The Inaugural San Antonio Cocktail Conference: A toast to the future of Texas ...

A standout was the At Dusk, made with rum, Campari, orange juice and bitters. The evening began at the  El Tropicano Hotel  and proceeded to the Soho Wine & Martini Bar, where the resident mixologists created drinks that featured  Cinco Vodka ,  Treaty Oak Rum ,  Dulce Vida Organic Tequila  and Waterloo Gin. The river cruise, equipped with bartenders serving Tiki-style drinks, transported attendees back and forth between the participating venues like Ocho, who hosted a Classic Cuba cocktail party where we sampled traditionally-made, Caribbean... s fun in the Mokara Spa, whose amenities are made available to hotel guests. The open-air lounge, sultry music and company made for an enchanting evening.

Bringing Gran Classico Bitter Back - New Finds - - CHOW

The liqueur was Gran Classico Bitter and Peter Schaf was on the street to drum up excitement among cocktail enthusiasts. Just a few years ago, John Troia, the director of Tempus Fugit , a Petaluma, California-based company that imports and represents high-end liqueurs and absinthes, took one sip of the Gran Classico and knew it was destined for more. In the mid-1800s, in Turin, Italy, people were drinking what was then known as “Italian Bitters of Turin. It was almost a year ago, on a sticky July evening at the corner of Bienville and Bourbon Streets outside the Old Absinthe House in New Orleans. He partnered with the Swiss company to produce Gran Classico. ” A version of that original recipe was adapted for the red, bitter aperitif Campari. It felt illicit and tasted delicious—tawny colored, sweet on the tongue, slightly bitter on the finish. Before this gets too mysterious and witch-doctor-y, I’ll clarify that it was during the Tales of the Cocktail conference, and a man passing...

The Inaugural San Antonio Cocktail Conference: A toast to the future of Texas ...

1. “Not to sound like a smartarse, but bitterness,” says Sother Teague, the man behind the bar, and one of the three people behind Bittersmen Bitters. “There's a bittering agent.” We'll get to those in a second. The other bitters, tinctures,
2. A standout was the At Dusk, made with rum, Campari, orange juice and bitters. The river cruise, equipped with bartenders serving Tiki-style drinks, transported attendees back and forth between the participating venues like Ocho, who hosted a Classic
3. Immediately he started thinking about making it himself at the family's craft brewery, Better Bitters Brewing Co., in Burlington, Ont. Romano searched the Internet for recipes and fiddled around with a few, but the batches he made were terrible.