Tales of the Cocktail.

Tales of the cocktail... So many people have asked me what tales was like and what I learned. Its a moment that you have to experience for yourself. There is not concise way to explain tales to someone who has not been. I learned that I was not alone, that the cocktail community is an open one. That there are people like me in cities all over the world who could not shake their love of the bar. Surely many of them are in love with cocktails, but everyone of them loves the people that they serve. I have only spoken with a few people about what Tales actually meant to me. Coming home to Columbus from the most intense week of my life, I could not think about anything but leaving. I was suffering from mild depression, extreme exhaustion, and just a bit of a hangover. After planning my escape to any city outside of Ohio I started to try and figure out what had happened to me in the Cresant City. My mentor put it best, It was a religious experience. I instantly be came responsible for my future. So commence the study sessions. Barsmarts, Glazer University, soon the USBG master accredidation, possibly entering the masters of wine track. It has been 2 months since Tales, every couple weeks I feel like I know what really happened to me at tales. Until of course a couple weeks later when I come to a new realization of what actually happened. For now it is time to finally write a couple of overdue thank you notes. After that it is time to travel and see some of the hardest working bartenders in the world.