July 2012
10 posts
Finding New Markets →
economist.com
A slightly more serious article today from The Economist takes a look at how large booze companies are trying to tap new markets. That said, some of the products they’ve developed in Africa sound downright interesting.
Another drink, Orijin, is designed for the emerging middle class: Africans with steady jobs and a bit of spare cash. Diageo noticed that a new drink—wines mixed with spirits and flavoured with herbs and spices—had taken off in the Caribbean. It also noticed that middle-class Africans had a penchant for products that project pride in African traditions. It put the two trends together and invented its own “traditional” African drink.
/LARC - Carla
Boozy Ice Cream Float Recipes →
huffingtonpost.com
Ice Cream Floats! With Booze! The Manhattan Float looks good right about now.
June LARC: Anonymous Cocktails
Last month we decided that we would have everyone send in some concocted cocktail names. I then assigned everyone one or two names to then create a cocktail that matched. Everyone only had their name, so wasn’t aware of what everyone else was doing. As each person made their cocktail, we wrote what we would have put in the cocktail ourselves and noted those in post-its. We then sampled many over the course of the evening.
Here is the full list we developed.
The Black Squirrel
Tears of the Clown
Mjölnir
Treasure Island
Devil’s Mayhem
Thorn In The Side
The Robber Barron
Miner’s Hat
Mermaid’s Kiss
The Power Grab
Too Broke, It Ain’t No Joke
Lasso Your Love
Bulleit Point
Bitter Blast
Fifty Shades of Booze
Werewolf Bar Mitzvah
Jurassic LARC
Pluto’s Demise
The Large Hadron Collider
The Hey Girl
Naughty Unicorn
Sailor’s Loveknot
Muddy Bottom Noodler
The Porcelain Doberman
Freak Out!
Peaches En Regalia
Herbivore
Whiskey Business
Subourbon
Tequila Mockingbird
Not by the hair of my Gin-ny Gin Gin
The Red Herring
A Polish Empress
Revenge of the Nerds
The Milky Way
The Nasty Dancer
Plenty of fodder in case we ever do this again!
/LARC - Carla
A Beautiful Post about Craft Cocktails →
thewilley.com
On being painstaking:
It’s hard to get across the equal love and care that went into a drink made out of sight of the guest, even if it signifies that it was even more involved and complicated to make, and so much more that we wouldn’t have time to do it in the moment.
Very worthwhile read.
/LARC - Carla
Top Hotel Rooftop Bars →
tablethotels.com
Tablet Hotels does beautiful photo essays and this one features delightful hotel bars. Here’s one on the West Coast! This makes me want do some travelin’ and some drinkin’
/LARC - Carla
