Monthly Archives: November 2011

— No. 97 —

Bittercube Bitters

This sum­mer I went out west on a cock­tail tour, which includ­ed Seat­tle and Port­land. I was sit­ting at the Tav­ern Law in Seat­tle and across the way I saw a guy that looked like one of the pro­duc­ers of Bit­ter­cube Bit­ters. I’ve always been a fan of this com­pa­ny. Their unique bit­ters are qual­i­ty and their events are always intrigu­ing. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, I do not live any­where near Mil­wau­kee. Nick is a dis­tinct char­ac­ter, so I moved down a cou­ple …

— No. 95 —

La Distillerie Combier

I was lucky enough to meet the very per­son­able Curt Gold­man who is a part­ner of Cadre Noir, an importer of arti­sanal French liqueurs, crèmes and spir­its. I emailed Curt and he prompt­ly came out to the Mary­land Club to pro­mote his prod­ucts. I’m glad he did. I was very pleased with the La Dis­til­lerie Com­bier prod­uct line, which is the old­est work­ing dis­tillery in France’s Loire Val­ley. The Com­bier web­site tells the sto­ry that began near­ly 175 years ago at 48 Rue …