2010.
You guys remember last year (it was a long time ago, I know, but try) when we did the Thursday Drink Night featuring Kahlua Coffee Cream? Of course you remember, it was your favorite day of 2009, right after your birthday (but just before the birth of your child)! Well part of the whole deal was a live event streamed by real-life magic over the internet from Malo, where some of the crew was mixing up drinks all night long. Video has now surfaced from that live event and since it was, as you said, your 2nd favorite day of 2009, I thought I’d share it with you all. Happy (early) Birthday!
Oh that Rumdood, so dreamy! Remember, it’s a limited product, so who knows how much longer it’ll be on the shelves.
2009.
You guys should have seen this coming. And why not, it’s a great idea! Halloween + Thursday Drink Night + Crystal Head Vodka = DUH, of course. What else would we use for the Halloween season, the Tommy Gun vodka? No, that’s for Earth Day, don’t be stupid. You guys remember Crystal Head Vodka when I wrote about it about a year ago, right? Well we’ve all got bottles of it and are going to be mixing up some SCARY and spooktac-(GUNSHOT). Sorry for that. The crew will be gathering in the bar at 7pm Eastern, skulls in hand, ready for a good old fashioned mix-em’-up. Over on the West Coast folks will be assembling at Chantanee in Seattle for some webcammed live-from-the-bar action.
My pictures came out crappy, so I stole this from their website
As for the vodka, WELL…it’s a blend of grains first quadruple distilled and then triple crystal-filtered (crystals!). I’m surprised they had anything left over after all of that purifying. I tried it, and I can tell you one thing for sure: it is absolutely, without a doubt, no question…vodka. They did their jobs, and have ended up with a pretty great vodka. You should buy a skull-full! And you should definitely join us in the chat and mix up some drinky-drinks with us. I’m not going to be able to get in there until 10pm or later, but that doesn’t matter because 1) What am I, your mom? You don’t need me to hold your hand, grow up and go to the anonymous chat by yourself, AND 2) We usually go until laaaaaaaaaate late late into the night, so show up any time. It’s always a blast. See you there!
2009.
I can’t believe it’s been a year since a bunch of cocktail and spirits bloggers somehow managed to organize a night every week where we all get together and try to best-cocktail-recipe each other to the point of insulting each others mothers (which actually doesn’t take very long). So this Thursday (9/3/09) AKA tonight is a big night, with lots of heavyweights stopping by the chat and several prizes in several categories being given away. Here’s the important info:
- The theme for the night is Tiki Drinks
- You can get to the chat HERE at 7pm Eastern
- Visits from cocktail badasses Jeff “Beachbum” Berry and Martin Cate
- There will be jokes about Cocktailnerd’s mother!
Not to mention the PRIZES!*
- Best Original Tiki Drink – 50cm gold Japanese bar spoon
- Best Gin Cocktail – Bottle of Port of Barcelona gin signed by the distiller.
- Best Absinthe Cocktail – Bottle of Obsello absinthe signed by the distiller.
- Best Spiced Rum Cocktail – Bottle of Old New Orleans Cajun spiced rum
- Last One Standing – If you close the doors on our party, you will get yourself a pick of one of Mud Puddle’s six new cocktail book releases.
- First two newcomers who submit a drink – More books! Pick from Mud Puddle’s line-up.
- We’ll also be giving out Annual Awards throughout the night (e.g. Person who consistently submits the worst drinks).
That’s a lot of stuff! Not to mention that the chat has been completely overhauled and is pretty kickass. You should come. You should tell other people. You should follow all the hot cocktail action on twitter. I’ll be there. Your mom will be there. Let’s do this!
*I stole this info from Kaiser Penguin, so if it’s wrong, BLAME HIM.
2009.
If you guys missed our online event last Thursday, YOU MISSED IT BIG. Oval vodka sponsored our night out at Beleza and tons of great folks showed up in our online chat to help us mix some new and interesting cocktails. Seriously, cocktails made with arugula, cardamom, and a liqueur that tastes like pine trees. No joke.
Samantha and I cold nerdin’ it up with our laptops at the bar
You can check out the recap on the Mixoloseum site to see the top 5 drinks of the night. We were able to make most of these at Beleza (or get close enough), though some of the crazy submissions had our bartenders Adam and Navarro scrambling (and occasionally rolling their eyes), but they were great sports and very professional. The two drinks listed that I was able to try and really enjoyed were the Perfumed Beauty (a surprise hit) and Pi*a*b (which is the mathematical equation to calculate the surface area of an oval. An OVAL, GET IT!?! You get it. Lots Of Love). Check ‘em out.
Suspendered bartender Adam mixing the Oval into my favorite drink of the night, Perfumed Beauty
So thanks to everyone who came out to the chat and gave us tons of great cocktails to taste (and sometimes critique). Big thanks to Beleza for hosting us, and to Sam and Oval vodka for setting the whole thing up. We had a blast and are looking forward to the next time we can do something like this. If you missed this one, you’re a jerkface for standing me up and you’d better buy me something pretty to make up for it. I accept expensive electronics, and of course, booze. But it would behoove you not to miss the next one, buster.
*UPDATE* Rick from Kaiser Penguin has posted up some bee-u-tee-full pictures of drinks made that night on the Mixoloseum site. Seriously, HOT.
2009.
The day is finally here, you guys. Starting around 7pm Eastern we’ll be chatting and videocamming LIVE from Beleza while having some drinks mixed for us using Oval vodka. You can join us by heading to the chat here and the video should be broadcasting from here. I’m not entirely certain on the video, if it’s different, we’ll give you the new link in the chat. Technology!
We start at 7pm, but it doesn’t matter if you come late because people are usually concocting in the chat sometimes until 3am*. So please come join us in the chat, watch us in the bar, and of course DRINK WITH US as we try new and exciting things with sponsor Oval vodka.
*We will not be live from Beleza that long though, that would be a LOT of drinking.
2009.
This is a big one, gang. NEXT Thursday, May 28th at 7pm, I’ll be chatting and webcamming LIVE from Beleza in midtown Atlanta to make drinks with Oval vodka. My big beardy head will be there, along with Samantha Harrigan from Cocktail Culture, as well as some local press folks and even an appearance by The DrinkPlanner Guy Who Doesn’t Write. We’ll be working with Beleza’s head bartender Adam Fox mixing up all kinds of drinks, but of course, we need help from all of YOU good people to join us in the chat and give us ideas and suggestions. Otherwise I’ll have nothing to drink, and you don’t want that to happen, do you?
The featured spirit of the evening is Oval vodka, a relatively new vodka from Austria. Now, I know what you’re saying, “Oh great another vodka, PERFECT, as if there weren’t already 5000 other “unique” vodka-snowflakes to choose from. I’ll be sure to buy a bottle just as soon as I finish the other 4999 nearly identical vodkas”. To that I would have to say that TYPICALLY yes, you’d be correct, vodkas are, generally speaking not that different from each other. HOWEVER, Oval has gone the extra step and wrangled the powers of SCIENCE to make their vodka different through a process ominously referred to as “structuring”. It’s an eleven-day vodka re-education boot-camp where they use extremely high temperatures and pressure to alter the alcohol and water on a molecular level. Impressive, right? The end result is each alcohol molecule being surrounded by four water molecules, giving Oval a smoother taste AND a higher percentage of alcohol. Those are both qualities I desire in a vodka. Thanks Science!
So mark your calendars, tie a string around your finger, get it tattooed on your forehead*, REMEMBER that at 7pm Eastern on May 28th you and I have an online date in the Mixoloseum Bar, bring a bottle of Oval with you, and dress smart. I don’t like being stood up.
*Backwards of course, so you can read it in the mirror.
2009.
Tonight’s Thursday Drink Night is a big one. Beefeater 24 is the spirit to be reckoned with this time, and a whole slew of the cocktail community’s best and brightest will be on hand to mix it up. Besides the regular group of TDN miscreants and naer-do-wells, none other than David Wondrich, Greg Boehm, and brand rep and bartender Dan Warner will be on hand. They’ll be broadcasting live from the Quarter Bar in Brooklyn in the Mixoloseum video channel.
So come hang out, bring your best cocktail game, or just sit in and soak up all the cocktail nerdiness and off-color jokes about your mother. Best cocktail wins a copy of “Jones Complete Bar Guide” courtesy of Cocktail Kingdom. Best joke about Gabe’s mom wins…I don’t know, my respect and admiration?
Sadly, I’m not able to attend because at the time they go live (7pm) I’ll either be en route or just arriving at Hilton Head for an extended weekend getaway with the fam. I know, poor me. You kids have fun without me though!
2009.
Oh hot damn, the Mixoloseum is back at it again. And I’m pretty excited about this week’s sponsor: Beefeater Gin. The reason I’m so excited is that I know that Beefeater is available EVERYWHERE and that there’s no excuse for not joining us in this week’s cocktail chat. BEEFEATER IS HUGE and every single one of you has no excuse for not being there and to not attend this week’s Drink Night jubilee, so pick up a bottle and log in and make a fanastic cocktail and you might win some FABULOUS PRIZES (best drink wins a case of Fever Tree Tonic).
So, 7pm Eastern…BE THERE!
2009.
Hey gang. Thursday night! Woo-hoo, amirite!?! So, you have a decision to make. First, if you’re anyone who does not live anywhere near me, which is pretty much everyone:
Thursday Drink Night! This week the crew is taking on the Long Island Iced Tea, which no doubt was the entry point for many of us into the world of cocktail experimentation. The mixology mischief starts at 7pm Eastern…be there!
Your other option this evening is to hit up Winston’s in Marietta tonight for $.64 beers and a tater tot eating contest. No, I did not make that up. Sports talk AM radio station 790 The Zone and Miller are having an event there tonight where from 7-9pm MGD 64 (that new 64 calorie beer, you know the one) is only a scant $.64. I happened to stumble upon the event last Thursday by accident, and they’re repeating it again tonight. The tater tot eating contest starts at 8pm, and there’s a pretty uhm…serious looking contender by the name of “Scrotius Maximus” who they’re advertising will be competing. I am also not making that up.
They had giveaways and a raffle prize last week (6-month gym membership), and I imagine this week will be no different. So if you’re in the area, stop by and guzzle all the flavorless low-calorie beer you can for a super-low price. Suck on that, recession!
2009.
Before last week, I had no opinion whatsoever about Le Tourment Vert absinthe. None. But now…now I have a very negative opinion of their product, and I haven’t even tried it.
Let me explain.
Last week, the jackass PR firm that represents Le Tourment, Cashmere Agency, decided that they didn’t like that Mata Hari absinthe was getting positive press from my site (and numerous others) promoting the TDN chat we were hosting that was sponsored by Mata Hari. So rather than approach me and the other sites promoting the event and say “Hey, looks like you guys are doing a cool thing, could we maybe work with you and find a way for you to talk about LTV that’s interesting to both you and your readers?”, they decided to act like slimy underhanded CHEAP schmucks and comment spam every single post they could find about Mata Hari with DUMB pro-LTV comments. Seriously, read this amateur-hour bullshit:
1. krissy Said, The only absinthe i have tried is Le Tourment Vert! It was amazing as a mixed drink!
2. lexi Said, thats what my friend told me was the best in the states Le tourment vert. were did u find it ive been looking cant find any
3. Dopeboy Said, isn’t it out in the states mate?
4. tipsy Said, Yeah its definitely in the states. It was the official drink at the Sundance Festival in Park City, Utah. Aside from there, I don’t know where you can buy it…check out their site http://www.letourmentvert.com/
Then they tried to act like they didn’t do it. You know how I know you’re gay lying? Not just because that’s the most ridiculous conversation that would never ever happen, especially in the timespan of maybe 30 mins on a two-day-old post, but BECAUSE ALL THOSE COMMENTS CAME FROM ONLY TWO IP ADDRESSES. I don’t know if the poor grammar is intentional or not, but it would not surprise me to find out that “not” was the answer to that question. You have to be 12 kinds of retarded to think that something like this was 1) going to fool ANYone, and 2) that I wouldn’t notice and take action. THERE ARE NUMEROUS AND SPECIFIC TOOLS BUILT INTO BLOGS SO WE KNOW WHEN YOU’RE TRYING TO PULL SOME AMATEUR BULLSHIT LIKE THIS. How stupid can you be? Please don’t assume we’re as mouth-breathingly ignorant about our jobs as you are about yours.
These boners clearly have no effing clue. Look, running a site like this, I deal with a lot of people in PR, mostly in the form of emails about new this or that. But the internet isn’t new anymore, people. It’s 2008 2009 for crying out loud. Blogs are a multi-million dollar business now. You want coverage of your product? This ain’t the way to do it, Cashmere. I don’t care if Le Tourment Vert tastes like distilled baby giggles and purified angel sweat, when you come onto MY SITE and take a big honking dump on MY POSTS, you are going to get HANDLED. It’s simple.
Like I said, I’ve had contact with a lot of PR firms, and most are pretty great, and while they don’t all “get it” as far as blogs go, 9 out of 10 know enough to not get blog-raped like I’m doing to Cashmere right now. They send me an email about their product or an event, or even better actually SEND ME THEIR PRODUCT*, some marketing materials, some drink recipes, whathaveyou, and trust me to make my opinion and tell you good people all about it. All of these are good things. Even better: set up some kind of cool interactive promotional online thing that engages me AND my readers in an interesting way. I don’t know, like uhmmm….MATA HARI ABSINTHE did. Say whatever you want about their product (and that’s the thing, I don’t guarantee anyone positive coverage), their PR firm knows what they’re doing and how to connect with potential consumers in a meaningful way. Cashmere, on the other hand, only knows how to lamely piggy-back off of other firms who actually know what they’re doing. Oh, and INCUR MY WRATH.
“Cashmere: When You Absolutely Must Ruin Your Reputation”
Guys I was so pissed off, I went to my local liquor mega-store and put DrinkPlanner.com business cards on every single bottle of Le Tourment Vert there. I needed retribution for them treading all over my territory. Really though, if I’d planned better, I’d have brought some of the nifty marketing materials that competing absinthe distilleries like La Fee and Mata Hari were smart enough to send to me and slap them all over LTV’s stupid giant bottles of meh. Because they work with firms that get it, see? I’d rather give them the press and promotion because they aren’t underhanded scheming morons who can’t even be bothered to mask their IP when spamming me like an asshole who just got My First Internets for Christmas. It’s not hard to work with blogs to promote your product, and if you don’t know what to do with us, just ask. We’d rather answer that question than have some no-nothing jackass make a fool of themselves spam-commenting on our sites (though taking your stupid asses down like this IS a little fun).
The thing is, Cashmere, I’m already inside your head. I know how you schmucks work, and that you guys are going to try to spin this as not only a bunch of free press for your client, but for yourselves, and Oh Ho, you’re So Crafty, tricking The Blogs into Writing About Your Client. Problem is, people have brains…and dadgummit, they use them. They’ll realize that you actually aren’t so swift at marketing because we’ve all uncovered the fact that you’re not “savvy” or “innovative” but more like “behind the times” and “incompetent” and “web retarded”. Oh snap, did I link your site to those words? WHOOPS. I don’t have a PhD in Internets or anything, but you couldn’t even keep up with the most basic of website tools, which is a pretty piss-poor way to do your job. The fact that every Google search for “Le Tourment Vert” is going to come up with some very harsh wording near it is the exact opposite of what you want for your client. Oopsie, you got some incompetence on your shoes. Well…more like a metric ton of it, but whatever.
Le Tourment Vert, I’m not exactly pissed at you. But you’ve made a horrible choice in PR firms and at the moment, they are running your brand through the frigging DIRT. But it’s not irreversible. You can still do the right thing. If I were you, I’d dump these 3rd rate bush-league HUMPS before they do any more serious damage to your brand. You’re in a brand new and very competitive market in the US, and dealing with a bunch of jokers like Cashmere is REALLY going to sully your reputation.
*UPDATE* Looks like this isn’t the first time Cashmere has tried this strategy. Apparently they got caught by celebrity gossip blog Cele|bitchy for spam-commenting posts about some horrible shows they were promoting. CLASS ACT.
*Why anyone thinks I’d say anything about their product without it either curing (or causing) cancer or ACTUALLY LETTING ME TRY IT is beyond me. Buy a clue, guys.
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