by Angela Prosper | Mar 29, 2023
SPRING shouts GIN in our book, so our first spring class is about GIN! What is gin? What are the classic gin cocktails? Was gin made in bathtubs during Prohibition? This gin-focused interactive class will answer these questions and more. Learn about the origin of gin...
by Angela Prosper | Jan 18, 2023
Our February class is about whiskey: the origins and the drinks, but also the rise of whiskey in America. Learn how whiskey led the push for westward expansion while Hogwash Whiskey Den’s master mixologist, Simon Moorby, guides you through how to make 3...
by Angela Prosper | Nov 27, 2022
Our holiday class features drinks inspired by the classic holiday movie; It’s a Wonderful Life. In the film, Clarence enters a bar with George Bailey, whom he just saved from drowning. George orders a double bourbon. Clarence, whose last visit to earth seems to...
by Angela Prosper | Oct 5, 2022
Learn about the original American-made spirit, fruit brandy. Apples grown in the colonies were not for pie but for drinking. And not just apples. Fruit brandies were made with apple and pear in the north and peach in the south. Early mixed drinks used this local...
by Angela Prosper | Sep 30, 2022
What is absinthe, and why the bad reputation? This class explores the story of the ingredient that Hemingway described as “that opaque, bitter, tongue-warming, brain-warming, idea-changing liquid alchemy.” In the late nineteenth century, absinthe enjoyed...
