Diet Coke Fizz?

If you have spent more than 3 minutes in the hospitality business there is undoubtably some people who will really piss you off. How you maintain your composure, and your smile, and still make those people who piss you off want to come back and give you and your establishment some money is a small part of what makes you a good bartender. On the other hand, most of us would like to do something like this to more than one of our regulars.

Mentos Ice Cubes

It happened… I don’t want a drink

Chow.com finally did it. I ‘ want a drink right now. Craptails, The Worst 10 Cocktail Concepts of All Time. This does not disappoint with drinks like, The Salmon Colada, and Doctor Adkins (a drink that includes Spam with raw bacon garnish). I think I’ll just have a beer today.

Salmon Colada

Salmon Colada
3 ounces light rum
2 cups crushed ice
3 tablespoons pineapple juice
3 tablespoons coconut milk
1 ounce fresh Atlantic salmon
Salmon head, for garnish

Blend all ingredients and garnish with a salmon head.

If anyone at the party starts talking about the importance of Omega-3 fatty acids, merely gesture at your drink and say, “Eh? Eh? That enough for ya?” Later in the evening, give your salmon head a name and have it deliver monologues on the commercialization of independent cinema or why the French Laundry is past its prime.

You can look at the rest HERE if you dare.

Molecular Mai Tai 3000

Aside from the occasional batch of Jello shots for parties I have never really entered into Molecular Mixology. Hopefully this will be an aspect of mixology that I will soon conquer but for now, I will admire what others have done. Jamie Boudreau is an amazing bartender that has quite a few great molecular cocktails on his blog.

Mai Tai 3000

Mai Tai 3000

• 1 Lime Chip
• 1 Rum Square
• 1 Dollop Orgeat Foam
• 1 Pinch Fine Orange Zest

Lime Chip

• Freeze One Lime
• Slice Thinly In A Meat Slicer
• Soak In Simple Syrup
• Place In An Oven At 100˚ Until Sugar Has Carmelized
• Let Cool

Rum Square

• 3oz Water
• 2tsp Agar
• 3oz Appleton V/X Rum
• 1oz Lemonhart 151
• place water and agar in a pot for 15 minutes
  heat until all agar is dissolved
  add rums and stir well
  pour carefully into a shallow tray and refrigerate
  cut into squares when solidum

Orgeat Foam

• 4oz Orgeat
• 2oz Water
• 2 dashes Angostura Bitters
• 3 Egg whites
• Place all ingredients in an ISI charger and charge

 Check out Jamie’s post HERE and read about this cocktail in his own words.

The Blast Bar

So it is about time that I start doing some personal product reviews. I am currently looking for a portable bar for doing parties and events. The most difficult aspect of this is getting a bar that I can put in a Mazda 3. There are a few options out there but they are very costly. The Flairco Portable bar is a standard for flair competitions and is extremely portable and unbelievably sturdy. Unfortunately it cost around $1,600. So Searching through the web I ran across The Blast Bar. For about $500 less you can get something that seems to be just as reliable and portable.

Blast Bars

Ideal for any indoor/outdoor event, The Blast Bars combine form with function to create an efficient profit Blast Bar making beverage service station. They fold down to just 5″ and feature: • Powdercoated Aluminum Frame • Weighs only 75 lbs. • Interchangeable plexiglas panels • Completely water & weatherproof • Neon lights come in 6 different colors • Heavy Duty Locking Casters • Bottom Support Shelving • 65 Can Soda/juice/energy drink top shelf • 2 removable lexan ice bins • 2 built in cutting boards on each side • 15 bottle speed rail • 16 Color LED lighting system with remote

 

Blast Bar, if you would like me to fully review your product, I have no problem with you sending me one.

THE BLAST BAR

 http://www.theblastbar.com/bars.htm

True Originals

There are rarely things that make me excited that I know how to flair. In all honesty I have a hard time watching people flair most of the time. Bacardi’s ad campaign featuring four different types of bartenders showing their original style just released a commercial with Nicholas St Jean. This literally makes me want to go get a Cuba Libre, well done.

The Outsider

 

Frank Sinatra

“I feel sorry for those who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they will feel all day.”  – Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra

Mark Twain Quote

Mark Twain

 

“Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough. “

– Mark Twain

 

 

Today, I know how you feel Mr. Twain.

LXTV On The Rocks Search For Americas Top Bartender

It’s that time again. For the ast 2 years Absolut has been sponsoring LXTV’s search for Americas top bartender. I attended the casting call the first year and I have to say that I had a great time. Its pretty much what you would expect for a casting call, expect to slightly be judged on your bartending ability, and looked at more closely for your on camera look. In the end, free food, free drinks, and some Absolut shwag. Make sure to go to the website and make sure you qualify and register before you get there.

 Absolut Best Bartender

 

LXTV ON THE ROCKS

Los Angeles Casting Call

Thursday, July 29, 2010

12pm – 5 pm

 

The O Hotel

819 S Flower Street

ohotelgroup.com

W.C. Fields

W.C. Fields

There are some influential people in cocktail culture that have contributed nothing more than the fact that they enjoy drinking. In all reality, could there be a better legacy? As I went looking through my DVD’s for something to watch I came across some W.C. Fields movies. Fields always carried a flask of pineapple juice (gin) wherever he want and was drunk for a majority of the filming of his movies. He also gave us some of the Best drinking and liquor quotes to date. So today, is the first post solely dedicated to quotes. It could not be a better than to begin with W.C. Fields himself.   

“I drink, therefore I am.” W.C. Fields

Tales Of The Cocktail 2010

Tales of the Cocktail

Another year goes by, and I miss another Tales of the Cocktail. For those of you who don’t know what it is, Tales is a combination of seminars, press releases, conferences, party’s, and events hosted by numerous liquor brands and companies that is attended and moderated by the best chefs, mixologists, authors, bloggers, and celebrities in the cocktail industry to date. I pan to keep up with most of the goings on through blogs by people who are actually there. I suggest you take a look at it. Hopefully next year I will be personally blogging about it rather than directing you to a blog about it.

Tales Blog