Podcast appearances and mentions of brendan dorr

As the omicron variant threatens more pandemic restrictions, we Pass the Mic to Dutch Courage co-owner and Baltimore Bartenders' Guild president Brendan Dorr. He talks with Ashley Mac, from HEARD, a mental-health resource for restaurant and bar staff, Ezra Allen, co-founder of  Cane Collective, and Lara Sumerson co-owner of The Back Yard Restaurant and Mulberry's Bar, about how the industry has managed … and what they're concerned for in the future: Here's Lara: “My only fear is that some people might not survive another hit but I do believe that we have proven that we will support each other through it and we will support our communities as safely as we can.”  Plus their holiday beverage offerings--spirited and spirit-free! Links: Baltimore Bartenders' Guild, Dutch Courage, CAnE Collective, The Back Yard Restaurant,Mulberry's Bar, Nihao, HEARD, Baltimore Restaurant Relief Group. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Baltimore is for Gin, Baltimore is for Business. Rob Lee interviews Brendan Dorr and Eric Fooy owners of Dutch Courage Gin Bar.   Dutch Courage is a gin-centric cocktail bar in the Old Goucher neighborhood of Baltimore.  Gin-centric cocktail bar with a wide variety of cocktails and a full selection of spirits. Local beers and adventuresome wines are also available, along with delectable food.   The bar opened in late 2019 and has pivoted into a bottle shop due to COVID-19. During the interview we learn about Brendan and Eric's beginnings and their approach to being a new business in Baltimore.   Listen to an earlier episode where Rob Lee interviews Chris Amendola of Foraged Eatery Check out their social media for the latest cocktail specials and much more. Dutch Courage Image source: Baltimore Sun

Baltimore is for Gin, Baltimore is for Business. Rob Lee interviews Brendan Dorr and Eric Fooy owners of Dutch Courage Gin Bar.   Dutch Courage is a gin-centric cocktail bar in the Old Goucher neighborhood of Baltimore.  Gin-centric cocktail bar with a wide variety of cocktails and a full selection of spirits. Local beers and adventuresome wines are also available, along with delectable food.   The bar opened in late 2019 and has pivoted into a bottle shop due to COVID-19. During the interview we learn about Brendan and Eric's beginnings and their approach to being a new business in Baltimore.   Listen to an earlier episode where Rob Lee interviews Chris Amendola of Foraged Eatery Check out their social media for the latest cocktail specials and much more. Dutch Courage Image source: Baltimore Sun

Dutch Courage owners Brendan Dorr and Eric Fooy discuss opening their dream gin bar just a few short months ago, what the rollercoaster of emotions has been like since, how they've turned a cocktail bar into a carryout bottle shop, and how to best support your local service industry members during the coronavirus pandemic. Plus, they reveal some of their more interesting quarantine hobbies, mix up a Jefferson Sour, and show off their to-go gin Old Fashioned. For a list of ways you can help support the service industry(and a ton of resources if you are a bartender), visit the list Brendan and the Baltimore Bartenders Guild put together: http://bit.ly/bmorebartenders

Half of Maryland jobs are in small businesses--most now shut down in the pandemic, like the rest of the economy. We talk with Maryland Department of Commerce Secretary Kelly Schulz to hear about loans and grants available to business owners. Plus we check in with Ken Skrzesz, executive director of the Maryland State Arts Commission and Brendan Dorr, president of the Baltimore Bartenders Guild to hear how arts organizations and bartenders coping amidst the closures. Visit this link for the Maryland Business Express assistance. To visit the Virtual Tip Jar where you can support Baltimore area bartenders, visit this link and for the Baltimore Area Restaurant Industry Relief Group, visit this link. For a list of online performances, visit this link.

Before you shop for the makings of a Thanksgiving feast, we offer some tips from three experts who've been guests on Roughly Speaking:For the before-dinner cocktails he described in Episode 287, Baltimore bartender Brendan Dorr tells what you need for the well-stocked home bar -- not the booze, but the bitters to finish them and the appropriate glasses in which to serve them.Confused about what wine to serve with Thanksgiving dinner? Kevin Atticks, executive director of the Maryland Wineries Association, has a simple suggestion. When he was on the show last year, Attticks led us on a tour of all 70 Maryland wineries.Want to try at least one new dish? John Shields of Gertrude's restaurant and author of The New Chesapeake Kitchen, suggests oyster dressing, cornbread stuffing, maple-glazed sweet potatoes, apple-chestnut stuffing, corn pudding and black walnut pie. All of John's recipes were previously published by the Bay Weekly.Links:https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/dan-rodricks-blog/bs-roughly-speaking-aperitifs-20170811-htmlstory.htmlhttps://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/dan-rodricks-blog/bs-roughly-speaking-maryland-wineries-20171121-htmlstory.htmlhttp://www.bayweekly.com/articles/cooking/article/chesapeake-thanksgivinghttps://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/new-chesapeake-kitchenhttp://bayweekly.com/articles/cooking/article/chesapeake-thanksgiving

At the B----O American Brasserie in Baltimore, bartender and cocktail historian Brendan Dorr pulls out bottles of rum for a world-class tutorial and taste test.Rum has many uses in refreshing cocktails, but, as Dan discovers, some of the aged brands are best sipped neat.Also on this show, Brendan Dorr talks about — and offers us a taste of — the South American cousin of rum, cachau231ua, the basis of Brazil's national drink, the Caipirinha.

After a week of more bad news for the nation — horrible violence in a Florida high school, failure in Washington to resolve the political stalemate over immigration — Dan shares some thoughts about the state of the union, and speaks with two guests:5:11: Leyla Moushabeck, editor of ----The Immigrant Cookbook,---- which is chock full of recipes from people who emigrated to the U.S. and brought great food traditions with them.15:13: Brendan Dorr, bartender at the B----O American Brasserie, who offers the secret recipe for a better Bloody Mary.Links:http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/ct-nikolas-cruz-florida-school-shooting-suspect-20180215-story.htmlhttp://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-immigration-plan-20180215-story.htmlhttp://www.interlinkbooks.com/product_info.php?products_id=3472

4:55: Want to skip the turkey and roast a Christmas goose instead? Longtime Baltimore restaurateur John Shields tells us how it's done — with some assistance from the city's newest restaurateur, the British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay. Dan meets Shields in the kitchen of his restaurant, Gertrude's in the Baltimore Museum of Art, while drawing advice from one of Ramsay's instructional videos. Ramsay recently opened a restaurant in the Horseshoe Live Casino in Baltimore. Both chefs agree: ----Goose fat is gold.----18:00: Brendan Dorr, president of the Baltimore Bartenders Guild, provides a guide to the well-equipped home bar — a selection of glasses, utensils and bottled aromatics every mixologist should have on hand when guests arrive for a holiday gathering. Dan interviewed Dorr at his workplace, the B----O American Brasserie in downtown Baltimore.Links:http://www.johnshields.com/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88MHrk0qA1chttp://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/dining/baltimore-diner-blog/bs-fo-gordon-ramsay-steak-20171129-story.htmlhttp://www.bmorebarguild.com/http://www.bandorestaurant.com/

1:25: Book critic Paula Gallagher recommends a new title about a famous artist and a renowned art dealer, "Vincent and Theo," a biography by Deborah Heiligman based on more than 650 letters between the Van Gogh brothers.5:53: Baltimore bartender Brendan Dorr makes before-dinner cocktails every evening at the B----O American Brasserie in Baltimore. In this episode of the show, he offers his favorite uses for Campari, Aperol, Kina and Pimm's — drinks that make fine aperitifs to stimulate the appetite. Warning: In-studio taste test.Links:https://us.macmillan.com/vincentandtheo/deborahheiligman/9780805093391

2:45: Paula Gallagher, Roughly Speaking book critic, has read and recommends Roxane Gay's much-anticipated memoir, "Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body."7:01: Barrooms offered special drinks — Russian vodka and “impeachmint” cocktails — for every Trump tweet during fired FBI Director James Comey's televised testimony to Congress on Thursday. But bartenders did not have to deliver on the offer. Trump showed remarkable restraint — until Friday morning, when he accused Comey of "false statements and lies," and claimed "complete vindication." After another week of Trumpian drama and anxiety, it's time again for Happy Hour on the Roughly Speaking podcast with Baltimore bartender Brendan Dorr. This time, Dan's smarter brothers, Ed and Joe, join the conversation to talk about their favorite mixed drinks — the Negroni, the Old Fashioned, the Hemingway Daiquiri — and Brendan's brother, Aaron, shares a favorite cocktail, the Gin-Gin Mule. Brendan Dorr is president of the Baltimore Bartenders Guild and tends bar at the B----O American Brasserie.Links:https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062362599/hungerhttp://www.liquor.com/recipes/negroni/#gs.ofFHI20http://allrecipes.com/recipe/162397/classic-old-fashioned/https://www.thespruce.com/hemingway-daiquiri-recipe-760527http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/gin-gin-mule-232358http://www.bandorestaurant.com/

Paula Gallagher, Baltimore County librarian and Roughly Speaking book critic, recommends a dystopian novel from the eco-fiction shelf called "Borne," by Jeff Vandemeer.Baltimore bartenders Brendan Dorr and Amie Ward talk about Amari, the branch of herbal, bitter-sweet liqueurs produced in Italy, sipped as digestives and now being offered in some mixed drinks. Ward and Dorr join Dan for a taste test of Meletti Amaro, Rabarbaro Zucco, Fernet-Branca and Fernet-Valet, a Mexican liqueur. Be listening for Amie and Brendan’s cocktail recipe for the Italian Mule. Amie Ward tells her life story to Quinn Kelley on a recent episode of Female Trouble.Links:http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-borne-vandermeer-20170413-story.htmlhttp://www.meletti.it/UK/products_amaromeletti.htmlhttp://www.zuccarabarbaro.com/?age-verified=d69ec69409http://www.liquor.com/brands/fernet-branca/#gs.JfnUJcwhttp://www.baltimoresun.com/features/female-trouble/bs-female-trouble-amie-ward-20170424-htmlstory.html

1:43: Paula Gallagher, Baltimore County librarian and Roughly Speaking book critic, offers a list of non-fiction titles -- from American history to celebrity memoir to cookbooks -- that could make good gifts for friends or relatives.26:43: Food nerd Henry Hong and restaurateur and cookbook author John Shields have some professional advice on making great soups, including savory Asian concoctions involving noodles.47:31: Baltimore bartender Brendan Dorr of the B----O American Brasserie offers suggestions for cocktails that call for brandy, as well as some holiday drinks and punches, including The Tom and Jerry.Links:http://www.bcpl.info/category/between-the-covers-blogger/paula-ghttp://foodnerd.org/2011/03/03/henrys-well-marcella-hazans-minestrone/http://www.johnshields.com/http://www.bandorestaurant.com/http://www.esquire.com/food-drink/drinks/recipes/a3819/tom-and-jerry-drink-recipe/

Brendan Dorr, who tends bar at the B----O American Brasserie and serves as president of the Baltimore Bartenders Guild, showed up at The Baltimore Sun with five brands of rye for a tasting. On today's show: The results of that memorable recording session — plus the recipe for Brendan’s featured cocktail of the month, The Scofflaw.

1:24: Baltimore City has been asked to finance more than half-a-billion dollars in infrastructure improvements for Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank’s Port Covington project, and that proposal has generated a lot of news this week. Luke Broadwater of the Baltimore Sun staff joins us for this update.15:39: Brendan Dorr, president of the Baltimore bartenders guild and bartender at the B----O American Brasserie, shares thoughts about new rye whiskies that are being distilled, including Baltimore’s Sagamore Rye. Brendan offers a cocktail recipe, too — for The Diamondback.33:11: John Shields of Gertrude’s restaurant in the Baltimore Museum of Art shares some recipes for finger food, the appetizers you can make and serve if you’re having a happy hour at home. John draws his ideas from the late James Beard and from a 2007 article about appetizers by Mark Bittman in The New York Times.48:42: Film critic Christopher Llewellyn Reed reviews “Sully," the new Clint Eastwood film starring Tom Hanks as Sully Sullenberger, the pilot who successfully executed an emergency water landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River off Manhattan in 2009.Links:http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/politics/bs-md-ci-port-covington-deal-20160908-story.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/dining/19mini.html?_r=0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549

1:40: Paula Gallagher, Baltimore County librarian and Roughly Speaking book critic, praises "Perfect Little World," a new novel from Kevin Wilson, best-selling author of "The Family Fang." If you liked the early works of John Irving, says Paula, you’ll like the characters in this new work by Wilson. With today’s podcast, Paula begins a series of weekly book recommendations.5:09: Lane Harlan, creator of Bar Clavel, the Mexican-inspired bar and restaurant in Remington, describes her establishment’s widely-hailed margarita and provides tequila drinkers with a primer on the world of mezcal. Joining us for some “mezcal enlightenment” is bartender Brendan Dorr of the B----0 American Brasserie. Hear Lane’s earlier interview on Quinn Kelley’s Female Trouble podcast.Links:https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062450326/perfect-little-worldhttp://www.barclavel.com/http://www.bandorestaurant.com/menus/food-drink.htmhttp://www.baltimoresun.com/features/female-trouble/bal-female-trouble-lane-harlan-20160712-story.html

3:22: Presidential historian Richard Striner says the 2016 election could be a catastrophe for the nation and the Republican Party or a breakthrough for progressive politics. He talks about the course of the GOP over the last century and the rise of Donald J. Trump. Steiner is professor of history at Washington College and the author of several books, including "Father Abraham: Lincoln's Relentless Struggle to End Slavery." and, more recently, "Woodrow Wilson and World War I."26:39: Amie Parnes, senior White House correspondent for The Hill and co-author of a book about Hillary Clinton, assesses the damage done to the presumptive Democratic nominee’s presidential aspirations by the FBI director’s recent report on her use of a private email server. Parnes and Jonathan Allen of Bloomberg News are co-authors of"HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton."45:14: Henry Hong of the Thames Street Oyster House and John Shields of Gertrude’s restaurant talk to Dan about his evolving recipe for a better meatloaf, one stuffed with eggs, sausage and cheese. You can find photos and notes about Dan’s experiments — and recipes from Henry and John — on Dan's Facebook page.1:02:42: Brendan Dorr, bartender at the B----O American Brasserie and president of the Baltimore Bartenders Guild, offers recipes for fruit-based summer cocktails, including banana daiquiris, peach mint juleps and a classic called the Clover Club.Links:https://www.washcoll.edu/live/profiles/1790-richard-strinerhttp://thehill.com/author/amie-parneshttp://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/227921/hrc-by-jonathan-allen-and-amie-parnes/9780804136778/http://www.thamesstreetoysterhouse.com/http://www.gertrudesbaltimore.com/https://www.facebook.com/dan.rodricks/http://www.monaco-baltimore.com/inner-harbor-baltimore-restaurants/http://www.bmorebarguild.com/

2:39: Baltimore Sun media critic David Zurawik discusses two things — TV coverage of the leading presidential candidates, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton, and an Investigation Discovery special on the Adnan Syed murder case.35:18: Film critics Linda DeLibero and Christopher Reed reviews six films from the current cinema — "Weiner," "Me Before You, "Lobster," Nice Guys," "Bigger Splash," and "X-Men: Apocalypse" — and talk about what's ahead for the summer at the movies.1:09:04: Bartender Brendan Dorr gives a tutorial on gin and recommends some fine summer cocktails, including the French 75 (http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1014443-french-75), which also uses Champagne.

2:37: We start the show with our weekly visit with Baltimore Sun media critic David Zurawik. NBC did something the other night that got stuck in David’s craw, but that does’t keep him from talking about it. The network’s nightly news program moved, anchor Lester Holt and all, to Trump Tower. Holt interviewed presumptive GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump and anchored the rest of the broadcast from the building’s gold-and-marble lobby. Says David Z: Bad idea.19:51: Today is actor George Clooney's 55th birthday. He’s in another film due for release this month: Money Monster, co-starring Julia Roberts and directed by Jodie Foster. Film critics Linda DeLibero and Christopher Llewellyn Reed discuss Clooney’s career, from his start on television through his turn to award-winning acting and directing.It’s Kentucky Derby weekend, the start of the Triple Crown races, and we have two features related to the season:50:17: Ross Peddicord, director of the Maryland Horse Industry Board, helps you get in touch with your inner horse. There are many places to do that across the state -- if you want to ride a horse, brush a horse, or just muck out a stall. Ross also has potentially good news related to the arabbers of Baltimore and an effort to preserve the horse-drawn produce wagons of the inner-city. We’ll also tell you about a one-night equine movie festival coming up at The Senator Theatre in Baltimore, featuring a film that the whole horse world has been talking about, "Harry and Snowman."1:06:48: Brendan Dorr, bartender at the B----O American Brasserie, will tell us how to make a classic Kentucky-style mint julep with love. We’ll also hear about the official drinks of the other Triple Crown races, including the Belmont Breeze. Plus, Brendan assesses the first batch of rye whiskey from the new distillery of Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank, arriving in stores just in time for the Preakness and the making of Black-Eyed Susans.

Mix up a new classic American cocktail at home with this step-by-step guide to the Line State Punch, Brendan Dorr's original cocktail creation for Smithsonian's Raise a Glass to History.