3 S Cocktails

Farm to Drink: Sweet Concoctions

Posted FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

 

 

In these final few days of summer, it’s particularly important to make an effort to enjoy the last of the season’s ripe fruit. (There’s plenty of time this autumn and winter to sip straight whiskey and fix Manhattans.)

To help you mix up some delicious and refreshing cocktails, we asked award-winning bartender and Liquor.com contributor Charlotte Voisey to host a series of four short films for us. The first, just released, is Farm to Drink: Sweet Concoctions

via Farm to Drink: Sweet Concoctions – Featured Articles — Liquor.com.

Food Plate? Try the new Drink Pyramid.

Over the years, the booze that finds its way into my glass has changed. My foray into cocktails was a horrific ride on Captain Morgan’s pirate ship to Kahlua Bay, with stops to pick up shipmate Mike and his hard lemonade and this odd fellow named Yuengling who always carried a treasure chest of copper with him. He used to lick it at night – it was very strange. But, without getting into too much more detail, let’s just call this time period “The Dark Ages.”

From there, I discovered simple, but exciting new things. For example, gin was actually good in things other than a Long Island Iced Tea and whiskey was aggressively delicious. And as I’m sure any cocktail geek would say, the adventures that followed involved the unwavering desire to research and acquire every possible spirit, bitter, and syrup on the planet. Though at the end of the day, there is always Tecate or Old German in a can.

via Drink Pyramid | Kaiser Penguin.

Hmmm, do we want them to define Moderate or should we just go with a definition that makes us look good??

CDC Study Recognizes Moderate Alcohol Consumption As One of Four Key Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors

Washington, DC – A new study by the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirms that moderate alcohol consumption is one of four healthy lifestyle behaviors that help people live longer.

via Discus.

Robot bartenders? I think not.  Pretty confident my job is safe…

Quantum logic could make better robot bartenders

15:28 06 September 2011 by Melissae Fellet

 

 

Creating robots with multiple personalities may be one way to make them act more like us.

Despite their reputation as a psychological disorder, we all have multiple personalities. Controlled personality switching helps us juggle our daily roles – as workers, parents and spouses, for instance. In contrast, robots are usually programmed to respond to situations by following a single set of rules, which makes them inflexible. To trigger a personality switch in robots, quantum logic, with its limitless and apparently random outcomes, could do the trick.

via Quantum logic could make better robot bartenders – tech – 06 September 2011 – New Scientist.

Hmmm, seems vaguely familiar…

Turbinado

Contributed by Jackson Cannon

Posted TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 06, 2011

 

 

via Turbinado – Rum – Cocktail Recipes — Liquor.com.

The Next Big Thing in Cocktails?

By A buck twenty-five

It is undeniable that the craft cocktail movement is here. Individual drinks of fresh fruit juices, quality liquors and, in many cases, very precise measurements can be found all across the country. Just in New Orleans, you’ll be able to track down such drinks at bars in pretty much every section of the city and just as many restuarants. But as people continue to dig into the history of cocktails, they begin to realize that punches really paved the way. And I’m not talking those frat party Jungle Juice concotions, but real honest to goodness, tasty punches. Only problem is people are so particular and individual that making large punches for the entire bar probably wouldn’t go over that well these days.

via The Next Big Thing in Cocktails? « Just Off The Red Streetcar Line.