Drink Me Magazine
by Sarah Horn
Their gin makes people swallow their comments about drinking a pine tree. Instead the finish is orange peel and sweet floral.
Scott and Todd Leopold along with just two staff distillers make up Leopold Bros, a small-batch Denver based distillery that is among the most sustainable companies in its industry, recognized last year by the New York Times as producing the nations’ best gin.
Read more →…here’s our cocktail menu from the last one to give you an idea of the delicious kinds of libations you may experience there. Stay tuned….
Howdy, folks! Welcome to this week’s rendition of Booze In The News, where you’ll find the latest, funniest and most obscure newsworthy, alcohol-related bits all in one place.
1. Good news for women oenophiles! According to a recent study, wine may actually help women maintain a healthy weight. The study showed that women who consume moderate amounts of wine regularly gain less weight as they age compared to women who abstain completely. Yet the study found the opposite for men — men who drink over time become significantly more obese than their alcohol-free counterparts due to a greater amount of dehydrogenase enyzme in their bodies, which makes them absorb more alcohol calories than women. Sorry men. (more…)
More Happy Hours by Kevin Blum, City dish
1) Beefeater 24 Cocktail Contest at Rye
WHEN: Monday, March 8th. 7pm – 10pm.
WHERE: Rye
688 Geary St. @ Leavenworth
by Lou Bustamante
As I was having an email conversation with an old friend I’d reconnected with on Facebook, I was struck by the difficulty of describing my interest in spirits (and my profession) without conjuring up images of the movie “Leaving Las Vegas.”
Drunk. Lush. Alcoholic. Bar fly. Boozer. Lubricator. Those are some of the nicer names to describe people who enjoy fine spirits and cocktails, but those words don’t adequately define people like me. All those expressions characterize overindulgence instead of a refined interest in liquor. It would be like using the word glutton to describe a gourmet. It’s clear that we need a suitable name for ourselves.
Notes from the South Beach Wine & Food Festival
by Emily Nordee (www.emalamode.com)
Each year over 50,000 people flock to Miami’s Beaches at the end of February to attend the cool gastronomical event known as the SOBE Wine & Food Festival. Many festival guests travel from as far as California, while others come to escape the chilly East Coast temperatures, to indulge in the 4 days of epicurean delight. Now in its’ 9th year, the festival has become a major attraction to industry professionals and culinary enthusiast alike.
When an event is hosted by a tri-fecta of industry leaders, in this case; Southern Wine & Spirits, one of the nations largest liquor distributors, The Food Network and Food & Wine Magazine, you know it’s going to be a great party!
So, as the event kicked-off on Thursday, February 25th and the crowds of people started to populate the beachfront hotels hoping to catch a glimpse of their favorite food personality or chef, I reviewed the schedule of my “liquid” journey ahead! (more…)
