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Breaking from the Dream
We get quiet for a moment in meditation. We sink down to a relaxedness, a calmness, abruptly free from all the crazy dreams we confuse with reality. And in that instant, by mistake maybe, or because we aren't thinking to stop it from happening-we experience, in a flash, things as they really are.
William R. Stimson
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August is
National Rum Month
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Rum
has gone by many names such as: Barbados water, demon water, grog, kill-devil, Nelson's blood, rhumbooze, rumbowling, rumbullion, rumbustion, and splice the main brace.
− Bacardi has the largest rum distillery in the world, located in San Juan, Puerto Rico. If you visit by cruise ship, skip the expensive excursion to tour the distillery. Instead, just pay twenty-five cents to ride the ferry. You can see the distillery where the cruise ships dock.
−Most rum is produced in the Caribbean and almost every island produces rum.
−Jamaica's Wray & Nephew overproof rum is the world's highest proof rum at 63 percent.
−In 1943, the Disney cartoon character Donald Duck drank cachaça, and in the same theater feature, Saludos Amigos (Spanish for "Greetings, Friends") Disney introduced a new character from Brazil named José Carioca.
−The most expensive rum is a 1940 bottle of J. Wray & Nephew. It is valued at $54,000.
− On January 15, 1919, at the U.S. Industrial Alcohol Company in Boston, Massachusetts, a cast-iron tank holding 400,000 gallons of molasses ruptured, creating a sixteen-foot-tall sticky tsunami through the Atlantic railway station, lifting a train off the track, injuring a hundred fifty people, killing twelve horses and twenty-one people, until it finally rested as a lake of molasses.
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Alcademics
Camper English is a San Francisco-based freelance writer and
consultant
who specializes in cocktails and spirits, with a touch of travel thrown in.
- Alcohol Professor is the class in all things bibulous, led by Amanda Schuster. Hosted by a stirred and shaken array of international writers you're led through a bottomless, high-proof course served clear as a crystal. Grab your tools and join our classroom. Cheers!
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- Art of Drink
was spontaneously created in October, 2005 as a way to document information on all things drink related. Currently Art of Drink is ranked among the top, if not the top, cocktail blogs on the internet.
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Beverage Testing Institute is a 39-year old company offering review and marketing services for the beverage trade. Check out
Tastings.com to read their spirits, wine and beer reviews, cocktail ideas, find upcoming tasting events, search their Drinkipedia, and more.
- Booze for Thought
is a blog by Charles Hardwick that's based on the belief that the best garnish for a great cocktail is a good story. And Charles tells a good story.
- The Cocktail Chroniclesis updated somewhat regularly by Paul Clarke, a Seattle-based cocktail enthusiast . . . I've taken the "roll your own" ethic of David Embury to heart, spending countless hours reading about, mixing and studying an array of cocktails, with a special emphasis on early- and mid-20th century classics.
- The Cocktail Guru Wanna See What Jonathan Pogash is Up To This Week? Go worship The Cocktail Guru.
- The Cocktail Whisperer Ever since he opened the tap on a barrel containing sherry at the ripe age of 7 in Spain, it's been all downhill from there. Warren makes you thirsty!
- Creative Cocktail Consultants Master Mixologist and Michelin Three Star Cocktail Consultant Brian Van Flandern is back and sharing his insight into everything cocktails. Read, respond, become a fan!!
- Drink Spirits Penned by Geoffrey Kleinman, this online magazine features spirited reviews, interviews and behind the scenes looks at many of the major spirit companies. Their motto is "Learn, Drink, Repeat", words to live by
- Gintime is just about gin - its history, production, cool cocktails, hot news and loads of other stuff. Edited by gin expert Geraldine Coates it's the essential guide to the juniper spirit.
- Good Spirits News reports on the latest trends in mixology from around the world. reviewing spirits, liqueurs, and bitters, the best new spirited publications, bartender competitions, and cocktail events. The site also includes interviews with the likes of gaz regan, Paul Pacult, and Dave Wondrich to name but a few.
- Jacopo Falleni posts a new cocktail recipe every week from his fine restaurants, Firenze Osteria, and Cafe Firenze in Los Angeles.
- Jeffrey Morgenthaler writes about bartending and mixology from Portland, Oregon
- The Liquid Muse was launched in 2006 by Natalie Bovis, a cocktail book author, freelance writer, and mixologist. With 20 years experience in front-of-the-house hospitality, Natalie now shares her favorite cocktail bars, spirits, and wines from around the world via her website, radio, video, and television.
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- Professor Cocktail
David J. Montgomery is a former newspaper columnist and professor of History. He writes about cocktails and spirits at Professor Cocktail, including reviews, recipes, and essays. His work has appeared in USA Today, the Washington Post, The Daily Beast, and other fine publications.
- The Rogue Barkeep is a New York City based site pursuant of travel, cocktails, and photography. This is the bringing together of those tumultuous loves.
- Spirits and Cocktails by Jamie Boudreau. Jamie's thirst for cocktail minutia is infamous, and if conversation turns to a subject that he is unsure of, you can be assured that he will research it as soon as possible. He has a love for the classics, but at the same time is always looking for new, exciting ingredients with which to try out new recipes.
- Spirits Review Reviews of booze, books, and barware. Also 4,500+ links, 400+ RSS feeds and extensive "Adventure" section chronicling adventures in alcohol in various forms. "We aim to be the google of booze"
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