Alcademics
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Alcademics is the website from Camper English, [[cocktails and spirits writer, speaker, and educator. He is the pioneer of the "Directional Freezing" technique to make perfectly clear ice that is used around the world. Camper is a judge of the SF World Spirits Competition, a former World's 50 Best Bars polling coordinator, and the founder of CocktailSafe.org and CocktailGreen.org.
Alcademics
54m ago
I taught about 35 beverage directors and bartenders over three sessions how to carve ice diamonds and other shapes in Los Angeles at a villa that's a brand home for The Macallan scotch whisky. It was a great day! Here are a few photos I took ..read more
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54m ago
I taught 50 students how to cut ice diamonds over three different one-hour sessions this year at Portland Cocktail Week! Campari Academy generously sponsored the classes and provided all students with a copy of The Ice Book at the end. Here are just a few pictures ..read more
Alcademics
54m ago
This story that I wrote first appeared on AlcoholProfessor.com. A New Era for San Francisco’s Iconic Starlite In early 2024, Starlite, the top-floor lounge in the Beacon Grand Hotel in San Francisco’s Union Square, reopened after a renovation. In its heyday, the venue was the hottest club in town, but ..read more
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54m ago
I picked up this newish (2022) book The Book of Sherry Wines by Cesar Saldana from the SF public library. It's over 400 pages, mostly text, and I think I might need to buy myself a copy. It's not on Amazon but you can find it at various stores online ..read more
Alcademics
3d ago
I wrote my take on this subject for The AlcoholProfessor, where the story first appeared. Why is Distilled Alcohol Called Spirits? The word “spirit” has many definitions but most center around either the idea of the conscious self as opposed to the physical body; or an attitude, as in “the ..read more
Alcademics
3d ago
This story was originally published on AlcoholProfessor.com. From Salad in a Glass to Centrifuge: A Cocktail Evolution Recently I was thinking about the early years of the craft cocktail renaissance, and how many of the drinks were quite… chunky. And I realized that we can track a lot of the ..read more
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3d ago
Check out this great article about me and The Ice Book in Atlas Obscura ..read more
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3d ago
My news alert brought this to my attention: the winner of World Class Kenya cited some books she used to prepare for the competition and The Ice Book was one of them. I think that's pretty neat. Read the story here ..read more
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2w ago
On October 12th at 4PM I'll be chatting with Evan Rail, author of The Absinthe Forger at Book Passage in the San Francisco Ferry Building. I really enjoyed the book and its look at the history of absinthe as well as solving a modern mystery of an expert and online ..read more
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3w ago
The third Lemonade recipe in Jerry Thomas' How to Mix Drinks is identical to that in Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management, which came out the previous year. I learned this in Jeanette Hurt's new book The Whiskey Sour. She postulates that both authored cribbed the recipe from the same ..read more