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From local brewers to the vineyards of Italy, exotic wines and spirits land on the shelves of our local stores and favorite bars. This site will inform and educate you about what's good and why. I'll share my best cocktail recipes; please send feedback. Together we'll explore what specialties local bartenders are mixing, and mark our calendars for special events. Salut!


Keith Saunders

Bill Roth / Anchorage Daily News Keith Saunders, ADN bartender blogger.January, 15, 2008.

I honed my mixology skills at the Oak Room of the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston. Other experience includes the Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago, and the Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage, where I facilitated community tasting events while bartending at the Crow's Nest. I am currently working with a team of mixologists at Simon & Seafort's. To date, I have created more than 300 new cocktails. I've lived in Anchorage since 1999.

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Remember all of the chocolate milk Mom made for you growing-up? Here is a way to give her one with a little boost.

This is one of my recipes that has been popular for years!

Death-by-Chocolate (creamy, delicate and good for the sweet tooth)

1 1/2 oz. Stoli Vanilla Vodka
3/4 oz. Dark Creme de Cacao
1 1/2 oz of Half and Half
4 drops of chocolate malted syrup

Fill a shaker with ice and add all ingredients and shaake. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and add a little chocolate stick in for stirring and munching.

Salut!


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  2     May 8, 2008 - 10:21pm | mdi_rachel

Yummy!

We give this drink " 2 thumbs up!" The chocolate swizzle stick was always delicious too...

  1     May 8, 2008 - 1:00pm | barbara

Yum Yum

I've had that one before in the Crows Nest. It was good.