I think this episode is a great example of what we mean when we say “…history through cocktails”. It would be easy to think that every cocktail origin story is precise and worthy of storytime. As it turns out, we’re pretty excited when we discover a cocktail that is directly and causally correlated to a […]
We’re kicking off the series with the cocktail that I think of as THE cocktail of cocktails…the Manhattan. At the front of the show, Mr. Jason Kruse, our researcher, and I sat and discussed what he discovered while tracking down the origins of the Manhattan. First of all, the Manhattan’s claim to fame as the […]
In this special episode of the podcast we interview Charles Brinkman, a Chicago-based beer blogger with a careful approach to the beer experience. Charles has been on previous episodes of the podcast including both Field Trips (http://blackliver.ning.com/profiles/blogs/field-trip-1-mercadito-pepino-el-pyu, http://blackliver.ning.com/profiles/blogs/field-trip-2-billy-sunday) and the Spiteful Brewing tasting (http://blackliver.ning.com/profiles/blogs/off-the-shelf-spiteful-brewing) and has been an active member of our community since we started. […]
In early August my family went on a road trip to the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee. By now you’ve heard what we’ve thought of some of the local beers we brought back with us from that part of the country, but we also found something special in a grocery store in the town we were […]
I’m finally getting the October beer tastings up. Brands we tasted are Solemn Oath, Pipeworks, Spiteful Brewing, Highland Brewery, Lazy Magnolia, Smoky Mountain Brewery and Avery. October is the month when all of the pumpkin and pumpkin spice brews come out. I’m not really a hater, but I do find it mildly annoying that every […]
And we are here at episode #50. Now we’ve done other episodes in between, fun little experiments and tastings, but the full fifty represents fifty classic cocktails we’ve learned about and enjoyed. This one is extra special because it’s one of those really old ones from the American colonial era: The Stone Fence. This drink […]
Not only do the lovely Ms. Kathleen and I try numerous exquisite beers from Avery, Une Anee, Smoky Mountain Brewery, Solemn Oath, Lost Abbey and, of course, Pipeworks but we also chat a little about our trip to the Smoky Mountains and all of the moonshine we did not have. If you like our tastings […]
So after a year and a half of trying classic cocktails and hearing the stories around how they came to be, we decided to tell the story as we’ve pieced it together (with some help from people who know what they’re talking about)
I do in fact know that it is now October. Hand-Eye Media HQ has been a working hard to make the donuts as well as planning some special things for the BLP. The lovely Mrs. Kathleen and I sampled more beers through August, including some regional beers from Appalachia, in particular, the Smoky Mountain Brewery. […]
We finally got up the steam to go on another Black Liver Project field trip. Over a year ago I found an article on unique cocktails in the Chicagoland area. I was immediately smitten. Crazy, exotic, strange ingredients used to enhance the cocktail experience…I was totally all for it. One such ingredient was ambergris in […]
