After a bender trip in Mexico after high school I swore off drinking any and all tequila. In the late 80′s and early 90′s that probably wasn’t a bad thing to do (the big selling point of many tequilas was that they had a worm in the bottle). Flash forward many years and a friend of mine urged me to try a [...]

One of my goals with Drink Spirits is to cover the incredible micro distillery movement that is happening across the country. I’ve started that coverage here in my own back yard with Portland’s booming micro distillery industry (there’s now even a site devoted to Portland’s Distillery Row). Corresponding with many of these micro distilleries, I’ve heard some fantastic stories of [...]

Through my journey with spirits I’ve found that the better drinks I experience the pickier I get when I go out to drink.  Sometimes being picky simply isn’t an option. This past weekend we went to a charity auction and the bar litterally had four options:  Wine, Beer, Vodka and Rum (with no mixing ingredients other than juices) My first [...]

It’s sort if ironic that my spirits blog would start out with so many posts about Gin. I never really considered myself a gin drinker and would often defer to bourbon, tequila or mezcal based drinks. Perhaps that’s why I’ve been on sort of a quest to find a gin that I really like. So far I’ve had one pretty solid hit [...]