OK, I have to admit that before I got this press release, I didn't know who Zane Lamprey was or anything about the cable series
Drinking Made Easy on HDNet. Actually, I didn't know that there was a network called HDNet, because I have Comcast and therefore don't get that channel. But if you subscribe to DIRECTV, Dish Network, AT&T U-Verse or Charter Communications, you're in for a treat.
I got to view a screening copy, and I can promise that the show makes Nashville look like a really great place to get a drink. (Like I didn't know that already.) Host Zane Lamprey and his drinking buddy Steve McKenna travel the country visiting bars and sharing cocktail recipes from some of the nation's best mixologists. There's even a drinking game that viewers can play along with as they watch each episode, but it sounds a little dangerous to me.
Our fair city acquits itself very well in tonight's episode, which features some of my favorite bartenders. After a visit to Ole Smokey Mountain Moonshine Distillery (NOT IN NASHVILLE! Gatlinburg. As if!), Zane sets out to meet and drink with Nashville alcognoscenti: Lauren Todsen of Whiskey Kitchen, Neil McCormick of Yazoo, Nancy Golimbisky of 12 South Taproom, James Hensley of The Patterson House, City House's Stephanie Melidis and Ben Clemons of No. 308. Or as the boys over at Cream call it, a Thursday night.
Zane and Steve even find time along the way to skate a few laps with the Nashville Rollergirls and compete in one of the show's traditional wacky challenges.
