Showing posts with label alcohol. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alcohol. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Japan's best bartender does some fancy stuff with ice

@foodporn Japan's best bartender has so much auraπŸ₯Ά #japanfood #tokyofood #aura ♬ Japanese-style dramatic piano song - γ‚Ήγ‚Ώγ‚Έγ‚ͺ　Music Rabbit
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Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Punch posted the list of finalists for its Best New Bartenders 2025

Full list here. I looked up Kenzo Han and Firstborn in Chinatown in LA:



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Thursday, August 22, 2024

California is contemplating a law that would give special alcohol-buying privileges to members of Ballmer stadium's private luxury suites

LAT:
It is illegal to serve alcohol in California between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m., and bartenders who do could be charged with a misdemeanor.
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The bill, which was approved with little debate on the Senate floor Tuesday and now heads to the Assembly, would allow alcohol to be served until 4 a.m. to dues-paying members of private suites inside of Intuit Dome, the $2-billion, 17,700-seat new home of the Los Angeles Clippers
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the legislation has drawn criticism as an unfair abuse of financial and political power.
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Monday, August 14, 2023

Thousands of bottles of wine illegally aged in the ocean off California destroyed pursuant to a plea agreement

San Luis Obispo Tribune on a long list of violations:
Ocean Fathoms, started sinking wine 1 mile off the coast of Santa Barbara in 2017, and for years, they did not get the required permits from the California Coastal Commission or the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, according to the District Attorney’s Office. 

Each crate was left on the seafloor for more than a year, allowing reef ecosystems to develop on the bottles. The crates were removed after a year with the sea life still living in them. 

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Monday, May 15, 2023

"Darth Vader" mixed drink

Rum, cherry schnapps, cherry syrup, sprite, and a tiny bit of showmanship:

@sincitybartender there is simply no greater villain in existence #darthvader #starwars #sincitybartender ♬ Star Wars - The Imperial March Theme - Geek Music
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Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Ten funny tweets






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Friday, September 20, 2019

Jellyfish Shot





Different recipe here.

*Previously: Deluxe PatrΓ³n x Guillermo del Toro set
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Saturday, September 14, 2019

Ten funny tweets






















































*More funny tweets.
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Monday, September 9, 2019

You can pet Cerberus in this video game; Official Doom Bone Vodka; Kojima supports "very easy mode"



































*Buy Control at Amazon.
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Saturday, September 7, 2019

"How Tax Policy Gave Us White Claw"

NYMag:
Because White Claw is brewed like beer, it’s taxed like beer, which is important because beer is taxed in the U.S. at a much lower rate than spirits. If you made a product similar to White Claw by mixing vodka with seltzer and putting it in a can, a six-pack would be subject to almost $2 in additional taxes when sold in New York City.

Because of this tax quirk, beverage companies have long sought ways to make flavored cocktail-like beverages for the U.S. market by brewing instead of distilling.

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The key advancement with White Claw and its competitors in the “spiked seltzer” market is the use of sugar base for fermentation
*Previously: "Inside the Biggest Wine Hoax in History"
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Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Ten more funny tweets
















































*More funny posts.
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Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Bud Light "Victory Fridges" are being placed throughout Cleveland

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Monday, August 13, 2018

Beer bat; Shrimp mug



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Thursday, August 10, 2017

"Inside the Biggest Wine Hoax in History"

Eater:
Beginning about 2002 and until spring 2008, as Wall Street plunder and heady real estate values made many Americans rich or richer, Kurniawan fed the hunger for oldest and rarest wine, cost be damned. How had he, still in his twenties, managed to acquire this seemingly limitless lode of introuvables? Kurniawan offered plausible, if unprovable, explanations. Early on, he claimed to have bought the cellar of a wealthy family in Florida. But even a very large private cellar could not keep on giving at the rate that Kurniawan was selling.

And so a new, more intriguing story began making the rounds: Kurniawan had acquired, possibly with a partner, a huge trove of old French wines in Europe. It was dubbed the “Magic Cellar,” or as Acker’s John Kapon called it, “THE Cellar.” Its lineage was said to go back more than a century to a time when the then-dominant French retail wine shop chain, Nicolas, purchased large quantities of the finest French wines directly from the most renowned vineyards.

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Few collectors, especially those new to the game, actually knew what the real thing should taste like. “It’s surprisingly easy to fob off flawed or inauthentic wine,” says Wilf Jaeger. “At a certain point, people have drunk too much and they are not paying attention.”

Even if they are paying attention, and do question a wine, they are unlikely to “kill the buzz” at a festive table
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Monday, July 24, 2017

The deluxe PatrΓ³n x Guillermo del Toro set is available for preorder



$475. And not remotely the most expensive item on the page.
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Wednesday, June 21, 2017

"George Clooney is selling his tequila company Casamigos to Diageo for $1 billion"

"If you asked us four years ago if we had a billion dollar company, I don't think we would have said yes"
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Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Prohibition "halted the rise of small local brewers"

From a lengthy article titled "The End of Craft Beer":
Prohibition (1920-1933) interrupted the progress of the American brewing industry. A little known fact: it also halted the rise of small local brewers, who had been growing at a faster rate than the national breweries since 1895 and had steadily been cutting into the big boys’ profits.[7] Prohibition was hardest on them because they did not have the capital reserves to weather the hard times or switch production to non-alcoholic goods. By the time Prohibition ended, the field had winnowed and the giants were poised to conquer it.

Conquer it they did. The second half of the twentieth century witnessed a formidable concentration of the brewing industry. There were 421 mass-producing beer companies in 1947, but only 24 in 2000, three of which—Anheuseur-Bush, Miller, and Coors—accounted for nearly 89% of U.S. beer production. The consolidation of the post-World War II market bore little resemblance to that of the late nineteenth century. The brewers of the industrial revolution had proudly touted their quality and consistency. The postwar breweries, by contrast, shifted to selling lifestyle. Technological advances, once a driver of quality, now served to cut production costs. Small firms had to discount their beer just to compete, leading to price wars that they were destined to lose.

To put it simply—the costs of entering the beer market were high, profit margins slim, and the chance of failure great. All economic signs from 1980 on should have pointed to futility for small breweries. Yet this was precisely when craft beer flourished. Just as the industry was consolidating at the top, diversity in production was increasing at the bottom. Eighteen microbreweries were producing beer in 1984. A decade later the number was 537. By 2016, it was over 3,000.

There were structural reasons for the rise of craft beer.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Is James Coburn a host in these old beer commercials?









Via.
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Sunday, January 31, 2016

"How one distillery worker enlisted friends, family, and a few fellow steroid enthusiasts to liberate hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of premium bourbon, one barrel at a time."

The Great Whiskey Heist:
in 1969, bourbon was in the dumps. The postwar gentleman's drink was giving way to booze that went better with cranberry juice and pink umbrellas. By 1976, vodka had become America's most popular liquor. Distilleries throughout Kentucky shut down or were sold.

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When Julian Van Winkle III took over the company, in 1981, he was selling so little whiskey that he decided to try an experiment. Most bourbon spends between four and eight years inside a barrel. Van Winkle wanted to see what would happen if he let some of his sit in the barrel for, well, he wasn't quite sure how long.

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the Beverage Testing Institute, which, in 1997, after Van Winkle had finally opened his barrels, handed his 20-year-old whiskey a 99 rating — the highest ever given to a bourbon. The timing of that rating couldn't have been better. The craft beer movement was reviving American tastes for alcohol with flavor, and bourbon presented itself as a sophisticated drink with a sheen of frontier authenticity.

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the demand still outpaces supply — after all, it takes 23 years to make 23-year-old bourbon. An app and a Twitter feed track Pappy sightings; even empty Pappy bottles can sell for $300. If you want the real thing, your best option just might be to steal some.
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Thursday, July 23, 2015

"Lululemon is expanding its product line...to to include beer"

"Lululemon's Curiosity Lager is a 'crisp, bold session lager' with 4.6 percent alcohol by volume"
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