Year: 2014 Page 2

Jeffrey Morgenthaler: The Man Behind the Bar

June 2, 2014

by Kelly Clarke in Portland Monthly Magazine

The legendary Clyde Common bartender reveals his slow rise to cocktail stardom (by way of dive bars and white collar ambitions). With his barrel-aged negronis, bottled café cocktails, and a chatty blog, Portland’s best-known bartender has made his mark on the global cocktail scene—training bartenders from Paris to Helsinki and landing a 2014 James Beard | Read More

They Go Where You Go: DIY Bottled Cocktails

April 18, 2014

by Kenzi Wilbur in Punch Magazine

Bottled cocktails may seem a recent novelty, but bartenders have been throwing spirits in a bottle since Jerry Thomas’s day. Kenzi Wilbur breaks down the DIY art of the to-go cocktail. … This is precisely why respected bars like Clyde Common have brought the bottled cocktail back. “We have certain lines of defense to get | Read More

They Go Where You Go: DIY Bottled Cocktails

April 18, 2014

by Kenzi Wilbur in Punch Magazine

Walking into a bar and ordering a bottled cocktail can feel incongruous to the natural order of things. It doesn’t let you lean seductively over the bar and say scotch, neat. And it doesn’t allow for watching a cast of bartenders perform something like well-rehearsed play—there’s no shaking, no stirring, no straining. You go to a bar | Read More