Holiday Drinking Events
Tom Douglas offers lots of local micros plus food pairings for $35.
Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Mar 08, 2010 at 03:57PM
Patron saint of the boozies.
There are always a lot of bar offerings for St. Patty’s, but they can all seem to run together after awhile—Pogues cover band here, green beer there. Shamrocks everywhere.
So this year, let’s start things off with Tom Douglas’ Saint Patrick’s Day Beer Blast, to be held at Palace Ballroom on March 17 from 5 to 8pm. Entry is $35 per person, for this you can sample Irish ales from Snoqualmie, Big Al Brewing, Maritime Pacific, Elysian. Elliott Bay, Hales, Pike Brewing, and Georgetown Brewery. Douglas is fixing up some Irish snacks to pair with the brews, you know those will be good.
It’s funny. I’m not having the best day today, and the thought of going to this actually cheers me up. Tom Douglas is such a happymaker, have you noticed? He just knows how to make us happy. Order tickets by calling 206-448-2001.
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Valentine's Day
Meet the “cocktail psychic” or have a champagne cocktail.
Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Feb 01, 2010 at 11:00AM
Just two weeks out from the so-called Hallmark Holiday, it’s time to start thinking about what you’re going to do.
First, from the Valentine’s Day press release pile, a drinking event:
Kerry Colburn is the author of a book called Good Drinks for Bad Days who calls herself a “cocktail psychic.” (I spent this morning struggling through the first four stages of grief with that term before arriving at acceptance. Really she just means she can tell you what to drink in order to cheer up a bad day. Can she really do this? I don’t know.) Colburn is hosting a Valentine’s Day party—pardon me, Anti Valentine’s Day party—at the bar at the Pan Pacific on February 11. It begins at 6pm.
Whatever your feelings about V-Day, you can’t deny it’s a great excuse to drink a champagne cocktail, otherwise known as joy in a flute. The basic model is pretty easy to make at home: you put a sugar cube at the bottom of a glass, douse it with a dash of Angostura bitters (the Angostura shortage that had bartenders stockpiling should be over by now, last time I checked it was in stock at DeLaurenti), slowly pour champagne to the top, and garnish with a lemon twist.
But it’s kind of a drink that is more fun to imbibe while out at some place romantic where they will offer all sorts of flavor embellishments, places like Bricco della Regina Anna on Queen Anne, like Sambar and Hazlewood in Ballard, like Poppy on Capitol Hill, or like 35th Street Bistro in Fremont.
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