unofficial stories.

A.
Had a first and hopefully last time experience tonight. I am not sure what happened. to shorthand the infrastructure of the space, there is 8 living spaces above us. i dont know if a water heater sprung a leak or if someone O.D.'d while running a bath, but water was running two floors above us and around 9pm on a Saturday it started raining indoors. I am extremely proud of how we handled the unexpected occurrence. Our man Pablo, whom I call Guapo, was an all-star.

B.
There has been some things said around town regarding a certain feminine bachelorhood party where someone got flak about ordering a round of lemon drop shots. Granted I've been eschewing vodka lately by making ketel one old fashioneds and lemon drops with egg whites but I had my world rocked by E.Hack when he made me a Bison sour which is apparently a Milk&Honey recipe.

Upon further review its a flavored vodka egg white sour, which for as uncool as it sounds it absolutly delicious.
2oz. Bison Grass vodka
1/2 oz. lemon
1/2 oz. simple
egg white
Cinnamon garnish

What I've been drinking.

Scotch. Water. Ice.

cover a shift, meet someone cool.

I've been covering shifts left and right between the 3 places and last night had the pleasure of making drinks for Eden Algie, Brand Ambassador for The MaCallan. Made a few scotch heavy blood and sands and also whipped up this number that I was happy with.

2oz. MaCallan 12 (considering it was the Ambassador I should have used the 18 - really when is someone going to do a cocktail with that?)
.25 Benedictine
.25 Maraschino
.25 St. Germain
Flamed Lemon zest.

You know what? Life does a 180@ya sometimes.

So just to start out..... This is the second official post from my Iphone.

My beloved computer which has been my sidekick for the past year and eight months has gone into a coma. The power is there but the screen is blank all the time now. I'm working on a replacent but also don't want to lose data from that machine. All of the seminars and photos from NOLA #TOTC were on there.

So in keeping it short while I don't have the use of my lappy I am just going to post recipes for the next little time being while I'm confined to my phone.

Starting soon.

MxMo : Vodka is my what?!?!?!?

Augusts MxMo is being help over at Felicia's Speakeasy and the theme for this month is Vodka is your friend.

The theme of August 10th’s Mixology Monday is “Vodka is Your Friend.” The recent high profile bashings of vodka interspersed with a few weak “yeah, buts…” left me wondering, is vodka the axis of evil, our most dangerous enemy? While it may not be the life of the party, experts agree: Vodka’s obituary does not have to be written just yet.

Yup.... I'm one of the haters. I've done my time drinking vodka tonics by the pint and worked high volume bars where vodka sodas are 90% of liquor sales. I'm not going to elaborate much more. However, here's a recipe that I've been putting in front of vodka drinkers

Piece de Resistance



2 oz. Vodka ( It has to be Grey Goose, or Ketel One,or Ciroc, or...... ah what the hell is the difference.)
3/4 oz Cointreau
1/4 oz Benedictine
Dash of orange bitters

Good News!

Things just keep being great.

I was informed today that i will be working at Tavern Law ( http://tavernlaw.com ) one day a week and keeping my schedule otherwise set.

One year older.

10 years of legal drinking! a new reason to celebrate being 31.