Jaunted - Tag: Drinks

Atlanta: Your Next In-Flight Rum & Coke May Be Missing A Key Ingredient

kjb — 2009-03-23T09:03:20-05:00

For the last 77 years, two of Atlanta’s biggest companies, Delta and Coca-Cola, have been best friends on the ground and in the air. However, things aren’t as friendly as they used to be. With the merger between Delta and Northwest, the Atlanta airline is now considering—gasp—Pepsi products.

Northwest has been a proud Pepsi supporter lately, so we’re thinking that they really don’t want to say goodbye to Sierra Mist or Aquafina. And Delta's CEO, Richard Anderson, used to be a hot shot at Northwest, so maybe he’s the one shaking things up. No word on if the airline is considering offering an in-flight Pepsi Challenge.

New Maui-Made Premium Vodka Hits the Skies

ASalkever — 2006-12-04T11:20:02-05:00

(Alex Salkever is the editor of Hawaii travel blog Hawaiirama.com and a general travel maven on all things Hawaii.)

Aloha Airlines says "Mele Kelikimaka!" to haute vodka tossers with the post-Xmas introduction of Ocean Vodka for its First Class bar carts. This zippy liquor comes straight outta Maui, where it's made with deep sea water sucked up from 3,000 feet off the coast of the Big Island.

The grains that go into it are organic. Yet despite these wow ingredients, Ocean still manages to land squarely in the middle of the premium pack with retail prices per big bottle at $40 or less. One catch: due to some weird legalities, an Aloha flight may be the only place you can get the stuff outside of Hawaii. It's not sold on the Mainland, even though you can buy it at Costco, for crying out loud, in the islands.

I've personally tippled Ocean and it's right up there with Hangar One, Ketel, Grey Goose and the other super-premiums. After its First Class debut, Ocean should flow back to Economy in the not so distant future, sez the vodka maker. Make that a double Ocean with tonic, Aloha.

New York: Hoist a Glass and a Book

AVB — 2006-03-29T16:00:34-05:00

Slavs know that drinking goes well with a lot of things, including writing, and by extension, reading. After spying New York magazine's recent round-up of literary reading spots that feature, uh, booze, Slavs of New York noted that many of them are overtly Slavic or have Slavic reading nights.

Where to go for a high-class taste of the near, near, near east? There's Russian Samovar and KGB Bar--no need for an explanation of the connection there--but restaurant Barbes in Brooklyn has a Slavic Soul Party on Tuesdays, and the Bowery Poetry Club also plays host to a plethora of Slavic events.

Ah, alcohol, it goes well with so many things...

[Image via Lady Vervaine/Flickr]

Related Stories:
· Slavic Lit-Bars [Slavs of New York!]
· Bookish Boozing [NY Mag]

Seattle: Zig-Zag Cafe

johnrambow — 2006-02-17T12:00:11-05:00

The mixologists behind the "At Brown's Bar" podcast clued us into the wonders of The Zig-Zag Café, which they call the best cocktail bar in Seattle. The Zig-Zag keeps lots of semi-obscure liqueurs and other ingredients on hand, and takes pride in sloshing them together well. Sounds like a perfect place to finally try those drinks that were your great-grandpappies' favorites back in the day.

Related Stories:
·   Zip Zag Café [Official site]
·   Zig-Zag [Drinkboy]
·   Zig-Zag Café [Citysearch]

Tonight We Drink, for Tomorrow We'll Have to Pay

johnrambow — 2006-01-18T13:38:56-05:00

Belly up while you can on those international trips. As Daily Traveler reports, Northwest will soon stop offering free booze on its long-haul Asia-Pacific flights. United, American, and US Air have already done the same. Saving pennies isn't the only reason: it's also the mean drunks that have ruined it for the rest of us.

Britain's Ready for Thursday

sedona — 2005-11-23T07:54:55-05:00

And we don't mean Thanksgiving. As we let you in on a while back, Nov. 24th is the day that the country's pubs become the recipients of a new law: they can stay open as long as they like. They previously closed at 11pm.

Apparently they are geared up and ready to handle the revelers. A mobile field hospital has been set up in Newcastle to aid with detoxing for the drunken set, and to deal with any injuries. They'll also have bottled water and toilets for partiers.

Related Stories:
· Field hospital for revellers as Britain revamps drinking laws [AFP]
· Drink Up Britain [Jaunted]

Vacation Libation Memories

sedona — 2005-11-21T09:15:10-05:00

There's something about being on vacation that seems to encourage the trying of new drinks one would never touch at home. A blue mai tai? No problem. Campari and soda? Why, we always have a few after work. Drinking locally seems to um, enhance the whole trip.

The Denver Post has a fun column this week about memorable drinks in memorable places. Like this one in Cuba, 10 years ago when the Soviet Union had withdrawn all of its money from the island:

Mojitos had yet to invade the States, and we had never tasted anything so tropically elegant. I had 2 1/2, followed by a really good idea for a novel involving a bullfighter. Every mojito since has brought it back.

Or this one:

Stag's Leap petite syrah in Napa, where I had gone on assignment for Food and Wine magazine without knowing the slightest thing about food. Or wine. "Oh, no big deal," said the PR person assigned to my case. "Just say one of these two things: I'm getting a sort of cherry-berry, cherry-berry thing, and what's going on in the mid-palate? And slosh the wine around in your glass. It makes you look important." Before long, a sort of happy-sappy, sappy-happy thing was going in my mental mid-palate.

Yep, there are quite a few we'd like to relive (vodka in Iceland, that wine harvest in Fiesole). Check out the column and soon enough you'll start remembering yours too....

Related Stories:
· Vacations aren't vacations without libations [Denver Post]