Liquid Fridays at the Buffalo Club

Longtime Santa Monica restaurant The Buffalo Club recently launched Liquid Fridays, a weekly happy hour with a rotating menu of specially-priced cocktails made with a featured spirit. Actually it’s happy hours, since Liquid Fridays runs 6-7pm and 10pm to midnight. The night I stopped by with Caroline on Crack and SocialDomain Co-Founder John Colletti, the…

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The Spirit of the Season: Beefeater Summer Edition Gin

Desmond Payne has done it again. Following on the success of Beefeater 24, Payne’s modern take on the iconic Beefeater London Dry Gin, the Master Distiller has unveiled a limited-release, seasonal gin: the Beefeater Summer Edition. I first encountered the Summer Edition this past spring at the Gin Symposium, when Payne and Plymouth Gin Master…

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July 4th: A Spirited Celebration of the Red, White and Blue

The Fourth of July has arrived, and that means fireworks, barbecues, picnics, and plenty of drinks to toast our nation’s 234th birthday. Everyone has their own favorites and traditions when they’re celebrating Independence Day, but following are a few cocktail suggestions that are sure to liven up any gathering. And where better to begin than…

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Beefeater 24 and the Pegu Club

A few years ago, Master Distiller Desmond Payne was given a task that must have seemed at once exhilarating and daunting: take the legendary Beefeater London Dry Gin and create a new, super premium gin for the modern global cocktail culture. Payne had to keep Beefeater’s original nine botanicals, the botanicals had to steep for…

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It’s Tax Day, Enjoy Your Income Tax

“The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don’t know when it’s through if you are a crook or a martyr.” ~Will Rogers Ah, Tax Day. Thanks to Benjamin Franklin it will forever be linked with…

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