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Drinking Events This Week: What You Need To Know

More tickets to Sorrento’s whiskey class, details on sake benefit for Japan, and so on.

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Fill ’er up. Plenty of drinking events on the agenda this week.

1. The rum dinner at Daniel’s Broiler scheduled for Tuesday, March 29 has been canceled. Seattle boozephiles will flock instead to meet cocktail legend Dale Degroff at Kathy Casey Studios in Ballard.

2. More tickets have been made available for the previously sold out whiskey conversation on Thursday, March 31 at the Sorrento. Get those here. Proceeds from this $25 talk on Japanese and Kentucky-ese whiskies will go to Doctors Without Borders and its relief efforts in Japan.

3. It’s Hop Scotch time. This annual bonanza of craft beers and booze flights happens April 1 and April 2 at Fremont Studios. I say this every year but buy your tickets in advance or get there early! Lines happen at Hopscotch. Remember too: the whole “beer me” thing has run its course. Please don’t ask the poor volunteers behind the taps to beer you. They are volunteering, after all.

4. In other drinking for Japan news, Saké Nomi’s benefit for earthquake and tsunami victims is officially set for Friday, April 1 at 6pm. Tickets are $40; that includes four appetizers from Umami Kushi and a bunch of sake tastings. The store will be showcasing sakes from the Tohoku region in Northeast Japan, site of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake on March 11.

Proceeds here will go to Peace Winds America, a Seattle-based organization working to help Japanese disaster victims. Call the store at 206-467-7253 to reserve your ticket.

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Tags: Whiskey, Drinking Events, Sake, Seattle Cocktail Scene, Japan Relief Efforts, Cocktail Luminaries in Town

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Benefit for Japan: Reps from Suntory and Maker’s Mark Talk Whiskey

Proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders.

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Kentucky or Kyoto? Learn your whiskys at the Sorrento’s upcoming class, a benefit for Doctors Without Borders.

“Japan and Kentucky, a Conversation, with Whiskey” is the next class in the Sorrento Hotel’s Drinking Lessons series, to be held in the hotel’s penthouse at 7pm on March 31.

The price is $25, buy tickets here.

Presiding over the gathering will be San Francisco bartender Neyah White, who is a brand ambassador for Suntory (Hibiki, Yamakazi), and Cody Rossen of Maker’s Mark. If you’ve ever been curious about Japanese whiskey—or how whiskey varies from region to region—here’s your chance to bone up while contributing to an urgent cause. And while drinking delicious, delicious whiskey.

Side note: A lot of industry folks are suggesting we invest in Japanese whiskeys and sakes as a way of stimulating the Japanese economy. If you want to contribute in this way, you can find Suntory whiskeys at state liquor stores or go by Sake Nomi, an excellently stocked Pioneer Square shop that regularly holds sake tastings and other educational events.

Side note to the side note: Sake Nomi is planning a benefit for tsunami victims, a tentative date of April 1 has been set. I’ll update with details when they are available.

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Tags: Tastings and Classes, Booze 101, Drink booze, do good, Whiskey, First Hill, Japan Relief Efforts

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