The Great Experiment Prohibition Continues
This article originally appeared in National Geographic Assignment. There we were, a virtual mosaic sampling of the states that make up this great United States of…
Just Another Tequila Sunrise
This article originally appeared in National Geographic Assignment. French philosopher Rene Descartes once said, “When it is not in our power to follow what is true,…
How Distillation Became The Water Of Life
This article originally appeared in National Geographic Assignment. At Charbay one immediately gets a sense of place. And a sense of purpose. Perhaps it’s the giant…
Do You Know Where Your New Years Eve Cocktail Comes From?
This article originally appeared in National Geographic Assignment. After a long workweek a business colleague and I decided to salve away our ills with a few…
Bourbon
This article originally appeared in National Geographic Assignment. Whiskey historian Oscar Getz spent a lifetime assembling an impressive collection of whiskey memorabilia covering American whiskey from…
An Acquired Taste
This article originally appeared in National Geographic Assignment. I bellied up to the little downtown bar intent on proving the hard drinking journalist cliché true. My…
Good to know when to turn them around
“I’ll have a dirty martini,” a man said before abruptly turning back toward his friends. In his world there is probably only one kind of dirty…
A room with a view
Called in on a Tuesday morning. What a drag. One of the drawbacks of the restaurant business are the odd hours. Of course that is also…
Barfly profiled in newest issue of Capture magazine
The Barfly is profiled on page 42 of the newest issue of Capture magazine!