Category Archives: General

The Cocktail Chronicles Sells Out!

Well, not really — I’m too much of a curmudgeonly contrarian to ever hew to a corporate line for very long — but if you somehow missed the big announcement over at Jeffrey Morgenthaler today, there’s a new Spirits and Cocktails Advertising Co-op out there, and The Cocktail Chronicles is proud to be onboard. Why?… Continue Reading

A little more link love

…And they keep coming! It appears that booze blogs are now breeding like rabbits — after posting info about the 15 newish (or old, but new to me) blogs a few weeks ago, I’ve come across / been reminded of /noticed a major change in another round of sites. Here are a few more worth… Continue Reading

Link Love

When I first started the Cocktail Chronicles a little over two years ago, I felt mighty lonely when blogging about booze. True, there were folks like Chuck Taggart at the Gumbo Pages, Brad at Bar Mix Master and C at Slakethirst to keep me company, but as far as spirits- and cocktail-oriented blogs went, it… Continue Reading

Two Down

In the tequila-clouded aftermath of the super turnout for this Mixology Monday — 25 people, more than 30 cocktail recipes (see the full details here) — I nearly forgot something else that was going on this week. It’s not of major significance to the larger quality cocktail community — and there’s plenty of mondo significance… Continue Reading

Bum Rap

As Michael pointed out this weekend, Imbibe magazine has now passed the one-year milestone. That’s a big deal, folks — around 60 percent of new magazines fail in their first year (and I’ve seen other figures that peg that closer to 90 percent), so Imbibe is really bucking the trend. Having been a contributor to… Continue Reading