by Duke Egbert

Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae.
    --Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico, Book 1

   When beer and March intersect, it is often a flurry of pseudo-Irish cliches. Once again, I have decided to take the road less traveled this month; I’m sure that if you want information on Irish beers, you will just come see me. Meanwhile, let us also remember that March contains the Ides of March, the day when the Roman dictator Julius Caesar should have called in sick to work. As history tells us, Caesar ended up calling in dead the next day, which made governing Rome nigh-on impossible.

Okay, so I'm not sitting at a bar but,
I'M REGISTERED! for two mixology classes...one online and another "in Austin" course.
For the online, I am awaiting a February first due date for the Pernod sponsored Bar Smarts Wired program. I hear it's difficult and I am super excited... This is gonna be great!
And the "in Austin" is going to be a 12 week course offered by the Tipsy Texan, sponsored by Twin Liquors. This will have us focusing on a different spirit each week-going thru the history of the distillation to creation of classic and new cocktails. It will be a fun communal experience to compliment my solo "online" studies.

To celebrate "going back to school" I had to throw a ladies night. Well, I also have this KXAN spot on 2/13 for which I need to prepare 3 Valentines Day Cocktails. This time there were 5 of us ladies and let's just say by the end of the night I had to "sleep it off"...ouch!