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SWEP MA’s Cocktail History and Demonstration by Brian Hoefling

January 18, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Greater Boston has been a center of liquid innovation for three hundred years, whether as a hub of American rum production, the birthplace of the ice industry, or the stomping grounds of a slew of original cocktails for the 1840s to the present.

Local historian Brian D Hoefling, founder of the Herzog Cocktail School and author of three books on spirits and cocktails, will join SWEP-MA to give a lecture on the grand sweep of the city’s mixed-drink history. For those who’d like to follow along at home, he will also give a hands-on demonstration of two cocktails, the Ward Eight and the Periodista, which respectively defined Boston’s mixological zeitgeist at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

A shopping list and recipes will be provided for those who register and would like to follow along, as well as tools with reasonable substitution options.

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