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October clear ice vibes

11/2/2019

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Fall has come to new England. My other name for this is bourbon season! The color of the glass matches the color of the leaves. 
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September clear ice vibes

10/13/2019

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Hitting the clear ice as we roll into fall up here in New England. Keep living the clear ice life out there!
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Clear ice is taking over Hawaii

9/1/2019

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Here's another solid story about the process and passion around making and selling clear ice. Both Makers in the Hawaii directory are featured: 
On The Rock Hawaii Craft Ice Co.
https://www.ontherockhawaii.com/
720 Iwilei Rd.
Honolulu, Hawaii 96817
Ice Cubed Hawaii
https://icecubedhawaii.com/
98-374 Pono Street 
Aiea, Hawaii 96701
Creating Crystal Clear Ice for Drinks is Not as Simple as Just Freezing Water
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HERE’S HOW TWO NEW COMPANIES, ICE CUBED HAWAI‘I AND ON THE ROCK HAWAI‘I, WORK TO MAKE YOUR COCKTAILS EVEN COOLER.
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The story of clear ice at Lucky Day whiskey bar

9/1/2019

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A good story with good pictures about good whiskey and good ice in Buffalo, NY at the Lucky Day whiskey bar. Give it a read!
​Tim Stevens did everything he could think of to provide the perfect dram at Lucky Day Whiskey Bar.

He selected specific glasses to best showcase their liquid glories, hired skilled mixologists and curated a collection of 600-odd varieties.

Whether whiskey lovers are in the mood for throwbacks like Cutty Sark ($4 per 1-ounce pour) or esoterica like Balvenie Tun 1509 Batch 4 ($82), when they cross the threshold at 320 Pearl St., it’s their lucky day indeed.

With all that focused precision, though, there was still one variable left uncontrolled: the ice.
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An LG fridge... that makes clear ice.

9/1/2019

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Can you believe it? For $4,399 you can now get a fridge that makes clear ice balls. This is the future and we are living in it!
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New Maker: ice•ology

8/18/2019

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I've added a new @home clear ice crafting system to the maker directly. Click over there and check out the @home tab. The company is ice•ology by Dexas. They were nice enough to send me a sample set up to try out.
Tonight i unpacked everything and filled it with water. I'll report back after everything is frozen and inside a cocktail!

UPDATE: I got some clear ice out of the rig! Looks good, and the silicon molds make it so easy to take the ice out! This is a big differentiator from other rigs. I'm going to use this one at work and create a stock pile of clear ice for our weekly happy hours!
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Living the Clear Ice Life in July 2019

8/18/2019

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July was a pretty exciting month for my family, as we all had a reunion with cousins and brothers and sisters up in Alaska. We harvested clear ice right off the beach at Grewingk Glacier, and toasted some Alaskan Whiskey with the most unique clear ice you can imagine. Keep living the clear ice life out there!
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Article about the success of Mixology Ice

8/18/2019

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Mixology Ice is one of the vendors listed on the Makers page. There is a nice article about their business in the South Florida Sun Sentinel. Check it out.
If you’ve ever sipped an $18 bourbon rocks at a classy tavern in South Florida, chances are good those rocks came from Mixology Ice. At his chilly warehouse northwest of Miami International Airport, Leal and his partner, Fabian Alvarez, pump out massive blocks of clear ice every five days. These icemen start with tap water, which flows through a five-step filtration system that peels away impurities. Once filtered, a $5,000 freezer called a Clinebell chills the water into two 300-pound blocks. Leal says that ice is then painstaking carved into Collins rods, chiseled into two-inch cubes and molded into spheres...

...Local high-end bars swear by clear ice’s benefits. Premium liquor deserves premium ice that won’t melt fast, they say, and it doesn’t hurt business when patrons post their fancified drinks on Instagram.
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Clear Ice comes to Marketplace

8/18/2019

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I make it a point to listen to the Marketplace on NPR pretty much every morning. I subscribe to the podcast so I always catch it in the morning after it airs on NPR at 6:30 ET the night before. Funny enough, they had an entire segment about Clear Ice!
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Cocktail author Jim Meehan recalls working in a bar in Wisconsin in the 1990s. 

“Ice was just a utilitarian thing.” he said. “It was frozen water that was used to keep drinks cold.”

That frozen water was usually cloudy, full of impurities and air bubbles. Around the turn of the century, though, the craft cocktail renaissance began; bars threw out pre-made mixes and started using fresh juice and top-shelf spirits. And crystal clear ice started to appear in cocktails.

The first clear ice cubes were made from an ice sculpting machine, which freezes water in a way that pushes out impurities or air. Meehan was running a bar in New York at the time and he was skeptical.

“I believe the original costing on this ice was around 75c a cube, which is a pretty considerable cost per drink,” he said. The visual appeal, however, eventually won him over.

“It makes a dramatic difference in the drinks,” Meehan said. “One of the things I’ve always said to bartenders, and anyone who would really listen, is that we taste with our eyes first.”
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Living the clear ice life - June 2019

7/17/2019

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Here's a collection of what living the clear ice life in my world looks like. Do you collect your clear ice moments too??
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