• 10 Reasons to Drink at a Bar on Tuesday Nights

    Tuesday Night Cocktail

    Here’s a well kept secret that most bars and bartenders know: if you want to have an amazing experience at a bar, go on a tuesday night.  Some of the best drinks, best conversations about spirits and best discoveries have happened over a bar on a Tuesday night. The unfortunate truth is on Thursday, Friday and Saturday you might get some face time with a bartender, but while they are talking to you they’re running all the drink tickets they’ve got queued up in their head, scanning the bar for who needs to be taken care of, and finding an exit line so they can get back to the business of mixing drinks.  Sunday and monday are often nights off for some of the best bartenders and when they hit the bar on Tuesday night they’re fresh and ready to...

     
  • Ramos Gin Fizz

    Ramous Gin Fizz from Spintz Alehouse

    I’ve spent a lot of time talking to various bartenders and mixologists and almost universally the drink they say will “send them into the weeds” on a busy night (aka get them irreparably backed up) is the Ramos Gin Fizz. Fortunately (or unfortunately in this case), I tend to drink at bars where I know the bartenders. The upside to this is that I’ve had some amazing drinks. The downside is that I’ve never been able to order a Ramous Gin Fizz for fear of pissing off someone I know and like. The other night I was at an event for the Oregon Bartender’s Guild (at the delightful Spints Alehouse) where they were tasting and mixing Organic Nation‘s vodka and gin. Mixologist, author and fellow blogger Jacob Grier decided to, just for the heck of it, make a few Ramos Gin Fizz’s (he...

     
 
 
 
 

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