About Cocktailia

Welcome to Cocktailia! Cocktailia was started in 2007 by Kenn Wilson when he realized that he had been posting bar reviews and cocktail recipes to his own personal blog for years and he should do something more useful with them.

Leaving the third-person now. I launched this site for two reasons. The first is to have one convenient place for all my cocktail-related posts, reviews, and recipes, so people can browse them easier without having to wade through the rest of my site. Second, now that they’re in their own dedicated space, I can more easily see the obvious gaps I’ve left and can easier work on making this a better guide.

I’m not trying to be a comprehensive bar guide. We already have Yelp and others for that. Neither am I trying to be the be-all, end-all drink recipe resource. I don’t have nearly enough time to compile a collection that could even come near some of the other drink databases out there. I’m just writing my thoughts on bars I hang out at and drinks I make at home. I hope this has its own value.

Most of my drink recipes come from two great books: The Craft of the Cocktail by Dale Degroff and The Art of the Bar by Jeff Hollinger and Rob Schwartz, who also tend bar at the wonderful Absinthe Brasserie and Bar here in San Francisco (which I have yet to write a proper review of).

Contribute

Most of my reviews cover the two areas I spend most of my time in, San Francisco and Los Angeles. I’d like to find contributers in other metro areas, so if you hang out at lots of bars and like writing about it, get in touch. Or if you just need a place to write up your own recipes.

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This site is written in XHTML 1.0 Strict with the presentation in CSS, based on a design by Arun Kale. The backend is powered by Wordpress. Cocktailia is hosted by Corvid Works, Kenn’s web consultancy specializing in helping small businesses and organizations get the most out of what the web has to offer.

All text and images on this site are © Cocktailia unless otherwise noted, and are licensed under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0). You may use the content on this site freely as long as this use is non-commercial, credit is given to us as the creators, and any derivative works are released under this same license.

Now go forth and enjoy!

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