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2013 Tales of The Cocktail Nominations! is here! Tales of The Cocktail is America’s largest annual cocktail festival that brings together the best in the industry from all over the world for a week-long conference, celebration, and gathering. The 11th Annual Tales of The Cocktail and Spirited Awards take place in New Orleans, July [...] Even though the Tales of the Cocktail is the main focus for most Tales visitors it just appropriately happens to be that the event is held in the place where the cocktail was born which is the world´s funniest city – or at least i think so…. There´s no shortage of things to do [...] As everyone who have been to the Tales of the Cocktail knows, it´s not just a ton of seminars it´s also tastings, parties and events of all kinds…and there´s so much happening that it´s impossible to do it all, you will always miss out on things but on the other hand you´ll also do [...] Rum is my favorite spirit and this seminar took us through the history of rum in general and also it´s role in the tiki bars and how it is made – and they also let us taste 14 different rums and among them were some real gems. Tracing Rum’s pedigree from the earliest beginnings [...] This seminar took us through the history of drinking at the Panama Canal during the time the canal was built – something i didn´t know anything about – until David Wondrich and Jeff Berry with their usual engaging way of great story-telling took us there. The scandalous, murderous, delicious history of Panamanian alcohology. From [...] Who doesn´t like curacao? and who doesn`t use it? – but WHO has seen it being distilled live on stage? and been able to try it out after? – well…all the attendees of this seminar did.. “From the Bare Bellybutton Liqueur of 1500s Amsterdam to the very first orange liqueurs on Curacao, and from [...] When i went to this seminar i didn´t know that very much about Stephen Crane but Martin Cate did enlighten us and he did it very well including serving a Tiki Bowl with long straws garnished with fresh colorful pansies. Much has been written about the two founding fathers of the tiki drink craze [...] Time to change pace and content on this blog for a while…so i`m taking a break from my normal cocktail posts… I`m now in New Orleans again and will cover the Tales plus you may expect everything and anything New Orleans during the upcoming month depending on time permitting…so keep an eye for the Tales [...] This years Tales of the Cocktail celebrates it`s 10 year anniversary and that is a promise of even more frenzy as usual so gear up if you`re planning to go! Among the sessions i`m planning to attend is “Curacao – the ultimate guide to the world´s favorite liqueur flavor” “From the Bare Bellybutton Liqueur [...] |
          
         
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