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SF Cocktail Week: A Celebration of Mixology Sept. 19-25, 2011

It might seem like every week is cocktail week in a city like San Francisco, which has amazingly creative mixology barsÂ in every part of the city. But a couple of the city’s most respected bartenders – Duggan McDonnell of Cantina and H. Joseph Ehrmann of Elixir – thought there should be a special time to showcase the best the region has to offer when it comes to drinking. A great cocktail starts with a mixologist’s creative idea, but it takes a bar owner committed to using the best seasonal ingredients and locally distilled spirits and creating a space that’s suited to enjoying hand-crafted cocktails. The San Francisco Cocktail Week celebration runs from Sept. 19-25 with a creative series of cocktail classes, dinners, parties and pub crawls. Highlights include: Opening Night Party: Around the World with Anchor Distillery’s spirits and brews on Sept. 19. Stag Dining Group international dinner…

September 12, 2011

Drink Em if Ya Got Em: Penicillin and Other Smoky Cocktails

“I don’t like smoky Scotch.” That was me, about 10 minutes after I found my way into the new San Diego speakeasy Noble Experiment and was escorted to my spot at the bar. For a moment, I was one of those annoying patrons who arrives at the bar thinking they know exactly what the do and don’t like. But even though I wasn’t a Scotch drinker, something drew me to the cocktail called Penicillin, a combination of ginger-honey syrup, lemon and both blended and single malt Scotch. Fortunately, Anthony had dealt with people of my ilk before. He promised that if I didn’t like the Penicillin – one of the cocktails star-tender Sam Ross of Milk & Honey in NYC created for Noble Experiment – he’d make me something else. It was like taking a refreshing and slightly sweet sip of autumn, on a cool day. It reminded me of…

March 19, 2010