If anything, other than an ice cold red wine drink, it can be sometimes hard to predict what you’ll get exactly. His first book, Apothecary Cocktails- will be released by Rockport/Quayside Publishing in November 2013.

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Her love of exploring the best food and drink a city has to offer led her to co-found Epic Brew Tours, which specializes in craft brewery tours in Michigan. Kaya Johnson is a professional interpreter from Yorkshire, UK, who is fond of writing and traveling.Redondo understood the importance of advertising - he used to say that "after laying an egg, the hen clucks" – so he launched the first Portuguese advertising campaign using billboards. Like France’s champagne, fortified wine is only considered port if the grapes are grown in the Douro Valley region in northern Portugal.

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She is the author of several cocktail books, including The Big Book of Bourbon, Prosecco Made Me Do It: 60 Seriously Sparkling Cocktails, Forager’s Cocktails, and the Architecture of the Cocktail.James Tai is the Principal of Beeracolyte Consulting, specializing in education and training for bars, restaurants, breweries, as well as private and corporate events. Similarly, Absinthe, with its infamous reputation of producing wild hallucinations was originally prescribed as a cure for everything from epilepsy, malaria and even parasites.

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It’s believed the Phoenicians brought the grapes to Iberia, and the Romans tended or expanded the vineyards. After a stint in Napa Valley she now focuses on writing about wine through the lens of travel and lifestyle. Resident in Berlin since 2012, he’s been covering the German and European bar scene for Mixology magazine and has thus become well-versed in all aspects of the biz. In addition to being a beer aficionado, he is also an avid fan of music who has had the opportunity to interview countless music artists, including Grammy nominees.

When he is not hiking with his family or planning spirit classes at his restaurants he can be found by his fireplace sipping drams of Scotch or Mezcal finding inspiration for his blog Life by the Drop http://blog.