ghostbusters II. Who thought that was a good idea?), but this might very well be one of the odder ones.

Crystal Head Vodka. The bottle is really really cool, but who knows what the vodka actually tastes like? The site itself doesn’t […]

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October 5th, 2008

Jim Beam Visitor’s Experience

Jim Beam bourbon recently announced a new, multi-million dollar Visitor’s Experience project at the Clearmont, KY distillery.

(L to R): Master Distiller Fred Noe (great-grandson of Jim Beam), head of the Visitor’s Experience Project Jim Beam Noe (great-grandson of Jim Beam), Kentucky Tourism Secretary Marcheta Sparrow and Jeff Conder, VP for North American Operations for Beam […]

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