The Metropolitan Opera’s Macbeth Mixology Contest

  The Metropolitan Opera House hosted it’s third annual one-of-a-kind mixology competition on March 15th, 2012, to celebrate their upcoming performance of Verdi’s MacBeth.  Based on the play by Shakespeare, this classic opera tells the corrupt tale of a man who kills the king in order to overtake his throne and then must continue to murder other in order to keep it.  The tragic and bloody story offers the perfect opportunity to create a “witches’ brew” cocktail competition combining unique cocktails and grand opera.   Six leading New... [Read More]

Thank God it was #WhiskeyFriday with the Black Grouse!

Last Friday, fans of The Black Grouse (makers of a silky smooth whiskey that happens to have completely charmed this writer) had one more reason to TGIF with their #WhiskeyFriday tagged event held at Mable’s Smokehouse in Williamsburg.  The final stop on their already brilliantly badass Distinctive Bartender Tour, Brooklyn–with its notorious penchant for a finely mixed quaff–seemed like the perfect fairytale ending that every fine Whiskey deserves (and every whiskey loving Brooklynite, for that matter!). Already having won... [Read More]