posted by Dave Arnold  You’ve no doubt noticed that when you properly shake an alcoholic drink, the parts of your shaker are drawn tightly together by an internal vacuum force. Why does this happen and how big is the force? A couple of cool things are happening when you shake. First, the air that’s in your […]
posted by Dave Arnold As I mentioned in my last post: Last week I participated in a seminar at Tales of the Cocktail entitled The Science of Shaking. The panel was put together by moderator Eben Klemm (head of bar programs for the B. R. Guest restaurant empire, well-known innovative cocktail guy, and former biologist) […]
Posted by Dave Arnold Last week I participated in a seminar at Tales of the Cocktail entitled, “The Science of Shaking.” The panel was put together by moderator Eben Klemm (head of bar programs for the B. R. Guest restaurant empire, well-known innovative cocktail guy, and former biologist) with Alex Day (famed bartender from Death […]
by Dave Arnold At this year’s Star Chefs conference I whipped up some beaver-flapper puffs for the crowd to munch on (see here for recipe), and Nils and I liquored everyone up with a passel of cocktails. Our 75 minute demo showcased three different techniques at three different attainability levels: rapid N2O infusion (within anyone’s […]
by Dave Arnold Hello all. I just got back from Tales of the Cocktail, the cocktail world’s booze-soaked yearly festival in New Orleans. I will post about the seminar I was in, The Science of Stirring, very soon. In the mean time, if you want to learn some techno-cocktail techniques, Nils and I are doing […]
