Late last year we found ourselves in Berlin’s Stagger Lee bar with our pal Don Sling. We’d wormed our way in at closing time to sample the bar’s vaunted Stagger Lee Julep, but bartender Konstantin “CoCo” Prochorowski (pictured above) would have none of it. At that late hour, he wasn’t about to serve us one [...]
London bartender Rikki Brodrick spent the better part of last October’s Rumfest UK assembling a cement mixer. The plan was to wheel it onstage to mix the world’s largest Pina Colada, but before that could happen, Rikki had to decode the inscrutable instructions and screw the machine together. When he finally finished, with seconds to [...]
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Our previous Nashville post expressed surprise at how many Music City bars make cocktails that sing. On hearing that a new bar there called Holland House serves particularly harmonious Tiki drinks, we hopped a freight back to Nashville to check the place out. But first we had to catch up with our favorite Nashville bartender, [...]
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The Beachbum is a firm believer in recycling. Especially his own material. But on his second visit to Washington D.C. in under a year, there were so many new bars to visit that he found it completely unnecessary to steal from his previous post on Capitol cocktails. Tom Brown’s congenial new watering hole, The Passenger, [...]
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After tasting Trader Vic’s latest concoction at his Oakland bar in 1944, a visitor from Tahiti proclaimed the drink “mai tai roa áe.” In the parlance of our times, this roughly translates to “awesome.” Vic named his drink the Mai Tai, which went on to enjoy fame less as a cocktail than as a symbol [...]
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