Announcers Face Challenge Of Bringing The Missing Excitement To TV Viewers By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Sports Blogger I fell asleep during the 2020 Belmont Stakes. Dozed off on the couch just as the horses were entering the gate. I was prepared to watch it, even kind of excited about watching it. But with no crowd in attendance making noise in … [Read more...]
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Ron Barcelo Caribbean Rum Introduces ‘Good Bunny’ Easter Cocktail
Recipe That Includes Carrot Juice Will Get You Hopping To The Bar By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger The Easter bunny may bring chocolate and colored eggs to your house, but Ron Barcelo rum believes there is another bunny out there for the adults. And for them, it has created the El Conejo Bueno, a cocktail involving its anejo rum from the … [Read more...]
National Tequila Day Cocktails Recipes Other Than Margaritas
Drinks For Cheers To Celebrate Mexico's National Alcohol Here's some cocktails you can make for National Tequila Day (Friday, July 24) that are something other than your standard margarita. Although those are pretty good, too, especially a frozen one on these hot summer days. The below recipes have been provide to PubClub.com by Maestro Dobel tequila. Now drink up … [Read more...]
Lafayette LA Creates An Official City Cocktail
Sweet Crude Rouler Made With Local Louisiana Rum A lot of bars have signature drinks, concoctions they are specifically known for, and even a few cities have signature drinks like San Francisco and its Cable Car Cocktail and the Hurricane in New Orleans. Add Lafayette to the menu of the latter, as Lafayette Travel and Eat Lafayette have declared the the Sweet Crude RoulerTM … [Read more...]
Rums Of Puerto Rico Featured On History.com Webisode Series
#ItsRumTime Celebrates Historical Achievements With, Well, Rum Celebrating 450 years of making and drinking rum, the Rums of Puerto Rico have created a series of brief historical videos in partnership with History.com, the History Channel's website. The well-produced videos talk about major inventions – the camera, the incandescent light bulb, the various balls used in … [Read more...]
George Jones Moonshine Seeks Distribution Partner
Products Currently Sold Only In Late Singer's Nashville Country Music Museum George Jones White Lightening Moonshine, along with George Jones Vodka, are seeking a distribution partner to expend production. "With the tremendous success of the spirits line, the George Jones biographical film 'No Show Jones' slated for release in 2016, and the growing demand for the product … [Read more...]
A Whiskey Night At LA’s Tam O’Shanter Restaurant
Samples From 11 Distilleries Combined With Food Pairing Tam O’Shanter, one of the oldest restaurants in Los Angeles, is hosting a whiskey mixer and food pairing on Wednesday Oct. 29. A total of 11 award-winning distilleries are featured in the sampling: Few, Templeton, Charbay, Elijah Craig, Bernheim, Trybox, Rittenhouse, Mellow Corn, Evan Williams, Michter's and … [Read more...]
Malibu Rum Creates American Flag Shot For Election Day
Malibu American Flag Is A Red, White & Blue Salute To Voters Politics – and particularly politicians – often drive us to drink, and now Malibu Rum has created something just for that, and just in time for Election Day. It's a red, white and blue shot called the Malibu American Flag. Here's the recipe: .75 parts Blue Curacao .75 parts Malibu Coconut Rum .75 parts … [Read more...]
Bali Hai On Shelter Island Has San Diego’s Strongest Mai Tai
Scenic Restaurant Serves Up Strong Drinks That Impress This Rum Drink Veteran I wanted a margarita. Instead, I found a Mai Tai. And whoa, what a Mai Tai! I learned of Bali Hai on San Diego's Shelter Island from a couple of local gents having a smoke outside a dive bar. I was looking for a place on the water – and had margaritas on the mind – and they told me of Bali … [Read more...]
Kenny Chesney Drink Recipes For National Rum Day Aug. 16
Singer Who Lives In Virgin Islands Launches His Own Line Of Rums National Rum Day is Friday, Aug. 16. And Kenny Chesney – who walks around beaches in his music videos and lives in the Virgin Islands – has just launched a personal line of spirits called Blue Chair Bay Rum. The product (White, Coconut, Coconut Spiced) is not a celebrity endorsement. It's his own creation … [Read more...]
NYC Mexican Restaurants Using Devotion Vodka For Its Margaritas
Gluten-Free Food And Drinks Highlight Menu, But Is it San Francisco-Style Fare? I received a press release that left me thinking that the people involved are either really creative or those city folks in New York may not know a heck of a lot about Mexican food and margaritas. Without the benefit of being able to get "boots on the ground" and actually finding out … [Read more...]
Tiki Bar Drinks And Talking Tiki Bars With Frankie’s Tiki Room Owner
Taking A Liquid Vacation With P Moss And Toasting His Book I had a few moments with the master, and it was like sitting down with Tommy Lasorda talking baseball or discussing trop/rock music with Jimmy Buffett. The subject was tiki bars and the drinks in tiki bars, and I was in the company of P Moss – or just simply Moss – who owns Frankie's Tiki Room in Las Vegas. He's … [Read more...]
Breakfast Inspired Liqueurs Mama Walker’s A Big Hit At Party
Shots Flow Of Blueberry Pancake, Maple Bacon The Glazed Donut I was sent bottles of creative new liqueurs to sample, write about and review. The products are Mama Walker's breakfast-inspired liqueurs and they have creative titles like Blueberry Pancake, Maple Bacon and the lively-named Glazed Donut. They can be enjoyed as part of a mixed drink – recipes are on the bottle … [Read more...]
Old Tony’s Fire Chief Signature Drink Is The Perfect Party Starter Cocktail
Redondo Beach Pier Restaurant's Signature Cocktail In Its Crow's Nest Bar It's not the wildest bar in the Beach Cities, and certainly not one of the trendiest. But Old Tony's on the Redondo Beach Pier does have a couple of things that no other place can match, and that it a still-in-the-70s atmosphere and a drink called the Fire Chief. Old Tony's has actually … [Read more...]
Mai Tais At The Waikiki Royal Hawaiian Lacking Original Rum Punch
Scratch The Old School Drink; The New One Is Not As Good Or Strong Perhaps I was spoiled. Well, I was spoiled. And I freely admit it. But when you get used to something and then it changes – and not for the better – you get a little bit out of kilter. I am referring to a changes to the signature drink at the Mai Tai bar at the Royal Hawaiian. That's where I usually … [Read more...]
Venetian Las Vegas Featuring Rum, Tequila & Wine Events For Carnevale
Italian Summer Festival Comes To Vegas With Several Fun Cocktail Happenings Carnevale, the biggest of the numerous festivals that take place in the small villages and towns of Italy throughout the summer, is coming to the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. It's a three-month celebration running from May 27-Sept. 8. The highlights, at least for me, are events featuring rum, … [Read more...]
Miami Rum Renaissance 2013 Features Rums, Parties And Experts
Luau Larry Is The Biggest Rum Expert The Blogger Knows In The World I'm wondering why my good friend Luau Larry is not being featured at this event. It's the Miami Rum Renaissance Festival and it has a tasting competition and an "Ask The Rum Expert" element. Well, Luau Larry is the biggest rum expert I know, and while I'm sure those on the panel are standouts, it's … [Read more...]
My Favorite Margarita Party Drinking Experience
After A While There Was No Booze In The Blender, Just Tequila It's National Margarita Day as I write this, and just thinking about that great drink that makes us do wild and crazy things is bringing to mind all kinds of great memories involving it. Perhaps my favorite story involves a house party I ran into on sunny Southern California day. And stumbled (quite … [Read more...]
I’m Blaming Tiger Woods For Lindsey Vonn’s Injury
America Needs Her To Be Single For Next Year’s Winter Olympic Games Lindsey Vonn, America’s sweetheart on skis, tore up her knee and broke her leg in a massive accident in the FIS Alpine Ski Championships opener. There’s a chance she’s out of next winter’s Olympics, which start in exactly a year. (In a statement, Vonn says she is optimistic she will be back for the Sochi … [Read more...]
New Bärenjäger Honey Cocktail Puts The Sting In Holiday Celebrations
San Diego Wine & Food Chef Winner's New Drink May Get You Buzzed Just in time for the holidays, there's a new cocktail to sample. It's called the Bee Sting, and it was created by a chef (hey, the Bar Blogger knows from personal experience that chefs like cocktails as much as they do food!), Aron Schwartz of Marina Kitchen for a contest during this past November's San … [Read more...]
James Bond Martini Served To Guests of London’s Draycott Hotel
'Shaken, Not Stirred' Drink Celebrates Release Of New Bond Movie 'Skyfall' Do you have to be wearing a tuxedo and have a Bond girl – Barbara Bach in "The Spy Who Loved Me" or most certainly Ursula Andress in "Dr. No" would do quite nicely – to enjoy the new James Bond martini offered at London's Draycott Hotel? Well, no but it would certainly be a nice bonus. To … [Read more...]
Giving The Ole Smoky Moonshine The ‘Ol Taste Test
It's Down the Hatch With The Tennessee Hootch By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger One friend approached cautiously, as if it were a pretty girl he wanted to meet, while another dived right in as if it were a swimming pool on a hot August day in Knoxville. Me? I took a shot. We were tasting moonshine. Hootch. Good 'ol Mountain Dew. None of us … [Read more...]
This Rocky Top Moonshine Still Is Open to the Public
Ole Smoky Moonshine Opens Tasting Room in Gatlinburg in the Great Smoky Mountains Once two strangers climbed 'ol Rocky Top, Lookin' for a moonshine still. Strangers ain't come down from Rocky Top, Reckon they never will. That lyric from the unofficial theme song of East Tennessee and the University of Tennessee is meant to imply that a couple of unwelcome intruders … [Read more...]
Liquor Product Review: SX Infused Rum More Than Mojitos
Taking a Taste Test of A New Rum From Mexico Sorry, Luau Larry. The rum is gone. And you didn't get any of it. Oh, I offered. How can I acquire a bottle of your favorite beverage without inviting you over to enjoy it with me? Without getting your expert input, without your fantastic mixology skills to create the perfect pour. So I was left to my own skills which, when it … [Read more...]
Tequila Can Make The Clothes Fall Off But Can It Cure Being Sick?
This Flu Remedy Calls For Tequila Shots and a Jacuzzi. Hey, it Works! By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger My neighbor is feeling ill. Has had the flu a couple of days. Still, she's considering coming to Happy Hour with me. Perhaps these were the inspiring words: "You need tequila." Hey, it's my cure. Whenever I'm feeling ill, I take a shot. Or … [Read more...]