PeterMarsala.com is now live!

    I'm starting a bartending blog for my website petermarsala.com.  Weekly content updates, recipes, and more!  I have been a long time food and beverage enthusiast and am excited to share my passion with a broader audience.

    I learn many valuable lessons bartending for my favorite distillery Deacon Giles in Salem, Massachusetts, and many of these lessons have broader bartending applications.  

    Working for a distillery, I am challenged to build all of my cocktails from the ground up, building my own mixers and syrups and other modifiers from fresh ingredients and mother spirits.  I dabble with creating wine like concoctions using Deacon Giles distilled spirits and fun and interesting ingredients, like wine tannins, tartaric acid, and other non traditional modifiers.

    I have a passion for developing cocktails out of the box of sweet, sour, and boozy.  MSG being one of my favorite unusual ingredients to play around with.  Treating cocktails more like food, and playing with textural, savory, and nuanced aromatic components to bring new dimension to the classic cocktailing formula.

    Feel free to reach out with any questions, or visit The Speakeasy Lab at Deacon Giles Distillery, and try some of my cocktails in person!

    



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