The Imbibery and Distillery

I’ve said if before (VOE Imbibery, Spring 2013) and I’ll say it again: this green tea flavored vodka produced by Charbay is one of the most perfect of refreshing spring cocktail ingredients

If you’ve been to San Francisco no doubt you indulged in the world famous Irish Coffee at the Buena Vista bar and restaurant located at the corner of Hyde and Beach Streets, Fisherman’s Wharf.

Very few things seem to evoke the Irish quite as well as the lyrically named shillelagh (shi-LAY-lee). The word darn near begs to be sung out in an Irish tenor. Tis fairly certain that the Irish didn’t skip to a shillelagh

Sure and when Irish eyes are smiling, tis like a morn in spring—or a late afternoon pre-dinner cocktail that’s bold and sweet all at the same time

Just when you thought it was safe to go into a bar some cockamamie bartender in Brooklyn had to come up with the Pickleback. Without any overstretching of the imagination this new aptly-named hot trend in bars across the nation and Europe

Get your sweet freak on for Valentine’s Day. Chocolate? Raspberry? Vodka? Cha ching! What better to warm the uh, well, yes, the cockles of a sweetheart than sexy raspberry