Exploring Stark Distillery: How Two met for a Beer and ended up opening a Distillery

The mill snarls continuously as Greg Stark knife-in-hand severs 55 pound bags of barley. The weaved white sacks give like slicing into room temperature butter. It’s only 6:30 p.m. but with no moon in the sky it’s dark as midnight. One after another the sacks are slowly poured into the spout of the mill. In …

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Brewed Mai Tais? Order Up!

Reconstructing traditional ideas on what a tiki bar looks like is natural for Nashville’s famous tropical bar Chopper. This “robot friendly” bar kept the bamboo cladded bartop, palm fronds and tiki mugs, but dropped the garish exoticization. In collaboration with Southern Grist Brewing Co. Chopper has done it again, by reimagining a mai tai and …

Jungle Bird

While I’m confined to my house during this pandemic, my mind begins to wonder of a secluded beach far far away. I can see myself there, sunbathing under the sun with the peaceful ocean waves droning in the background. It doesn’t help that for some reason the Beach boys’ “Kokomo” has been glued to my …

Christmas inspired pop-up bar Miracle comes to a city near you

Driving to see christmas lights doesn’t amaze you anymore? Feel like you need a CC of candy cane and sugar plums to resuscitate your listless holiday spirit? Well I have that remedy, and luckily it comes in a cocktail. The annual Miracle pop-up bar will blast you into the christmas mood with their thousands of …

Cocktails on Hand #3 Rum Toddy

For the past two mornings fog has cradled most of Southern California. Is it the first sign of our nonexistent Fall? Maybe. Most likely not. It’s not cold enough to pull that heavy winter jacket out of your closet, but with the sun’s muted rays it's cold enough to not recieve baffled faces if you’re …

Cocktails On Hand #2

It’s true, the daiquiri is a cocktail that’s been riffed on by any and most bartenders, but It doesn’t hold the gold for the most riffs. That title is given to the martini, and all those odd atrocities originating from it. Yes I’m talking to you Bubble Bath Martini.     Though I’m not here …

DIY Home Bar Essentials

Liqueurs are as important to a cocktail recipe as the liquor is to making a drink. For those not in the know, a liqueur is defined as a spirit containing added flavors and sugars, usually from fruits, nuts or herbs. Though liqueurs can be enjoyed neat, over ice, or can be used in cooking and …

Cocktails On Hand #1

Spirits like a scotch are supposed to be sipped on. Other spirits like the ones made from Greenbar Distillery are meant to be mixed into a cocktail. Writing about distilleries without writing about cocktails is like jumping out of a plane without a parachute; if you're into it it’s a thrill, but you won’t last. For …

How Greenbar Distillery has Created Craft Disciples

If any distillery can foster the micro spirits and craft cocktail movement it’s Greenbar Distillery. They know how to transform any craft cocktail appreciator to a raging cocktail zealot. Not some naive cut-for-Bieber zealot, but a let’s drink the Kool-Aid zealot--oh and has Greenbar told you the Kool-Aid’s organic? That’s right, all the produce that’s …

A Tour Infused with Creativity

So you’ve never been to a micro distillery tasting room? Let me tell you of one that’ll make the child in you think they’ve received the golden ticket. No we aren’t going to the chocolate factory, but this distillery has as much imagination as Willy. It’s called Lost Spirits, and from their alcohol to their …