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Wohoo ! Finally I found a "Social Network" to my taste. No stupid cat things, no politics, no sports,  no Bullshit.  Some of the "BIG" Social Networks have just become to big and boring. Not "cool" anymore... But tonight, Nico de Soto was at Le Lion • Bar de Paris and showed me his newest digital playground: a Social Network just to share your drinking experience in great bars with your friends. Its just about Cocktails, Beer, Spirits and Wine - nothing else. And this is what I was looking for! Shindig - The Community for Drinkers Go Drink Exploring - Shindig for iPhone from Shindig on Vimeo . I played around with Shindig tonight and liked it. So I signed up and will start to upload my drinking safaris on Shindig. Why? Because thats one of the only things  I love to share with people from all over the world. Drinking good drinks in good bars and letting others know where you can have a good drink... Thats what Social Media was made for - ...

If you know what is behind  THE TRAVELING MIXOLOGISTS, I would like to ask you for help. I just pulled out my old bartenders traveling bag, which I used to use for this events and became a little bit sentimental... And I realized that I have lost most of the videos and photos I had from our Traveling Mixologists events. I use to store all the videos at sevenload, which used to be the german youtube. But this b********* (swearword) at sevenloads have decided time ago to delete all old content and it looks like I somehow mist this notification. And because of severals mac changes and some harddisk break downs and one thievery I somehow realized that I missed most of the video, photo footage .... damn! So, I would like to ask you: Do you still have Photos or Videos from our Traveling Mixologists sessions? If so, I would be very happy if you can send them to me. Email, dropbox, wetransfer or upload to youtube etc... whatever. Please let me know at joerg {at.} jrgmyr.net or any ...

When you build a bar, you need lots of things. You need money for sure. But that is just money. You need time, patience, luck, stainless steel, wood, pipes, light and paint. You need to fight against people. And you need to make a team. You need to find friends for your bar - people who love your  bar. Your day needs 28 hours. You need glasses, shakers, ice and people. You need humor and you need to laugh, best about yourself. And you need music. And while you build your bar, you need to find the time to sit down, late at night, on your own, and listen to "your" music. You need to day and night dream and imagine how this all will feel when your bar is open and how you will run it. You have to close your eyes and dream it. While listening to "your" music. When I build my bar Le Lion • Bar de Paris I have very often listen to Charlie Haden. And very often to my favorite Album of all times.  "Night and The City" by Charlie Haden and Kenny Baron, Recor...

July 10th is the birthday of my Gin Basil Smash - so today this juniper soaked liquid  aphrodisiaca is 6 years old - Happy Birthday my friend! If you love him like I do, feel free to come at 6 pm this evening to Le Lion - Bar de Paris. I will spend a Gin Basil Smash and have sonething I want to show you! And if you celebrate somewhere else in the world - please send me a picture or video and enjoy a Basil Smash! See you tonight....

Vorgestern hatte ich das Vergnügen einem alten Freund einen Gefallen zu erweisen. Chris Spake war in der Stadt und gab einen Workshop über "seinen" Tequila: Patron. Wir kennen uns nunmehr 6 Jahre, hatten uns lange nicht mehr gesehen, und so war es mir eine Freude, ihm mit ein paar Drinks zur Seite zu stehen. Ich will ehrlich bleiben: Tequila ist nicht meine größte Leidenschaft. Ich mag Tequila. Nur ist der Löwe nicht gerade ein Schlachtfeld der Agaven-Experimentierfreude. Und so serviere ich in der Regel ein paar gute Tequila Klassiker. Meine Margaritas sind glaube ich durchaus trinkbar, die Tommys ein oft servierter "Everbodies Darling". Die Sazerac-, Old Fashioned- und Negroni Abwandlungen mit Tequila immer wieder gern gemixte Drinks. Und im Boilerman servieren wir,  zu meiner Freude sehr erfolgreich, einen perfekten El Diablo und wie ich befürchte den besten Tequila Sunrise, zumindest im Hamburger Grenzgebiet von Eppendorf zu Eimsbüttel. Solides, gereiftes T...

today I received a phone call from a very nice gentleman, responsible for DIAGEO RESERVE BRANDS, here in Hamburg. "Joerg, I would like to inform you, that we will release Tanqueray OLD TOM Gin in the next few days in germany. It is a classic OLD TOM Gin, a modern interpretation of an old recipe by Charles Tanqueray, developed by great Master Distiller Tom Nichols, sweetened and flavoured with fine extracts of fresh pineapple and botanicals. It is a limited edition like Malacca. If you like too, you can subscribe for 30 bottles per bar, making 60 together for Le Lion and THE BOILERMAN BAR. Price will be around 32,50 € per liter. 100.000 bottles will be done globally. Should I put you up for 60 bottles on the list? Great that this guy asking me and for sure, what great Tom Nichols touches, will taste good. But I was thinking: I its the same conditions like for  Tanqueray Malacca a little ago. At the Malacca release I had the change to subscribe for 60 bottles for around 30 €...