Top 10 Cocktail blogs (+bonus 3)
I’ve been following more than my fair share of cocktail blogs over the years and there are always a handful of blogs that I find myself constantly reading every single post. Here are a collection of cocktail blogs that I find most interesting and entertaining to follow (in no particular order):
Drink Dogma is the blog maintained by the busy owners of Houston bar, Anvil Bar & Refuge.
Alcademics.com is journalist Camper English’s blog about cocktails, spirits, bars, and bartenders, as well as the place to find links to Camper’s published work on other sites.
3. http://caskstrength.wordpress.com/
Blog of Andrew Bohrer who writes, the purpose of this blog is a writing project that will be a reference for new bartenders. Well honestly, new bartenders that want to learn classic style. You can learn trash drinks anywhere, or trash technique. You can also read a ton of blogs where some nerd basically just re-prints shit from old cocktail books. What I focus on is how things were done best and finding the best way to do them now; without comprising quality or speed.
4. http://www.jeffreymorgenthaler.com/
Blog of Jeffrey Morgenthaler, Bar manager at Clyde Common in Portland, Oregon. Do you really need any more reasons to follow this blog?
5. http://www.kaiserpenguin.com/
Kaiser Penguin is a cocktail blog featuring original recipes, homemade ingredients, classic cocktails, and tiki drinks.
News and tips on all things alcoholic, including beer and wine, breathalyzers, cocktails and spirits; plus drink recipes, booze reviews and more. All the news that’s fit to drink.
7. http://imbibemagazine.blogspot.com/
Imbibe Magazine’s between-issues look at liquid culture with drink recipes, news and more. From coffee to cocktails, Imbibe celebrates your world in a glass.
One of Imbibe magazine’s “25 Most Influential Cocktail Personalities of the Past Century” and one of The Daily Meal’s “60 Coolest People in Food & Drink,” Jeff “Beachbum” Berry is the author of five books on vintage Tiki drinks and cuisine, which Los Angeles magazine has called “the keys to the tropical kingdom.”
A blog detailing cocktails, spirits, liqueurs, mixers, barware, bars, lounges, and of course, bitters. Maintained by Michael Dietsch, a writer, editor, and accidental bartender in Providence, Rhode Island. Dietsch has written about spirits and cocktails at A Dash of Bitters since February 2006; he’s the former cocktail columnist for Edible Rhody magazine; and he contributes to Serious Eats.
10. http://drbamboo.blogspot.com/
Dr. Bamboo writes and illustrates the cocktail column ”Last Call” for Bachelor Pad Magazine as well as a monthly feature for online drinks resource BarNoneDrinks.com.
11. http://www.amountainofcrushedice.com/
Tiare Olsen hails from Stockholm, Sweden and is a passionate cocktails and spirits geek with a special love for tropical and tiki drinks.You’ll usually find her either mixing up a range of drinks, crushing ice, making garnishes, syrups, infusions and bitters, or photographing all her experiments, which find their way onto her blog ”A Mountain of Crushed Ice.” She is especially interested in cocktail garnishing and ice, and is a collector of demerara rums. After working many years in restaurants she is now a mobile phones marketer and consultant, while still occasionally bartending, writing her blog and hanging out in the Mixoloseum bar chat room.Her favorite cocktail is a proper Mai Tai.
12. http://www.artofdrink.com/
Darcy O’Neil is a bartender with a formal education in chemistry. His motive for becoming a bartender was part by chance and partially to fulfill his culinary desires. Darcy feels that in life, food and drink are too important to take short cuts, so he quickly became an advocate for making great cocktails. Darcy currently works as a bartender and spends his time writing about his mixology and bartending experiences on his website, The Art of Drink.
Matt Robold is an Orange County, California-based rum connoisseur and cocktail enthusiast that likes to write about his passions on his blogRumDood.com. Matt can be found behind the bar at 320 Main in Seal Beach, or heading the monthly meetings of Rum Society atCaña Rum Bar in Downtown Los Angeles or the Bartender’s Cabinet in Orange County, California.
