Archive for the ‘We Love Drinks’ Category
Friday Happy Hour: Raki
‘Efe Raki’
courtesy of ‘Jenn Larsen’
Welcome to the Friday Happy Hour, your single drink primer for the weekend.
Ah, the aniseed! Like cilantro, it has a taste you either love or hate. Absinthe, sambuca, pastis, raki are all anise-flavored spirits that inspire devotion or downright hatred. Me? I love licorice. So you know what side I fall [...]
Wrapping Up the Rickey
The Third Annual Rickey Month Celebration was Monday night, and I’m only now getting around to recap it after being honored to participate in the final judging. That should give you a better idea of what kind of wild fun party it was than anything I could possibly write, but…
The five final contestants presented a [...]
We Love Drinks: Beer that Loves DC – Part 1
‘Jeff Hancock and Brandon Skall’
courtesy of ‘Samer Farha’
“We’re quitting our jobs, next week,” Brandon Skall tells me. I look over at his business partner, Jeff, who smiles wryly. “From here on out, it’s all DC Brau.” Maybe it’s a crazy thing to do. Starting a business in the best of times is [...]
Beer and Food Pairing at Little Miss Whiskey’s
‘Hopeful Light’
courtesy of ‘Samer Farha’
As a beer lover there’s something so interesting that pairings do to the way you experience beer. You still think about the malt characteristics and the quality of the yeast as you drink, but you get the added element of how your beer is cutting or complimenting your food. You experience [...]
We Love Drinks: Rickey Month
Close your eyes and imagine life in our fair city over one hundred years ago. Imagine it was a week like we’ve had, a scorching heat wave, in your restrictive starched collar or corset – and there is no relief in sight, no air conditioned buildings to dart in. Sweat is dripping down the back [...]
More »Friday Happy Hour: Moonshine Iced Tea
‘Easy Day’
courtesy of ‘Samer Farha’
Welcome to the Friday Happy Hour, your single drink primer for the weekend.
For this holiday weekend which proudly celebrates our American independence, it might be treasonous to suggest you head over to British gastro-pub AGAINN for your happy hour, but there are two words guaranteed to make me do a happy [...]
We Love Drinks: Dive Bars
‘9946-27Crop’
courtesy of ‘furcafe’
With the amazing renaissance of our drinks culture in DC – the craft cocktail movement, the wine bar explosion, and the expanding beer consciousness all facing off against the slick corporate engines looking to make big bucks off bottle service and velvet ropes – it’s easy to overlook the plain ol’ dingy dive [...]
We Love Drinks: The Birth of a Brewery
‘Port City Pale Ale’
courtesy of ‘rabid_c’
I obviously think the world of DC, but there’s one thing I’ve always thought the metro area lacked: a brewery. There are a myriad of beer nerd restaurants, places like ChurchKey, Brasserie Beck and Birreria Paradiso, that quench the appetites of a pretty decent sized population [...]
We Love Drinks: Columbia Room
Imagine a little room removed from the crazy world outside – an oasis of peace entered through a busy bar. Jars of spices line the walls, while chunks of the most pristine ice you’ve ever seen are gently melting in a wooden hangiri bowl, waiting to be carved up. Bottles stand neatly at the ready, watched [...]
More »We Love Drinks: Memorial Day BBQ
‘Beer and burger’
courtesy of ‘Magnus D’
I hope that you’ll grill this weekend. To me, that’s what Memorial Day is all about. I don’t dream of stepping on any family tradition or intruding in any masculine domain by suggesting what you should grill and how you should grill it. That’s counter productive, in my [...]
Friday Happy Hour: Cool Hand Cuke
‘Cucumber Cocktail’
courtesy of ‘Samer Farha’
Welcome to the Friday Happy Hour, your single drink primer for the weekend.
Last month Samer and I were treated to a sneak peek of the incredibly refreshing cocktail Owen Thomson would mix up to inaugurate the “Farm to Glass” program in his new role at Cafe Atlantico. Beginning tonight, you can try [...]
Drinks Special: French Wine Tasting
‘Bistro Lepic 01′
courtesy of ‘maxedaperture’
Last Saturday afternoon, a small group of us were lucky to attend a wine tasting at Bistrot Lepic, courtesy of managing partner Cyrille Brenac. Tucked into a cosy sun-drenched room at the back of the upstairs wine bar, far from the chaos of the crowds on Embassy Row, fellow WLDC author [...]
Drinks Smackdown! Beer vs. Wine 2
‘Glorious Cheese’
courtesy of ‘Jenn Larsen’
When last we met for an epic drinks smackdown back in March, fellow WLDC author Kirk and I had our preconceived notions of which paired better with food – wine or beer – challenged and in some cases totally overthrown. I left with a heightened appreciation for beer and a fascination [...]
Give me that Prohibition Beer
‘Interior of saloon, Everett’
courtesy of ‘UW Digital Collections’
This is a shameful moment for me. Coors, the brewer that brought us the swill that’s “as cold as the Rockies” has developed a beer that I’m a touch excited about. Maybe excited is too strong a word. I’m intrigued. Batch 19, a new lager from Coors, is [...]
Fat Tire Comes to DC
‘”Fat Tire” – San Francisco’
courtesy of ‘adamjackson1984′
I’ve heard rumors that New Belgium was going to start shipping their famous Fat Tire beer out East, and it seems those rumors are true. The GOG reports that the Black Squirrel in Adams Morgan snagged some bottles of the famous ale, along with a few other varieties from [...]
We Love Drinks: Owen Thomson
‘Owen’
courtesy of ‘Samer Farha’
We Love Drinks continues our series where we look behind the bar, profiling the many people – from mixologists to bartenders, sommeliers to publicans – who make your drinks experience happen.
Owen Thomson has an interesting tattoo on his arm. His sister points it out to me as we sit at Cafe Atlantico’s [...]
We Love Drinks: Dickson Wine Bar
‘Dickson Wine Bar’
courtesy of ‘Jenn Larsen’
Dickson Wine Bar has been open for a few weeks now, occupying a three story brick building opposite Nellie’s. It’s got a rather nondescript industrial look outside, save for the old stone plaque “Dickson BLDG 903 You” from which the bar took its name. I walked by one night in [...]
We Love Drinks: Joe Riley
‘Joe Riley, Ace Beverage’
courtesy of ‘Jenn Larsen’
We Love Drinks continues our series where we look behind the bar, profiling the many people – from mixologists to bartenders, sommeliers to publicans – who make your drinks experience happen.
So far in our profile series we’ve focused on the people bringing your drinks to you – from bartenders [...]
Friday Happy Hour: Peep of View
‘Peep of View’
courtesy of ‘rabid_c’
Welcome to the Friday Happy Hour, your single drink primer for the weekend.
There aren’t a ton of holiday specific drinks out there, and pretty much the only ones that do exist are Christmas drinks. POV at the W Hotel has stepped in to remedy this with their new Easter themed cocktail, [...]
We Love Drinks: Thor Cheston
‘Thor, Over Processed’
courtesy of ‘Samer Farha’
We Love Drinks continues our series where we look behind the bar, profiling the many people – from mixologists to bartenders, sommeliers to publicans – who make your drinks experience happen.
When I sat down with Thor Cheston, the beer director at Brasserie Beck, our conversation centered on the future. Not [...]
