Hallelujah, bothers and sisters: Our favorite drink ingredient, pimento liqueur, is now available domestically under the St. Elizabeth label. Pimento liqueur is not made from that mysterious red substance stuffed into olives, but from the pimento berry, otherwise known as allspice — a case of mistaken identity that importer Haus Alpenz has solved by calling [...]
Our quest to create the most decadent drink in the world, one using all four horsemen of the health apocalypse — alcohol, cholesterol, sugar, and salt — took a great leap forward recently, when Randy Wong of the band Waitiki hipped us to Liko Lehua Fruit Flavored Butters. Unlike other so-called fruit butters, the six [...]
The Walt Disney Company has atoned for its recent slate of movies by hiring Kevin Kidney and Jody Daily to design a drink bowl commemorating the 45th anniversary of Disneyland’s Enchanted Tiki Room. Now that we’ve seen it, we can’t imagine serving a Scorpion Bowl in any other vessel. You may recall that Kevin also [...]
The Bum is bummed. His longtime companion, a vintage Ice-O-Mat ice-crusher, is unwell. The hand-crank is bleeding a viscous, decades-old black lubricant, and there’s no way to open the metal housing and treat the wound. Two years before our manual Ice-O-Mat swept us off our feet at a Burbank swap meet, we were in a [...]
It’s come to our attention that Starbucks has discontinued its cinnamon syrup and replaced it with something they call “Cinnamon Dolce” syrup. This will be a matter of abysmal indifference to you unless A) you are a fan of overpriced sweetened lattes, or B) you actually listened to us when we wrote in Sippin’ Safari [...]