Drink of the Week: The Jamison For the PEN/Faulkner event we mentioned yesterday, along with a drink in honor of Faulkner himself we designed one for each of the two featured authors. Today’s drink is named after Leslie Jamison. Neither of us has read any of Jamison’s work, though a brief internet scan tells us we’re missing out. Since we’re sadly ignorant of the substance of her writing, we ran with the one...
Read MoreCroatia Week: On the Balcony We recently tended bar for a Harvard Kennedy School of Government alumni event held at the Croatian embassy. It was sort of a reunion of participants in Ronald Heifetz’s crazily popular class on Adaptive Leadership. We designed custom cocktails for the event, using Croatian liquor for the ingredients and Adaptive Leadership catchphrases for the names. Today, we give you On the Balcony. On the...
Read MoreCapitoline: DC’s only Vermouth + Drink of the Week: San Martin When we decided on the contestants in our vermouth tournament (cheap sweet bracket, cheap dry bracket, expensive dry bracket, expensive sweet bracket, championships), we disqualified American vermouths. We felt that they were a bit too newfangled for us to justify the steep price-somewhat upward of twice what we usually spend. So, we stuck to vermouths made in...
Read MoreSpirits Week: Gin Last week, we gave a brief overview of the three big categories of liquors, their distinctives, and the part they each play in cocktails. Over the course of this week, we’ll be going into more detail on one of those three categories: the base spirits. These are the highly alcoholic, basic building blocks of the liquor world. Spirits Week will be of most interest to those of you who like your drinks to have a...
Read MoreElection Drinks: Full Participation In some way, shape, or form we’ve been planning events for the past decade; the details, purpose, and types of the events have d r a s t i c a l l y varied but there is always a through-line of a) how do we make sure everyone feels welcome? b) how do we make sure everyone has a great time? c) how do we think through every logistical detail ahead of time so that party goes off without a hitch?...
Read MoreWhat We’ve Been Drinking: Drops of Jupiter Over the years we’ve developed some cocktail crushes, all the tweeny feelings of smittenness both for certain cocktails and for their makers. Our latest crush started when we noticed that so many of our social media friends were all posting and talking about this clever company. Hey, no, we like them more! Tea crafted for cocktails? Yes please. I mean, really, we wouldn’t...
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