Sheeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. 😥

One particularly irritating modern phenomenon is humans attempting to walk the sidewalks whilst engrossed in their phones. However, once in a while, I get to watch one of them step on a pile of dog shit, and this moment is so joyful it almost makes all the dog shit on the sidewalks worthwhile.

I’ve been inarticulately predicting this for months. We are getting played.

As I ponder the closure of ALF bakery (lasted ~2 years) I am increasingly bitter about how fleeting excellence is in Manhattan. We tend to burn out the good ones fast, and are left with a lot of overpriced mediocrity. The situation is marginally better in the outer boroughs.

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Visited Cure in New Orleans on Saturday evening. Drinks were good but was mainly struck how much more fabulous it would be if they weren’t blaring music.

New recipe for December now live for Total Tiki Online and Total Tiki app customers!

The $100,000 Candy Bar was introduced in 1964. Since then, it has depreciated 945%, and should arguably now be called the $10,000 Candy Bar.

Joe Santini’s grave, New Orleans Cemetery No. 3

As good as it gets.

Admiral Russell’s Punch

If you’re interested in rum, I highly recommend Matt’s and Alexandre’s new book “The Rum Never Sets”. It’s detailed, but not too detailed, richly illustrated, and fascinating.

This Wednesday I'll be in LA, talking cocktail history & comics with the wonderful @bitbyafox.bsky.social at Now Serving books. 7:00. Hope to see yinz there! And, of course, I'll be at Vinnie's Wine Shop, Seattle tonight at 6:30, now with the Aquavitosaurus, @andrewbohrer.bsky.social

New recipes for November now live for Total Tiki Online and Total Tiki app customers! This month, we’re sort of celebrating the Bali Hai in San Diego!

The grave of Pedro Chicote, Spain’s most famous bartender

Does The Economist lead their readers to think they know more than they actually do, or do such people merely gravitate towards The Economist?

Taberna Angel Sierra

Three Adonises and one Grasshopper at Del Diego, Madrid

When it comes to late tomato season, I tend to go down swinging.

New timeline feature by Beachbum Berry on Planter’s Punch for all Total Tiki Online and Total Mixology subscribers!

I think I can probably get by without ever experiencing a peanut butter & jelly sandwich-flavored/themed cocktail.

From the 1927 “El Arte de Hacer un Cocktail”, published in Cuba.

New recipe for October for Total Tiki and Total Tiki Online customers is live!

Today, I stripped Google Analytics out of my last client web site and it’s a great feeling.

Pretty good music.

Pro tip: these books will make great gifts, so buy a stack and hand them out like candy.

I can actually see out the windows of this NJTransit train. Exciting!

I don’t need a pepper cannon. I need a parmesan cheese cannon.

A flip-through of @davidwondrich.bsky.social new book, out Sept 23. Love the size and format. Link to Amzn if that how you roll: amzn.to/46e6fqX

New recipe for September now available for Total Tiki Online and Total Tiki (app) customers!

Only 6 days until The Martini Expo. Get your tickets! Www.martiniexpo.com

Fourteen years later, there’s finally an iPad app for Instagram. But rather than want to install it, I find I’m more inclined to delete my Instagram account (for the second time).

Y’know, it really should be illegal to charge vendors a fee for processing a credit card charge. Totally regressive.

One of the various bar life illustrations from Petits & Grands Verres, 1927

While on a frustrating (but ultimately resolved) search for info on Hatchett's Hotel and New White Horse Cellar in London, I came across this remarkable photo cache from the 1960s incarnation as a nightclub. imgur.com/a/hatchetts-...

A first look at my forthcoming Comic Book History of the Cocktail from the incomparable @alcademics.bsky.social. Thanks, Camper! www.alcoholprofessor.com/blog-posts/d...

If you’re interested in rum, exotic drinks, or naval history, “The Rum Never Sets” is a book you’re going to want: it demystifies London Dock Rum and Navy Rum with original archival research. Detailed, but not TOO detailed. You will enjoy reading it, then keep the book on your shelf for reference.

“Jamaica rum” once said it all in drink recipes. But today, with every producer making a variety of different rums, it’s time to break down the common substyles seen in practice. See link to the Rum Wonk article with more details below - or use the QR code! www.rumwonk.com/p/jamaica-ru...

The thing is, it’s a more important piece of white American history.

New recipe for August is live for Total Tiki and Total Tiki Online customers!

RIP superlungs.

Installed the public beta of iPadOS 26 (to see if my apps still work—they do). So, about this “Liquid Glass” makeover: I get Apple wants to change things up a bit, but what they’ve got looks really *dated* to me.

Due to a concentrated spam attack, I’ve temporarily suspended public account creation on spiritsandcocktails.community. Until the situation clears, if you want an account, shoot me a message or email and I’ll get you an invite code.

My $36 Martini at the Waldorf.

The American Distilling Institute asked me to write about the West Indies Rum Distillery in Barbados for their Distiller Magazine. An overview of the distillery's history, with a particular emphasis on what's new in 2017. distilling.com/distillermag...

Seems to me that when someone refers to “my truth”, they are confessing to an inaccurate interpretation of a self-servingly selective set of facts. A lot of people seem to be doing so these days.

Land Ho! We’re excited to share the arrival of our new book, The Rum Never Sets: 300 Years of Royal Navy & London Dock Rum, by me and Alexandre Gabriel. An epic quest to uncover the untold truths behind three centuries of Royal Navy and London Dock rum. www.wonkpress.com/products/the...