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An Antidote To The Multitude of Problems You Face
LIMITED TIME 99 Cent E-book Offer This PROACTIVE Problem Solving Newsletter and the book/training by the same name are my answer to the calls for help I’m hearing from team members, managers and leaders. The stresses each group is feeling are different. What...
Exploring CES to Stimulus Mine for Disruptive Ideas
Doug is traveling this week to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to stimulus mine for disruptive “idea starters”. What he will not be looking for is WHAT companies are offering. Rather, he will be focused on the WHY & HOW of exhibitor...
Things worth the writing
If you wou’d not be forgottenAs soon as you are dead and rotten,Either write things worth reading,or do things worth the writing.Ben Franklin After a year of adventures - I have some things that I hope you find "worth the writing" This week my mind is on managing the...
Prince of Wales Cocktail
We are really proud to introduce our new Dexter Straight Bourbon. It’s the best bourbon we’ve ever made - named one of only 12 bourbons on the Ultimate Spirits list of the top 100 spirits. It’s named after Edmund Dexter one of the most famous...
Charles Dickens Smash Cocktail
We are really proud to introduce our new Dexter Straight Bourbon. It’s the best bourbon we’ve ever made - named one of only 12 bourbons on the Ultimate Spirits list of the Top 100 Spirits. It’s named after Edmund Dexter one of the most famous pre-prohibition whiskey...
My Favorite Craft Cocktails for Summer 2021
Here’s my three favorite cocktails for summer 2021. Each with a “Craft” twist. BOURBON SMASH our #1 Requested Cocktail Ingredients 1/2 oz of Simple Syrup5 to 8 Mint Leaves - depending on size of leaves1/4 of a large lemon cut into wedges or 1/2 a small lemon2 oz...
Here’s to the Crazy Ones
When my wife asked Brian McKenzie, co-founder of Finger Lakes Distilling,“Why did you start the distillery?” His answer was simple, “Because I LOVE whiskey!” To many his answer doesn’t make sense. There are a lot of things that people like - but that doesn’t cause...
Papa Hemingway Teaches Us How To Make WOW BOURBON
A visit to Ketchum, Idaho in Sun Valley, final resting place of writer Ernest Hemingway, sparked conversations at the Brain Brew Beach Bar. Papa as he was known - was a larger than life figure - writer - adventurer - drinker and a husband three times...
Be the Change
One morning recently as I sipped on a fine cup of our Brain Brew Coffee, I was flipping through music and clicked on the song, BE THE CHANGE, by Lennie Gallant from his album If We Had a Fire. Lennie’s lyrics capture my mindset these days… “Nothing can be done,...
The Romance of the Unusual
Hemingway’s quote spoke to me today. “Live the FULL LIFE of the mind, exhilarated by new IDEAS, intoxicated by the ROMANCE of the UNUSUAL.” I live my life intoxicated by the romance of the unusual. I believe I may well be genetically wired to reject the same old...