Archive for January 19th, 2008
posted by admin on Jan 19
Yep, you read that correctly, today is Hot Buttered Rum Day friends! Every year on January 17th the world celebrates this delicious and cozy cocktail that has brought joy to so many throughout the years. How fitting that Hot Buttered Rum Day falls in the middle of one of the coldest and most dismal months there is! Here at KegWorks we encourage you to celebrate this day in a big way – put the holiday credit card bills aside, put on a big comfy sweater, turn on the fire and make yourself some fabulous hot buttered rum!
posted by admin on Jan 19
Just as I was preparing for Mixology Monday came a reminder that I have another blog event I need to step up for: the third installment of Raiders of the Lost Cocktail.
posted by admin on Jan 19
Our neo-Prohibitionist friends at the Marin Institute are at it again. Now they are recommending that California slap an additional 25 cents per drink tax on all alcohol in the state to help close a $14 billion budget gap in the state.
In “recommending” the new tax to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and California Legislature the Marin Institute claims the “overdue” tax would generate almost $3 billion in revenue.
The group says increased taxes on alcohol is a way to force the drinks industry to pay its share of costs for California government programs.
posted by admin on Jan 19
In the interest of full disclosure; I will admit up front, that the reason I am reviewing 4 beers from Flying Dog is that they were sent to me by the Flying Dog Brewery PR department. A comment was left in response to my blog post reviewing Jolly Pumpkin Brewery’s Bam Noire by Stephanie, from the PR department of Flying Dog Brewery, offering to send me some free bottles of beer. I, of course, responded like any beer geek would, “I would love some tasty brews from Flying Dog. Who doesn’t like beer delivered to them at work?” True to her word, a few days later a box arrived containing 3 bottles of beer, and then Flying Dog sent me another bottle of a very limited edition beer, their Horn Dog Barrel Aged Barley Wine. Awesome!