tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1689856 2012-02-15T13:47:00-08:00 Cocktails, spirits, bars, and bartenders: Alcademics is the study of booze with beverage journalist Camper English. TypePad Alcademicshttp://feedburner.google.com tag:typepad.com,2003:post-56719801 2012-02-15T13:47:00-08:00 2012-02-15T13:48:28-08:00 Camper English One day science says drinking will make you live forever. The next day science says it will kill you tomorrow. Good Booze, Bad Booze is an Alcademics category where I put all these stories together. 2/15/12: Vodka can boost problem solving and creativity, finds study [link] From the New Jersey Newsroom: "Scientists from the University of Chicago concluded in a recent study that men who are under the influence, but also not legally drunk, were faster and more creative in...<br/> <br/> [Visit Alcademics.com for the full post.]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alcademics/~4/DQ8be-4Ywcs" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.alcademics.com/2012/02/good-booze-bad-booze.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553b3da208834016301616de2970d 2012-02-14T14:30:00-08:00 2012-02-14T14:30:00-08:00 Camper English At Tales of the Cocktail Vancouver, I stopped in to the Hendrick's Gin tasting room. I've been to about 70 million Hendrick's events, but in this one I first learned how the gin is made. It turns out that Hendrick's is the product of two different stills. Botanicals are infused into the spirit during distillation in different ways depending on the still. The botanicals go into the column in the still on the left, whereas they are infused into the...<br/> <br/> [Visit Alcademics.com for the full post.]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alcademics/~4/I91wyVSAsvI" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.alcademics.com/2012/02/making-hendricks-gin.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553b3da2088340168e75ad87b970c 2012-02-14T13:12:01-08:00 2012-02-14T13:12:01-08:00 Camper English Dushan Zaric, and owner of New York's Employees Only and Macao Trading Co., gave a talk at Tales of the Cocktail Vancouver about spirits that were made for mixing in cocktails. Zaric compared bartending to being a musician, using spirits as instruments and doing a ‘repetitive creative practice’ while making drinks behind the bar each night. He used the analogy in many ways, also noting that recipes are like reading music and can be performed differently by bartenders without deviating...<br/> <br/> [Visit Alcademics.com for the full post.]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alcademics/~4/ksB7WqePSnY" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.alcademics.com/2012/02/born-to-mix-dushan-zarics-seminar-at-tales-vancouver.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553b3da208834016301613678970d 2012-02-14T09:16:41-08:00 2012-02-14T09:16:41-08:00 Camper English Hello from Vancouver! I'm up here for the two-day Tales of the Cocktail festival. In one of the tasting rooms yesterday, Eddie Russell, Associate Distiller and son of Master Distiller Jimmy Russel, was on hand to pass out samples and information. In Canada and in some parts of the US there is a Wild Turkey 80, while recently they launched Wild Tukey 81. One proof degree difference? I asked Eddie Russell about it. The Wild Tukey 80 is actually discontinued....<br/> <br/> [Visit Alcademics.com for the full post.]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Alcademics/~4/Ep9TwJikFeM" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.alcademics.com/2012/02/whats-the-difference-between-wild-turkey-80-and-wild-turkey-81.html