Tammy Coxen

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Host of My Tiny Bottles podcast & YouTube series, cocktail class teacher via Tammy's Tastings, SMOF
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Good read about review culture.

The Yelp Effectwww.eater.com Twenty years after its debut, Yelp has changed how we think about reviewing everything and anything

Hired my 20 year old son to do some transcript clean up for MTB episodes. He did well for someone too young to legally drink, but this one made me giggle: "In the US we sort of have 2 major styles of whiskey right? We have urban whiskey, and we have rye whiskey." Me, I like rye better than urban.

At Plonk in Bozeman, MT. They squeeze citrus to order but also free pour, so it's an interesting situation. I got the super fruity vodka drink made with gin and I'm happy. The rocks drink is gin, Campari, St Germain and lime. Also tasty. 🍸

It was so much fun exploring three bottles from Grandma's collection with the amazing Bea Bradsell! We talked about her Dad Dick's legacy, sampled three very different coffee liqueurs, and discused which one would work best in an espresso martini and why. Watch or read the transcript at the link. 🍸

Tasting Video #22 | my tiny bottlesmytinybottles.com Tammy tastes 3 coffee liqueurs from her grandma's collection with Bea Bradsell, daughter of Dick Bradsell, inventor of the espresso martini.

Amazing day at Yellowstone today. Got to see not one, but two of the big impressive geysers go up, Old Faithful and Grand. And so much other amazing stuff!

What does this bottle of novelty whiskey have to do with Star Wars? You'll need to watch, read or listen at the link to find out. The label may says it's a "flavoring" but it's actually a bottle filled with delightful surprises!

Bottle #74: Old Croak | my tiny bottlesmytinybottles.com This novelty bottle of fake whiskey from Par Beverage was full of delightful surprises, from fine art, to the snoot flute and Star Wars!

Well that's interesting news.🍸

Federal judge rules that 156-year-old ban on at-home distilling is unconstitutional #boozenews #boozebuddy #news

Federal judge rules that 156-year-old ban on at-home distilling is unconstitutionalwww.yahoo.com Federal judge in Texas ruled that an 1868 ban on at-home distilling exceeded Congress's taxing power and violated the U.S. Constitution's Commerce Clause.

If you are writing a cocktail recipe in 20-frickin-24, and you use volume measures for other ingredients, but still insist on calling for "the juice of 1/2 a lime," you are a bad recipe writer. I'll forgive the old-timey books, but IME a lime can range from 1/2 oz to 2 oz, and that matters.🍸

Definitely one of the coolest looking bottles in Grandma's collection so far! Tracking down the story of this gorgeous figurine mini took me to San Francisco and the birth of Pisco Punch. Watch, read or listen at the link.

Bottle #73: Inca Pisco | my tiny bottlesmytinybottles.com This tiny bottle of 1970s Inca Pisco from Peru took me to San Francisco, the home of the most famous Pisco cocktail of all - Pisco Punch.

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An amazing essay.

"Being a brilliant writer does not elevate one above the common smallness of being a person." Brandon Taylor on Alice Munro is a must read blgtylr.substack.com/p/what-im-do...

what i'm doing about alice munroblgtylr.substack.com why i hate art monster discourse

"What makes sexual assault accusations tricky to navigate, in part, is this cultural sense that what is perceived as being private should stay private. Trying to take private business public feels off, because it goes against this cultural logic." Great piece on why we need to anyway.

Jeana Jorgensen, Ph.D. · Thinking about Gender & Harm in Relationships (yes, this is about the recent accusations)jeanajorgensen.com As I write this, another prominent man is being accused of sexual assault (you can likely fill in the blank whenever you’re reading this, which is one of the points of this piece: harassment and assau...

Myers's Rum styles itself as THE Planter's Punch rum. In this episode I dive into the history of the drink, including reciting a few of the poems that have been used to document its recipe over the last 300 years! Watch, read or listen at the link! 🍸

Bottle #72: Myers's Original Dark Rum | my tiny bottlesmytinybottles.com

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#ShareGoodNewsToo

Is there such a thing as hope-posting? If not, maybe it's time. Because there are good, hoipeful tings happening out there. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Chemical recycling’: 15-minute reaction turns old clothes into useful moleculeswww.nature.com Fast fashion creates millions of tonnes of waste each year — could clever chemistry help to tackle the problem? Fast fashion creates millions of tonnes of waste each year — could clever chemistry help...

After two older but lesser known coconut rums, Grandma's collection finally spit out the big dog, Malibu. Check out my latest My Tiny Bottles episode to find out about its unexpected origin story and surprising link to its biggest competitor for best-selling liqueur, Bailey's Irish Cream. 🍸

Bottle #71: Malibu | my tiny bottlesmytinybottles.com This bottle of Malibu from the 1980s is the third coconut rum I've found in Grandma's collection of miniature liquor bottles.

Today's WTFBBQ moment was finally tracking down the actual 1908 NYT source of one of the poems that's been used to describe Planter's Punch through the years. I've only ever seen reference to the first stanza, where the actual recipe is given. But it's followed by two fantastic odes to the drink! 🍸

A new and really fun Reveal Video is live! This one was chockful of truly delightful finds from Grandma's collection. And one extra gross one, but hey, that's fun too! Watch or read the transcript at the link.🍸

Reveal #15 | my tiny bottlesmytinybottles.com This unboxing episode sets Tammy up to finally tell the many stories that she's promised in previous episodes about the brands behind her grandma's vintage mini bottles.

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Deforestation in the Amazon continues to plummet in 2024: down 40% from last year and last year was *already* down 40% from the year before! And yes this is *even with* increased forest fires! #ShareGoodNewsToo news.mongabay.com/2024/06/defo...

Deforestation in Earth’s largest rainforest continues to plummet despite a rise in firesnews.mongabay.com Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon continued to plummet in May, reaching the lowest level since March 2018, according to new data from the alert system run by Brazil’s national space research insti...

Heading to the airport after a few days in London. Our Uber is a Tesla, and our driver said he needed to put our small suitcase in the frunk. I have expressed my disappointment that it's not called the froot here.

I really enjoyed reading this piece from Molly Ringwald. Really thoughtful reflection on what we might call today "problematic faves."

ICYMI, Molly Ringwald wrote a pretty nuanced piece with her thoughts about Hughes' "glaring blind spot". She's naturally very generous in her assessment of him overall, but she does go into how not everything in the scripts was cool ‍ www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...

What About “The Breakfast Club”?www.newyorker.com Revisiting the movies of my youth in the age of #MeToo.

This week's episode about Marie Brizard Triple Sec might be my favorite yet - it's an awesome story about the real woman behind the name and the superhero-style rebooting of her mythology and origin story the brand has subjected her to over the years. Watch, read or listen at the link! 🍸

Bottle #69: Marie Brizard Triple Sec | my tiny bottlesmytinybottles.com Marie Brizard, the woman, is like a superhero, complete with an origin story and mythology that is rebooted regularly!

Vacation mixology experiments are coming to a close, so I've gotten a little more ambitious. Yesterday included a cherry rye smash. Today had a Bourbon Rickey (not pictured) and a strawberry rye sour (with egg white). Plus continued Old Fashioneds and Mai Tais. 🍸

Vacation mixology #5? (Who's counting, really?) Opening the bubbly when the power goes out so you can drink it while it's cold. 🍸

In this tasting video with special guest @bill-n1vux.bsky.social we pitted my tiny evaporated bottle of Bell's Extra Special blended Scotch up against a similar 1970s era full-size bottle that had fallen into Bill's hands. See how they compared - watch the video or read the transcript at the link!🍸

Tasting Video #21 | my tiny bottlesmytinybottles.com In this tasting video we pitted my tiny evaporated bottle of Bell's Extra Special blended Scotch up against a similar 1970s era full-size bottle that had fallen into Bill's hands. See how they compare...

Vacation Mixology #4 - Strawberry Wine Spritz. In this glass because I cracked the wine glass muddling a strawberry with a wooden spoon. 🍸

We found an 1956 cookbook in the vacation house we're renting. It has a page of "quantities for 50" for various items. 12-15 lbs meatloaf... One was "juice for cocktail." The person with the book asked me what the answer should be. (1/2)

Vacation mixology #3 - Kentucky Bucks with local Finger Lakes strawberries! So yum. 🍸

Vacation fridge cooking. Used the bacon fat from breakfast to cook the leftover rice and roast pork from the Dominican place with the kimchi we picked up at Son of Egg. Delicious!

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Autistic people aren't being fooled into being nonbinary. We see past the binary that fools you. - LGBTQ Nation www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/06/auti...

Autistic people aren't being fooled into being nonbinary. We see past the binary that fools you. - LGBTQ Nationwww.lgbtqnation.com We examine social norms that others accept without question, so we're more likely to reject the idea that everyone has to be a man or a woman.

Store your open bottles of vermouth in the fridge.

ok i have another quote tweet prompt. what's something, big or small, related to your job or hobby, that most people don't know that you would like to have them know? it can be a concept, a piece of history, some vocabulary, or something else.

Vacation mixology part the second. First distillery outing and retrieved a bourbon from Antler Run Distillery. Then used the Old Fashioned syrup from Liber & Co for an Old Fashioned and a Whiskey Sour.