The Academy Drinks arranges seminars and conducts private training on cocktails, spirits, and the history and culture of drink.
The Academy Drinks tailors spirits and cocktail tastings for beginners and connoisseurs, combining drink history with interactive sensory experience.
04/05/2025
New peach trees in the orchard this year! The blossoms smell like honey. I realize it’s because our honey smells like our flowers but it is still such a striking smell on the trees.
Ive never used peach flowers for anything because I fear the cyanide compounds. Have any of you used them for anything?
11/23/2024
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I am thankful for the wonderful people I am so fortunate to have in my life, including the many of you whom I met through here.
Cheers to Mike & Barbie of for their friendship and kindness to my family! I love them for who they are. But they also happen to make some of my favorite spirits. This one here is their new(ish) apple brandy, in a scaffa my husband wants me to return to him right now.
10/19/2024
A perfect evening. How is it that I dont get old lady whisky flush when Im back here? Looking at you & ?
Are there places where certain food or drink just hits differently for you?
01/08/2024
Sustainable farming practices & fair working conditions are important to many of us. But we don't always realize what goes into making our food & drink. Michael Adno 's Rolling Stone article about sugar harvesting in the Florida Everglades shines a light on practices many folks may have thought were a thing of the past.https://bit.ly/48MfH4u
A Fire in the River: Big Sugar and 'Black Snow' in the Everglades The sugar-harvesting business in Florida’s heartland has heath and environmental consequences
08/09/2023
Many beverage alcohol products aren’t subject to sanctions. Read past the headline to learn more about which companies have resumed sales and hiring in Russia. Bacardi isn’t the only one.
Bacardi’s Russia Business Grows as Other Booze Makers Leave Country The owner of Grey Goose vodka and Bacardi rum is hiring staff and shipping millions of dollars of products to the market.
07/12/2023
Anchor Brewing announced its closing today. Many factors led to the USA's 3rd oldest brewery's demise. But making bad beer wasn't one of them.
San Francisco's historic Anchor Brewing shuts down, citing 'sluggish' business The beer institution was losing around $10 million per year since COVID-19 'significantly affected' its business, according to parent company Sapporo Holdings Ltd.
06/02/2023
Check out this latest VinePair made with data from the Brewers Association. Drinking habits reveal so much about culture. Every time Vermont tops one of these lists, it surprises people outside the state. What does a map like this suggest to you about various regions?
06/02/2023
Check out this latest made with data from the . Drinking habits reveal so much about culture. Everytime Vermont tops one of these lists, it surprises people outside the state. What does a map like this suggest to you about various regions?
Check out this latest made with data from the . Drinking habits reveal so much about culture. Everytime Vermont tops one of these lists, it surprises people outside the state. What does a map like this suggest to you about various regions? https://bit.ly/3IQjKlW
05/19/2023
If you aren’t already familiar with check out his reporting. and what happens in corporate booze news is news. See Bud Light’s Self-Inflicted Pride Month Predicament
Bud Light’s Self-Inflicted Pride Month Predicament Bud Light has spent weeks bowing to right-wing extremists following a partnership with trans activist Dylan Mulvaney. Now, Pride is coming.
03/24/2023
Earlier this week Coca-Cola launched its website "letting" customers use AI tools on its intellectual property to create new marketing for the company. CEO James Quincey calls the move disruptive. Who knew fence whitewashing was so groundbreaking?
Coca-Cola Launches 'Create Real Magic' AI Tool Coca-Cola President and CFO John Murphy joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow to discuss the company's launch of its new platform 'Create Real Magic.' It lets people use artificial intelligence to create original artwork using assets from the Coca-Cola archives. It was built exclusively for Coca-Cola by...
01/27/2023
Anyone tempted to laugh off the lawsuit over Fireball should consider that history of food safety is tied to concerns about the purity of whiskey: from the 1897 Bottled in Bond Act to the 1909 Taft Decision defining "straight" whiskey etc to current TTB regulations.
Fireball Maker Is Sued Over Bottles That Don’t Contain Whisky An Illinois woman who wanted whisky, but got a cinnamon-and-whisky-flavored malt beverage instead, has sued the maker of Fireball for fraud.