Image taken from TheCocktailNovice.com Layering a drink is a fairly crucial skill for bartending. While it doesn’t have any change in the taste of a drink, it does have an important impact on the drinks presentation. Presentation is pretty important, as more people are interested in buying a drink when it looks really cool. When […]
Image taken from ScreenRant.com I’m sure most of you, if not all, are familiar with James Bond. His drink of choice is almost as famous as the spy himself: vodka martini with a lemon peel, shaken, not stirred. A classy cocktail for a classy man. But this has lead to many, or at the very […]
This week I was places in a 3rd grade class, which had a much different layout from last weeks 7th grade class. The 7th grade classroom was made up of rows of desks, with the teachers desk in the corner at the front of the classroom. This made for a good way of showing a […]
In my school, I don’t remember many lessons we had on cyber security or staying safe on the internet. They would have been few and far between at that time. However, I do remember 2 lessons we had on it. The first was when I was in about 3rd or 4th grade. We were pretty […]
For my first day of field placement, I was placed in Mrs. Kot’s 7th grade class. I mostly spent the first two classes observing. The other student with me and I hung back for this class, as Mrs. Kot gave a lesson about “influences”. I noticed how she moved around the whole room as she […]
Last week when I made the Raspberry Lemonade, I showed a few of the bar tools I had. While going over them I had thought about explaining in a bit of detail what each was and what it was used for. Then, I realized that it would make a much more interesting post on its […]
I was born in 2004, I always thought that made me part of the first generation that grew up with the “modern” internet. Growing up I remember how fun it was to hangout at your friends house, go on his dad’s computer, and just do internet things. Playing flash games, figuring out how to download music, […]
Images taken from Farm Fresh Carolina An important thing to remember about mixology, is that there’s never one true recipe. Every bar you enter could have a different way of making any cocktail. Now, they’re usually pretty similar across the board (for example, a regular gin martini will always be gin with a splash of […]
The Old Fashioned dates back to the 1800’s. Its one of the oldest cocktails in our history, so old that it gets its name from people asking for “one of those good-old fashioned cocktails you used to make” when like martini’s and cosmopolitans where becoming popular. Its name literally come from the fact that its […]
