Calcium chloride, carbon dioxide, liquid nitrogen — you wouldn’t expect the stuff that you played with in chemistry class to find its way into your evening cocktail. Yet creative mixologists around the city are using science to invent new drinks for their menus.
Light, fruity concoctions at area bars aim to give the 21-and-older crowd a refreshing taste of summer.
Sweet drinks made with fresh fruit are among this year’s popular summer sippers, said Andrew Bassista, 33, of Middlesex, a bartender at Martell’s Tiki Bar in Point Pleasant Beach.
At the Corner Pub on Cincinnati’s west side, bartender Melissa Metz can count the cost of the economic hangover in the stack of bills she has at the end of a shift.Those tips make up the majority of her income, but they’ve been dwindling for months amid rising gas prices and other economic woes. Right now, her weekly income from tips is down about 25 percent.
His friends may call him a snob, and waitresses may give him odd looks, but David Turley isn’t about to drink a beer with chunks of ice floating in it.
The man credited with creating Carrie Bradshaw’s favorite tipple is in Belfast this week to add a little bit of New York glam to the local cocktail scene.
Dale DeGroff, who has made cocktails for American presidents, the Sex and the City actresses and popstars like Madonna, is the “Mr Big” of the international cocktail industry after his Cosmopolitan became one of the world’s most-sought after drinks.
Appleton Estate Jamaica Rum recently hosted an interactive bespoke Cocktail Academy at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel where attendees had the opportunity to discover the art of creating perfect cocktails from some of the world’s leading mixologists from IP Bartenders, Mahiki, and La Floridita bars in London and Tiger Lily in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Winter-warming liquids don’t have to be limited to soups. A host of warm winter drinks can thaw cold bodies in coming months.
It’s not so easy to know when to say when, especially when the amount of booze poured in bars, restaurants and clubs varies so widely.
Most alcohol research tends to deal in the standard drink — whatever contains 0.6 ounces or 1.2 tablespoons of pure alcohol, be it 1.5 ounces of 80 proof liquor, 5 ounces of wine, 12 ounces of beer or assorted spirits of other strengths.
If you sidle up to a bar and assume one drink an hour won’t make you legally drunk, think again. A new study finds that bartenders pack a lot more booze into common drinks than many people realize.
Pimm’s is the quintessential English summer drink, but it sometimes needs an introduction. Mine came in the late 1990s, when we were walking (the British euphemism for hiking) in the south of England. We stopped at a pub for a pint but then saw pitchers of an amber-colored punchy thing dotting picnic tables in the garden.
