@fredericyarm
Boston bartender, cocktail blogger, author of Drink & Tell: A Boston Cocktail Book and Boston Cocktails: Drunk & Told, USBG Boston officer. He/him.
cocktailvirgin.blogspot.comHow to talk to your bar hero: an essay I wrote after returning back from Portland Cocktail Week and reflecting on my early years. Also with thoughts on how to be more approachable in case someone wants to approach you at an event.
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I recently returned from Portland Cocktail Week where there was a mixed array of attendees, presenters, and staff in the bar industry at all...
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The Clash cocktail biopic: 9 drinks inspired by songs or lyrics from The Clash by bartenders.
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My article on four local amaro producers (whether due to tariffs making the imports too pricy or just because these taste delicious) just came out in Edible Boston/Edible Worcester.
Edible Drinks: Local Amari Are Nothing to be Bitter About — Edible Boston
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After 16+ years, I finally wrote up my article on my city's rum distillery that produced Somerville Distillery Rum from the 1880s until Prohibition. This was a project that began in 2007-08 with a curiosity sparked by reading Wayne Curtis' And A Bottle of Rum that mentions Somerville rum and that led me to do research in starting in 2009.
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I first learned of my areas rich history in rum production when I read Wayne Curtis’ And A Bottle of Rum  circa 2007-08 where the book alert...
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The Georgetown Club: a white rum-based Martini of sorts that I found 15 years ago in my Charles H. Baker's South American Companion and put on the menu at Loyal Nine in late Spring 2016.
This Is My Go-To Summer Martini
A forgotten recipe made with “the finest” rum has been in my rotation for nearly a decade.
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My article on my favorite affordable Canadian whisky, Lot No. 40, that is a 100% rye and around 6 year old was published in Men's Journal (the text is mine, the title is theirs).
I've Tried Hundreds of Whiskies. This Affordable Canadian Rye Is a Well-Kept Secret
I used to dislike Canadian whisky. This rye was a revelation.
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Men's Journal just published my article on Gouden Carolus Single Malt – a flavorsome whisky made with Belgian ale yeast and based off of their tripel's mash minus the hops.
This Unique Single Malt Whisky Proves That Different Yeast Strains Change Flavor. Here's How It Tastes
It's produced by a distillery that also made beer for hundreds of years.
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My first beer article got published in Men's Journal yesterday! It's about the history of bock beer, how it turned religious and spring-associated with the dopplebock, morphed over time into the weizenbock (and weizendoppelbock), maibock, and eisbock, and why there's a plastic goat on some of the bottles.
This Historic Style of Beer Is Perfect for Spring Sipping. Look Out for Our Top 11 Picks
Dating back 600 years, this type of beer is best enjoyed when winter begins to fade.
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My third article in Men's Journal went live yesterday about Connemara that brought back the lost style of peated Irish whiskey to the world.
A Historic Style of Whiskey Was Almost Lost Forever—Until This Distillery Brought It Back
Its flagship bottling belongs on every whiskey aficionado's shelf.
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Cobra's Tail as my mashup of the Cobra's Fang with the Lion's Tail plus swapping out the orange juice for the bitter orange liqueur Campari. I was inspired by Wusong Road's riff on the original Cobra's Fang on the menu for the Chinese New Year for Year of the Snake.
cobra's tail
3/4 oz Planteray OFTD Rum 1 1/4 oz Bonded Bourbon (Evan Williams Bonded) 1 oz Lime Juice 3/4 oz Passion Fruit Syrup 1/2 oz Campari 1/2 ...
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The slide deck for the talk I did yesterday for the Colorado Preservation conference on the intangible heritage of cocktails.
FredericYarm_CocktailsPreservationTalk_Colorado2025.pdf
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In a Reddit Cocktails thread today on Punt e Mes drinks, someone posted my Trash Polka drink that was a Ferrari (Fernet/Campari) taken by way of the Redhook and finished off like a Sazerac. Named for a German style of tattooing with black (Fernet) and red (Campari) motifs.
trash polka
1 oz Fernet Branca 1 oz Campari 1/2 oz Punt e Mes 1/2 oz Maraschino 4 dash Peychaud's Bitters Stir with ice, strain into a double old f...
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An article I wrote about an intriguing single malt whiskey -- but made either rye instead of Scotch's barley. The brainchild of Fritz Maytag while at Anchor Brewing.
Prefer Scotch to Rye Whiskey? This Single Malt Rye Might Change Your Mind
The unique San Francisco bottle melds rye’s 18th century past with today's Scotch whisky production.
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