Rum and cocktail writer/consultant. Author of the Rum Wonk Substack, and Modern Caribbean Rum, winner of the 2023 Spirited Award. Publisher at Wonk Press LLC
@DrinkBoy@philipduff Yep. Retail USPS and UPS rates are usurious. There’s a number of companies that get similar massive discounts from the carriers, including Pirateship and Shipstation. I use the latter when not using Shopify’s similarly discounted rates - up to 80+% for international.
@bluehostsupport My CocktailWonk . Com site has been “down” with a botched SSL config for at least 5 days after you changed it. Every tech support chat assures me it’s being worked on. Nothing is happening. Ridiculous.
Hey EU friends! our German retailer partner is ordering another pallet of all three of our books (Modern Caribbean Rum, Polynesiacs, and Minimalist Tiki).
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@SwankPad Eek! As a software guy, it’s been burned into me to periodically validate my backups. And my critical data gets backed up to my NAS, which is backed up to the cloud. And for good measure, I periodically backup the NAS to an external drive kept offsite.
Hey writer friends! Or friends of writers!
If you're putting a holiday gift guide, we have some suggestions. Our Wonk Press books - Modern Caribbean Rum, Polynesiacs, and Minimalist Tiki make for great holiday gift giving.
Link to Wonk Press site: https://t.co/RcQmsOrSXH
On International Rum Day, I want to share that rum changed the course of my life - I left a well-paying career to write and educate people about this amazing spirit. I worked on Modern Caribbean Rum for six years to share my passion with the worldwide rum community.
@cocktailvirgin OMG - Yes! All this! I get that professionals want to innovate. But if a recipe requires prepping a one-off ingredient more than 5 minutes in advance, odds are I’m not making it. I’ll spend hour making falernum, but I know I’ll use it in more than one recipe.