The Heron Social Club
The ‘burbs may be devoid of craft cocktail bars, but this doesn’t mean they’re lacking in craft cocktails. Instead, we’ve moved the drinks to the kitchens and the living rooms of a neighborhood cocktail club. We get together once a month to mix (and drink) cocktails, and each month has a different theme. A little bit of history and bar-tending education is thrown in with each drink, but mostly it’s about getting together and having fun.
Here you can find out when the next meeting is, what spirits we’ve tried, and what drinks we mixed on previous meetings.
The Next Meeting Is: ???
Hosted By: ???
The Theme Is: ???
Featuring: ???
Previous Meeting: Harvest Party, featuring the Carousel Punch and our Autumn Menu
(click the drink names for recipes)
Previous Evenings:
Cocktail Night I: Begin With Gin
Featured Spirits: Ransom Old Tom, Hendrick’s Gin, Plymouth Gin, Martini Sweet Vermouth, Noilly Prat Dry Vermouth, Regan’s Orange Bitters, Angostura Bitters
Featured Drinks: Martinez, Classic Martini, Fitzgerald
Cocktail Night II: Bourbon & Rye
Featured Spirits: Bulleit Rye, Bulleit Bourbon, Buffalo Trace Bourbon, Russell’s Rye, Martini Sweet Vermouth, Noilly Prat Dry Vermouth, Homemade Grenadine, Angostura Bitters
Featured Drinks: Scofflaw, Whiskey Sour, Manhattan
Cocktail Night III: Refreshing Rum Drinks
Featured Spirits: Cruzan Aged Light Rum, Banks 5-Island Rum, Homemade Spiced Rum, Royal Jamaican Rum, Pusser’s Rum
Featured Drinks: Daiquiri, Mojito, Painkiller
Cocktail Night IV: Holiday Spice
Featured Spirits: Laird’s Bonded Apple Brandy, Appleton Extra 12-Year Jamaican Rum, Bitter Truth Pimento Dram, Mount Gay Extra Old, Velvet Falernum, Angostura Bitters, Milagro Silver Tequila, Marie Brizard Créme de Cacao
Featured Drinks: Zoar Valley Punch, Corn n’ Oil, Frostbite
Cocktail Night V: Dark n’ Spicy
Featured Spirits: Gosling’s Black Seal Rum, Gosling’s Ginger Beer, Captain Morgan’s Original Spiced Rum, DeKuyper Orange Curaçao, Angostura Bitters, Fee Bros. Whiskey Bitters, Cruzan Black Strap Rum
Tasted Spirits: Smith & Cross Traditional Jamaican Rum, Rhum Brabancourt 8-year, El Dorado 15-year Demerara Rum
Featured Drinks: Dark n’ Stormy, Cable Car, Captain’s Blood
Cocktail Night VI: The Perfect Pair
Featured Spirits: Laird’s Bonded Apple Brandy, Plymouth Gin
Tasted Spirits: Laird’s Old Apple Brandy, Peychaud’s Bitters
Featured Drinks: Jack Rose, Pink Lady
Cocktail Night VII: Sazeracs for All!
Featured Spirits: Sazerac 6-year Rye, Camus V.S.O.P. Cognac, Leopold Bros. Absinthe Verte, Peychaud’s Bitters
Featured Drinks: Sazerac with Rye, Sazerac with Cognac
Cocktail Night VIII: A Night Out
Featured Drinks: The Cocktails of Double-Zero Napoletana in Sandy Springs, including the Blackberry Jaqueline, LPR, Neopolitan Sour, Sazerac, and the Barrel-Aged Negroni
Cocktail Night IX: Veintiséis de Mayo
Featured Spirits: José Cuervo Tradicional Silver, Patrón Citronge, Alma Tequila Añejo, Dekuyper Créme de Cassis, Gosling’s Ginger Beer
Featured Drinks: Margarita, El Diablo
Cocktail Night X: Harvest Party
Featured Drinks: Carousel Punch, Autumn Leaves, The Battery, Black Bart, Hauptmann Cocktail
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[...] On a slightly different tack, I’m an enormous fan of cheesy 60s lounge music. True, it’s not always on my playlist, but it’s one of those things that’s so bad it’s good. The best kind that doesn’t involve the Hammond B3 organ is, of course, Exotica. While you’re sipping those Zombies, be sure to give a Martin Denny or Les Baxter record a spin. Looking for more cheesy goodness? I thought so. Check out the Ultra-Lounge series to get your fill, but I have a couple other suggestions as well, namely “Something for Cat” and “It Had Better Be Tonight,” both by Henry Mancini. WRAS ATlanta, out of Georgia State University, used to broadcast a program called Martinis Con Queso that featured just about anything in this vein, but it no longer seems to exist, except for a few playlists lingering on in the blogosphere. I also love Hawaiian shirts: you may have noticed them as background fabrics in my various Tiki-related photos; they’ve also been making regular appearances at our monthly Cocktail Nights. [...]
MxMo LXIV: Tiki, and ZOMBIFICATION « Tempered Spirits said this on February 19, 2012 at 5:46 pm |