What to Read this Weekend – From Making Whiskey at Home to Who Invented the Cocktail

by Columbine Quillen on July 9, 2010

Hipster Moonshine

Hooch isn’t just for hillbillies anymore.

Really fascinating article from The Atlantic about making alcohol at home (it’s still illegal – but it’s not stopping people from trying their hand at their own boutique spirits).  If I only had more time…

Who Invented the Cocktail?

That depends on how you define invented. And cocktail.

David Wondrich is interviewed in this wonderful piece about the advent of the American Cocktail, can we thank the British for that also?

Going Pro

Are American Bartenders Professional Enough? Maybe…but There’s Still Work to be Done

In this world of mixology, is there a surplus of mixologists who don’t know how to bartend?  Portland based nationally recognized bar guru Jeffrey Morganthaler makes his argument.

- Columbine Quillen
I am a mixologist bartender and this is my blog.

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