Bartending
Cocktails through the ages
It slightly worries me that I can talk from experience about cocktails in three decades and yet I am only 31. A personal history of the cocktail — from Prohibition to Mixology.
Writing
Dispatches on spirits, cocktails, and the art of drinking well. Opinions held firmly, revised reluctantly.
History
Prohibition: The Great Noble Experiment
For many people the Speakeasy sums up Prohibition — luxury, excess, refinement. Yet the reality is somewhat different. A look at the paradigm shift that shaped drinking culture as we know it.
Bartending
The Code
My earliest training sessions (over 25 years ago) were about the Skills of the Bartender which led me to develop a Code for the Modern Professional Bartender as I called it then...
Bartending
The 21st Century Bartender
Current wisdom says that the 21st century is the Second Golden Age of Bartending. On the face of it there is a very strong argument — but is it the whole story?
Bartending
The Bartender's Bookshelf
Ask any bartender worth his salt and they will have a favourite bar book. A personal guide to the seven volumes every Modern Professional Bartender should read, mark, learn and inwardly digest.