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		<title>A Bitter Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[      For the last month I&#8217;ve had four mason jars on my bookshelf doing nothing but staring blankly at me and slowly turn shades of brown, red and gold. For a month I&#8217;ve been walking past them eyeing them with a mix of patient joy and apprehension. I would often wonder if all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bespokebartender.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8109794&#038;post=100&#038;subd=bespokebartender&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ginger Beer for What Ails You</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[    It is a dark day.  The sun is hidden by the vindictive clouds looming low on the horizon, thunder claps peal across the city and my thoughts turn to Ginger Beer.  Specifically, I&#8217;m gagging for a Dark and Stormy right about now, and seeing as the weather is such, I thought to while [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bespokebartender.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8109794&#038;post=79&#038;subd=bespokebartender&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guerilla Bartending</title>
		<link>http://bespokebartender.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/guerilla-bartending/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bon Vivant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I did a small favour for a friend.  At this  large loft-esque apartment with patio there were about a hundred guests.   Alec and his roommate Farzad set out the turntables connected to a mac and belted out some brilliant tunes, most of which sounded early R&#38;B, gospel and funk.  Something like Nina [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bespokebartender.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8109794&#038;post=61&#038;subd=bespokebartender&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I could eat a peach&#8230;   Or let it sit in bourbon for a month.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two days ago I got my hands on some very overripe organic peaches.  Rather than eat them I stuffed them in a mason jar and filled it with bourbon.  Why, you ask? Peach bitters! Today I spent some time wandering around Kensington Market looking for things witches buy.  I found them all, with the unsurprising [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bespokebartender.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8109794&#038;post=56&#038;subd=bespokebartender&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Old Fashioned</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bon Vivant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple days ago I started curing cherries in bourbon.  I had some syrup saved that I had poached overripe peaches in.  In the liquid was star anise, cardamom and a vanilla bean.  At a bit of a loss for what I&#8217;d use it for, I added it to the curing liquid.  Only a few [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bespokebartender.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8109794&#038;post=42&#038;subd=bespokebartender&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A nip like no other</title>
		<link>http://bespokebartender.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/a-nip-like-no-other/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bon Vivant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first posting on whisky it would seem appropriate to talk about one that is near and dear to me. Brora distillery is one of those that is now confined to the annals of history. The distillery was opened by the infamous Marquis de Stafford as Clynelish and received its licence in 1824.  It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bespokebartender.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8109794&#038;post=31&#038;subd=bespokebartender&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, show me the way to the next whisky bar!</title>
		<link>http://bespokebartender.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/oh-show-me-the-way-to-the-next-whisky-bar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bon Vivant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whisky.  Here, specifically Malt Whisky or Single Malt Scotch, is something different.  It is romantic, ideal and utopian.  At its base are distillate and flavour, but there is more.  Oh, so much more. In whisky you taste the water that flowed over river beds in days gone by.  You feel the hopes and dreams of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bespokebartender.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8109794&#038;post=24&#038;subd=bespokebartender&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In lieu of a &#8217;59 Bollinger to Christen&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://bespokebartender.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/in-lieu-of-a-59-bollinger-to-christen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This space has been created in the hope of courting an exchange of ideas here in Toronto; specifically in the areas of dining and imbibing and the restaurant industry as a whole (perhaps a little ambitious). Oh, and semicolons. I have just discovered them and don&#8217;t care if they&#8217;re misused. They are the height of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bespokebartender.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8109794&#038;post=7&#038;subd=bespokebartender&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gin.</title>
		<link>http://bespokebartender.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/gin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love Gin.  I really do, so I thought it appropriate to begin with this.  Gin is not my first love, but my most recent.  My first love is malt whisky, but I turn to gin because she is not as jealous as her barley counterpart.  Gin is also the underdog.  Once the king of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bespokebartender.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8109794&#038;post=8&#038;subd=bespokebartender&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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