Studio 151

When it comes to drinking alcohol I think that I started before most people. I remember making a rum and coke with my mom when we were on vacation at my Grandparents summer home when I was 10 years old. The first time that I remember being drunk was all on my brother (Dan). I was 12 years old, it was New Years Eve and we were taking shots of butter schnapps and playing 13 Dead End Drive.

 I love Dan to death and I do not fault him for having me drink when I did, it isn't like it stunted my growth or anything considering I can see the top of his head when I stand behind him and he is 6'2".(Brain seems to work okay too)


I don't know that I drank much after that until I was about 16 when once again Dan was around for my Grandparents 50th anniversary in Bermuda. That is a whole other story that maybe I will get into at a later time. This I feel is a good intro into the name of this post "studio 151". 

In my senior year I started hanging out with a good friend of mine Steve. We played fantasy football together and talked trash to each other at school but we started hanging out on the weekends in his mom's studio in his back yard. We use to fit about 12-15 people inside of what is no bigger than 100 square feet. I have had closets that were bigger than this room but we used to rage in it quite often. I have a video here of myself, younger of course taking a 6 shooter (six shots) of Bicardi 151 inside the studio. 

Kind of like I said before when talking about beer, things have changed. I still love alcohol, many different types of it, but I tend to drink much better alcohol these days and I enjoy messing around making mix drinks at home. The new craze of infusing alcohols is something I am beginning to look into (once I am out of school and have the money for it).

What we have here is Portland's own New Deal Vodka, that I took some chocolate wine and mixed with it the vodka and a couple of spices to put into the Martini glasses. Instead of olives I put two vanilla Tootsie Rolls onto a martini spear and we had our selves a cozy holiday cocktail as an aperitif. 

Mixed drinks also pair quite nicely with a dinner. Why do I bring all of this up do you ask; talking about food, beer, alcohol, and (wine in the future)? Well because the hole point of my blog is to show my background in food and beverage to prove that I know what I am doing when it comes to them. My goal through this blog is to gain enough followers and enough interest to start my own Underground Super Club in the Phoenix area when I move there after I finish in Culinary School.

What is an Underground Supper Club you ask? Well stay tuned to my next blog and I will tell you all about them.