Category: Liquor

New York pub crawls: Because your regular drinking dens are like following the spin-dry cycle

How much is your bar making on you?

Having a hundred dollar night drinking in the city is just expected when you’re boozing anything more than beer or wine. With Rob Cockerham’s cocktail calculator, you can figure out how much profit your bar is making off the 7 Bombay Tonic’s you just pounded over the last 4 hours (at you’re typical Manhattan lounge, …

Happy Bloody Mary Day!

This was an interesting announcement to report which quickly turned into botched publicity stunt, however, we here at GPC will still celebrate any excuse to have a cocktail. The NY Post proclaimed Happy Birthday for the Bloody Mary by interviewing a relative of Fernand Petiot, the proclaimed inventor (in the story) of the Mary. Not …

Whiskey business: Myths of Jack Daniel

The legend of Jack Daniel reaches all the way back to the moment he was born. Unfortunately, nobody knows exactly when that was. Jack Daniel believed the more memorable his image, the more memorable his whiskey. Some records show that Jasper Newton “Jack” Daniel came into the world on September 5, 1846. His tombstone, however, …