http://www.elbasgiron.com/wordpress Cocktail Stylist, Photographer, Mixologist Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:22:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Nothing beats cold, delicious, juicy watermelon!  Especially as the warm, summer days are approaching! Check out the refreshing, Watermelon Collins Cocktail using Partida Tequila, 100% Blue Agave Tequila and see how quick and easy this recipe is to make for all your parties! [flashvideo filename="http://www.elbasgiron.com/images/WatermelonCollins.flv" width="500" height="320" /] http://www.elbasgiron.com/wordpress/?p=733 [singlepic=440,575,400,,center] We recently began following an awesome blog, Mixology Monday, written by Paul Clarke of The Cocktail Chronicles, that hosts a monthly online cocktail party.  They call out an ingredient and ask all of us bloggers to create, post, and blog about cocktails around that ingredient.  This month they are featuring ... http://www.elbasgiron.com/wordpress/?p=724 Geez...let me dust the cobwebs off.  It's been a while since I last posted some new things...but for a really good reason! [singlepic=433,500,300,,center]Okay okay...what'd you think?  I was going to give you the news right away?  Nah...I'll show you first all the great new photography I have been working.  Hope you ... http://www.elbasgiron.com/wordpress/?p=707 That's right.  Bols Genever hosted the USBG's May Mixer in New York City at Little Branch. [singlepic=418,600,400,,center] [singlepic=421,600,400,,center] Bartender's from all over New York City and New Jersey got together to learn more about Genever from Tal Nadari in a very ambient environment and then chilled out while Sasha (the owner of Little ... http://www.elbasgiron.com/wordpress/?p=700 I know...the name is eerie, but the art and drink is delicious!!! [singlepic=397,500,300,,center] I was apart of the USBG Competition here in New York at the World Bar and competed with my Bad News. This is a delicious cocktail and I will do you one better, I will give you the recipe, ... http://www.elbasgiron.com/wordpress/?p=676 To kick off this past weekend, the New York City Chapter of the United States Bartender's Guild hosted a cocktail competition featuring Tres Generaciones Tequila, [singlepic=395,500,300,,center] Fernet Branca, and Carpano Antica at The World Bar in Trump Tower. [singlepic=394,500,300,,center] Dale Degroff hosted the competition as the Master of Ceremony [singlepic=376,500,300,,center] and the panel of judges featured Tad ... http://www.elbasgiron.com/wordpress/?p=658 You all saw the cocktail photographs that I did for Derek Brown,  back in early March. [singlepic=375,500,320,,center] Well... they are back!!!  and Derek Brown just went live with www.Better-Drinking.com.  I absolutely love what his designers created for his site and for my photography!! So a little history...Derek and I met last year around ... http://www.elbasgiron.com/wordpress/?p=641 Grand Marnier, Navan, and Vail, Colorado.  Now this is a recipe for a great weekend!!! [singlepic=363,300,420,,center] [singlepic=362,300,420,,center] [singlepic=351,500,320,,center] One hundred of the nation's top mixologists got together for the Grand Marnier Mixology Summit in Vail, Colorado.  I was so fortunate to have been invited along with many of my dear friends.  We all enjoyed ... http://www.elbasgiron.com/wordpress/?p=613 [singlepic=308,480,325,,center] Who would have thought that desserts in a cocktail form is a recipe for indulgence!  Well....great news to share with you!  Jell-O and I have partnered to bring you new and delicious cocktail inspired desserts that I have created exclusively for the Jell-O Lounge. I couldn't have had a better opportunity ... http://www.elbasgiron.com/wordpress/?p=588 [flashvideo filename="http://www.elbasgiron.com/images/TequilaMojito.flv" width="500" height="320" /] Mojito... I hear this and I can't help but daydream about laying on the beach with a Tequila Mojito in hand!!!  Well....summer is coming very soon and what better way than to enjoy a great cocktail like the Mojito, with a twist.  Partida Tequila and I put ... http://www.elbasgiron.com/wordpress/?p=591