Barfly Podcast Season Five Episode 4

guest: Colleen Bidwill, Asst Lifestyles Editor/Calendar Editor Marin IJ Listen here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/169913/13332335

Sage advice from someone quite cosmopolitan

Mint, sugar, ice and lime juice all went into the shaker cups. Mash, mash, mash with the muddler. Rum next, then more ice. Shake, shake, shake.…

Anchor Brewing might be gone, but the tradition of Anchor Distilling lives on

“I feel very sad, because I’m actually an old beer guy,” says Dan Leese, president and chief executive officer of San Francisco’s Hotaling & Co. “I…

Come in, we’ll give you shelter from the storm

Grief can be like a thief in the night. One minute you’re sitting at a bar drinking bubbly wine, and the next minute your crying your…

Sometimes asking for Penicillin won’t help

It was busy. The kind of busy that reminds one of John Carpenter’s 1982 movie, “The Thing” — an amorphous blob of hands, arms and faces,…

Several “fixes” for some classic cocktails

“That’s not how you make an Old Fashioned,” every bartender everywhere will hear someday. It’s as inevitable as the gin martini drinker telling the bartender making…

Here’s to independence, no matter what you are independent from

We hold these truths to be self-evident. It certainly didn’t feel like eventide. A quick look around the bar and people were still wearing sunglasses. The…

Sometimes, breaking up isn’t that hard to do

I guess it really was my fault. I had asked the question. “It’s been a good run, but I think it’s finally over,” said the man…

Barfly Podcast Season Five Episode Three

guest: Larry Mindel Listen here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/169913/13205412

Barfly Podcast/Season Five/Episode Two

guest: Daedalus Howell Listen here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/169913/13155307