TotC - Saturday - Live Blogging Making Your Own Cocktail Ingredients

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Kaiser Penguin | 07/19/08 16:33

4:29pm - Our panelists today are Erik Ellestad, John Deragon, Jamie Boudreau, and Robert Hess. 4:33pm - Here are the cocktils for the session: Biffy Ccoktail 1 1/2oz Death’s Door gin 3/4oz Swedish Punch 3/4oz lemon juice Shake with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Marguerita 1oz Tequila por mi Amante ...

  TotC - Saturday - Cocktail Garnishes Live Blogging

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Kaiser Penguin | 07/19/08 16:24

This one was wonderfully covered by Craig Hermann from Tiki Drinks and Indigo Firmaments, but I snapped a few photos. So read his post and enjoy!

  Tiki Spirited Dinner

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Kaiser Penguin | 07/18/08 22:34

A momentous thanks to Chef Chris DeBarr, Jeff “Beachbum” Berry and his lovely wife, and Wayne Curtis for making a magical evening for all of us. I greatly enjoyed the spirited dinner at the Delachaise last year, but this blew it out of the water. For your salivating pleasure, here is the full menu (taken [...]

  TotC - Friday - Live Blogging Sensory Perception and Mixology

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Kaiser Penguin | 07/18/08 16:28

4:27pm - The panelists for this highly anticipated session are Darcy O’Neil, Robert Hess, Jamie Boudreau, Audrey Saunders, and Eben Freeman. In front of us is a mysterious and small manila envelope. If I had to wager, I’d say it contains taste strips. These strips may, indeed, make some supertasters in the [...]

  TotC - Friday - Live Blogging Rum, Ron, and Rhum

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Kaiser Penguin | 07/18/08 12:47

12:29pm - Our panelists today are Wayne Curtis, Angus Winchester, Ben Jones (Rum Clement) and Chesterfield Browne (Mount Gay). This is going to be an exciting one. 12:42pm - Here are the cocktails for the session: Winchester Swizzle 1 1/2oz Bacardi 8 1/2oz Rock Candy Syrup 1/4oz falernum 1oz lime juice Serve over crushed...

  Tiki Spirited Dinner

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Kaiser Penguin | 07/18/08 12:34

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  TotC - Friday - Jerry’s Kids - Live Blogging

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Kaiser Penguin | 07/18/08 10:48

10:46am - Ted Haigh begins by going into the origins of the cocktail. Most likely a warm whiskey cocktail, with bitters playing a very important role. Newspapers took the role of publishing recipes, but it took 60 years before cocktails were popular enough to publish in Jerry Thomas’s bar guide. 10:51am - Germans...

  TotC - Thursday - Making Your Own Spirits - Live Blogging

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Kaiser Penguin | 07/17/08 16:35

4:35pm - Mike McCaw, Matthew Rowley, and Ian Smiley are heading up this panel on artisan nano-distilling, and the bloggers are here in force. 4:37pm - Exciting! We’re going to get to try some moonshine. 4:43pm - There’s an excellent slide of Mountain Spirits by Joseph Earl Dabney on the screen. Joe, pictured on...

  TotC - Thursday - The Scented Trail - Live Blogging

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Kaiser Penguin | 07/17/08 14:45

2:43PM - Audrey Saunders and Tony Conigliaro are the presenters today. I didn’t make it to the panel last year, so this will be a treat.

  TotC Thursday - Molecular Mixology - Live Blogging

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Kaiser Penguin | 07/17/08 12:27

12:24pm - I got a good bit of flack last year from Jamie for live blogging many of the events, so I thought it only appropriate to put him through the gauntlet this year. 12:31pm - Here are the cocktails for the session: Chameleon 1 1/2oz Blueberry-magnesium infused G’Vine Gin 1/2oz St. Germain Elderflower Liqueur 1...