Tammy Coxen
@tammylc.bsky.social
Booze and cocktail history nerd. I host the My Tiny Bottles podcast & YouTube series (mytinybottles.com), and teach cocktail classes online and in-person as Tammy's Tastings (tammystastings.com). Also a SMOF, so may occasionally post about SF conrunning.
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Tammy Coxen
@tammylc.bsky.social
· Dec 2
Looking for cocktail folks? Here's my starter pack of people who post about drinks and spirits! New additions include @roberthess.bsky.social, @rumwonk.bsky.social, @tiki-tom-tom.bsky.social, @andrewbohrer.bsky.social and @carrieallan.bsky.social
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Little scientific support for 'there is no safe level of alcohol intake'.
JOURNAL OF WINE ECONOMICS, 2025, 20(3):
“How Much Is Too Much? A Methodological Investigation of the Literature on Alcohol Consumption and Health” by S Castriota, P Frumento & F Suppressa
wine-economics.org/wp-content/u...
JOURNAL OF WINE ECONOMICS, 2025, 20(3):
“How Much Is Too Much? A Methodological Investigation of the Literature on Alcohol Consumption and Health” by S Castriota, P Frumento & F Suppressa
wine-economics.org/wp-content/u...
December 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Little scientific support for 'there is no safe level of alcohol intake'.
JOURNAL OF WINE ECONOMICS, 2025, 20(3):
“How Much Is Too Much? A Methodological Investigation of the Literature on Alcohol Consumption and Health” by S Castriota, P Frumento & F Suppressa
wine-economics.org/wp-content/u...
JOURNAL OF WINE ECONOMICS, 2025, 20(3):
“How Much Is Too Much? A Methodological Investigation of the Literature on Alcohol Consumption and Health” by S Castriota, P Frumento & F Suppressa
wine-economics.org/wp-content/u...
A truly glorious review of a truly mediocre restaurant. "She lit the drink. The steel wool pulsed with a warm, luxurious shimmer before almost immediately fizzling into a cold pile (yes, this is a metaphor). The drink tasted like a Cosmo someone had strained through a French Vanilla Yankee Candle."
Two Nights Playing With Fire At Patrick Mahomes And Travis Kelce's Steakhouse | Defector
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As celebrity restaurant mascots, athletes offer a tidy sense of vertical integration: Why not supply the very calories they need to expend on the field? I’m surprised there are so f...
defector.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
A truly glorious review of a truly mediocre restaurant. "She lit the drink. The steel wool pulsed with a warm, luxurious shimmer before almost immediately fizzling into a cold pile (yes, this is a metaphor). The drink tasted like a Cosmo someone had strained through a French Vanilla Yankee Candle."
Fun read!
this 1927 story about citrus hybrids is nuts. one, it tells of the birth of the tangelo, which seems incredibly old-world and fussy and for which I am grateful today, and also it casually mentions the passing of the entire lime market, because saloons are outlawed.
www.nytimes.com/1927/10/23/a...
www.nytimes.com/1927/10/23/a...
NOVEL CITRUS FRUITS CREATED BY SCIENTISTS; Department of Agriculture Experts Have Bred a New Group That Promises to Be of Great Economic Value -- Experiments Began Nearly Forty Years Ago (Published 19...
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Fun read!
Just found out this is a thing that exists. Terrifying, but I might have to try it.
www.hellmanns.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Just found out this is a thing that exists. Terrifying, but I might have to try it.
Tried a Chamberyzette martini tonight. Very pretty. I ended up at 2 oz Hendricks, 3/4 Chamberyzette and 4 drops lavender bitters. I think it wanted a lemon twist most, but I didn't have that, so experimented with lime and orange which were both good.
December 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Tried a Chamberyzette martini tonight. Very pretty. I ended up at 2 oz Hendricks, 3/4 Chamberyzette and 4 drops lavender bitters. I think it wanted a lemon twist most, but I didn't have that, so experimented with lime and orange which were both good.
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"To start typing a weird question and stop halfway through because you don’t want the algorithm to decide this is who you are now, and then immediately panic, knowing it probably logged it before you erased it."
Revised Definitions of the Verb “To Google”
1. To look something up quickly and then spend twenty minutes fact-checking the AI summary, only to find out that it was absolutely wrong. 2. To se...
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December 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"To start typing a weird question and stop halfway through because you don’t want the algorithm to decide this is who you are now, and then immediately panic, knowing it probably logged it before you erased it."
Finally got to do a side-by-side I've been waiting for. In Jan 2024 I went to visit the Dolin vermouth factory in Chambery. We got an awesome tour from the president of the company. They weren't set up to do tastings, so they told us we could each take away a bottle. 1/
December 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Finally got to do a side-by-side I've been waiting for. In Jan 2024 I went to visit the Dolin vermouth factory in Chambery. We got an awesome tour from the president of the company. They weren't set up to do tastings, so they told us we could each take away a bottle. 1/
I know you're supposed to have pizza in New Haven, but there's a place right around the corner for my hotel called Hot Murga, which is Nashville hot chicken meets Indian food, and how can I resist that combo?
December 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I know you're supposed to have pizza in New Haven, but there's a place right around the corner for my hotel called Hot Murga, which is Nashville hot chicken meets Indian food, and how can I resist that combo?
Really interesting!
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
laurenleek.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Really interesting!
Whale oil margarine?!? More fun Canadian margarine facts in the thread.
The Newfoundland Butter Company made margarine from whale, seal and fish oil. That margarine was then smuggled into Canada where it was sold for half the price of butter.
The company was established by Sir John Crosbie, the Minister of Fisheries in Newfoundland.
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The company was established by Sir John Crosbie, the Minister of Fisheries in Newfoundland.
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December 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Whale oil margarine?!? More fun Canadian margarine facts in the thread.
Citrus free menu at Lucy's Flower Shop in Stockholm. Lots of really interesting stuff going on in each of these.
December 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Citrus free menu at Lucy's Flower Shop in Stockholm. Lots of really interesting stuff going on in each of these.
Great dinner tonight with friends (including @ceciliatan.co and @jeredfloyd.bsky.social ) at Guilia in Cambridge, MA. There were 5 of us and we ordered a dumb amount of food to share. 1/
December 3, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Great dinner tonight with friends (including @ceciliatan.co and @jeredfloyd.bsky.social ) at Guilia in Cambridge, MA. There were 5 of us and we ordered a dumb amount of food to share. 1/
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Nova Scotia looks to get rid of its remaining inventory of U.S. alcohol worth $14 million before it expires; all proceeds go to charity. New Brunswick is also selling its remaining $3.4 million worth of U.S. alcohol in storage at discounted prices. Quebec donated it.
globalnews.ca/news/1154636...
globalnews.ca/news/1154636...
Nova Scotia to sell last of U.S. booze pulled from shelves, giving profits to charity | Globalnews.ca
The premier says Nova Scotia is 'committed to a Team Canada approach to tariffs and trade' and will not order any more alcohol from the United States once this inventory is gone.
globalnews.ca
December 2, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Nova Scotia looks to get rid of its remaining inventory of U.S. alcohol worth $14 million before it expires; all proceeds go to charity. New Brunswick is also selling its remaining $3.4 million worth of U.S. alcohol in storage at discounted prices. Quebec donated it.
globalnews.ca/news/1154636...
globalnews.ca/news/1154636...
Here's a little follow up to my tasting episode with Keith Waldbauer. Keith was busy working by that point, so my guest was @cocktailchron.bsky.social, who I'd tasted gin with earlier that same day. We had fun comparing Grandma's tiny bottle of 80s Courvoisier VS with a modern VSOP.
December 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Here's a little follow up to my tasting episode with Keith Waldbauer. Keith was busy working by that point, so my guest was @cocktailchron.bsky.social, who I'd tasted gin with earlier that same day. We had fun comparing Grandma's tiny bottle of 80s Courvoisier VS with a modern VSOP.
Okay, I said this year's turkey fat washed bourbon was fascinatingly different. The last time I made this, I did it using turkey fat that I'd got purely from rendering the skin. This time I used the turkey fat leftover from roasting a spatchcocked turkey over onion, celery, carrot, sage & thyme. 1/
December 1, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Okay, I said this year's turkey fat washed bourbon was fascinatingly different. The last time I made this, I did it using turkey fat that I'd got purely from rendering the skin. This time I used the turkey fat leftover from roasting a spatchcocked turkey over onion, celery, carrot, sage & thyme. 1/
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"Fowk nae sae acquent wi Scots" describes me. So Burns was going easy on me, was he, when he "screived mony poems" "in a kin o licht Scots that can be easy read?" Thanks, Robbie!
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November 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
"Fowk nae sae acquent wi Scots" describes me. So Burns was going easy on me, was he, when he "screived mony poems" "in a kin o licht Scots that can be easy read?" Thanks, Robbie!
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The answer was Meletti. Nonino was too sweet. Meletti has some major overlap with Montenegro so, that's the one he went for. The Ramazzotti started well but had a weird finish, maybe because it's a very old bottle. The Lucano was just wrong with port. "Too alpine" he said, and I agreed.
My partner's fave aperitivo is 50/50 tawny port & Montenegro. But as I've noted previously, I moved my 48 most critical bottles to Canada. So I have neither of those here. But I did buy a bottle of ruby port to test a recipe, so I gave him four options to try. Which one do you think he chose?
November 30, 2025 at 2:39 AM
The answer was Meletti. Nonino was too sweet. Meletti has some major overlap with Montenegro so, that's the one he went for. The Ramazzotti started well but had a weird finish, maybe because it's a very old bottle. The Lucano was just wrong with port. "Too alpine" he said, and I agreed.
YouTube tells me that none of you have yet spent just under 3 minutes watching this video about my turkey fat washing experiment. So I'm going to repost it so you have a chance before I talk about this year's version, which has just come out of the freezer and is fascinatingly different.
Okay, just spent way too long reminding myself of why I pay someone to edit my videos, but here's a trimmed down version of an ancient Facebook live video where I made the turkey fat washed Wild Turkey Turkey & Sage cocktail, in case you want to know what that's like!
November 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
YouTube tells me that none of you have yet spent just under 3 minutes watching this video about my turkey fat washing experiment. So I'm going to repost it so you have a chance before I talk about this year's version, which has just come out of the freezer and is fascinatingly different.
My partner's fave aperitivo is 50/50 tawny port & Montenegro. But as I've noted previously, I moved my 48 most critical bottles to Canada. So I have neither of those here. But I did buy a bottle of ruby port to test a recipe, so I gave him four options to try. Which one do you think he chose?
November 29, 2025 at 11:38 PM
My partner's fave aperitivo is 50/50 tawny port & Montenegro. But as I've noted previously, I moved my 48 most critical bottles to Canada. So I have neither of those here. But I did buy a bottle of ruby port to test a recipe, so I gave him four options to try. Which one do you think he chose?
Okay, just spent way too long reminding myself of why I pay someone to edit my videos, but here's a trimmed down version of an ancient Facebook live video where I made the turkey fat washed Wild Turkey Turkey & Sage cocktail, in case you want to know what that's like!
November 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Okay, just spent way too long reminding myself of why I pay someone to edit my videos, but here's a trimmed down version of an ancient Facebook live video where I made the turkey fat washed Wild Turkey Turkey & Sage cocktail, in case you want to know what that's like!
Have started a batch of turkey fat washed bourbon to use for Turkey and Sage cocktails!
November 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Have started a batch of turkey fat washed bourbon to use for Turkey and Sage cocktails!
Timing is everything!
November 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Timing is everything!
Here's my book, Cheers to Michigan, which is perfect for the craft cocktail or Michigan fan in your life. And on sale! Use HOLIDAY25 to save 50%!
November 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Here's my book, Cheers to Michigan, which is perfect for the craft cocktail or Michigan fan in your life. And on sale! Use HOLIDAY25 to save 50%!
When I moved 48 bottles from my bar in Cambridge to Toronto for the year, it left some holes. Some of which I discovered tonight when I wanted to make margaritas to go with fajitas. Engage Mr Potato Head mode! Mezcal, grapefruit liqueur, and a dash of orange bitters was in the right neighborhood!
November 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
When I moved 48 bottles from my bar in Cambridge to Toronto for the year, it left some holes. Some of which I discovered tonight when I wanted to make margaritas to go with fajitas. Engage Mr Potato Head mode! Mezcal, grapefruit liqueur, and a dash of orange bitters was in the right neighborhood!
Very relatable
"You’ve been obsessively trying to prepare for it, but who knows what will actually happen."
Thanksgiving or Perimenopause?
1. There’s a turkey neck situation. 2. Is it four thousand degrees in the kitchen, or is it just you? 3. You love your family, but you also wish th...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Very relatable