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Camper English

@alcademics.bsky.social

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Cocktail writer, author of The Ice Book (2023) and Doctors and Distillers (2022). Now also giving SF cocktail history tours. https://www.alcademics.com/alcademics-newsletter.html

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Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 2h

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A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

YouTube video by Rham Records

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Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 5h

tramps like Us? I only see one tramp here, and his name is BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 6h

no haven’t seen that one. so many interesting regional vermouths these days.

Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 6h

because it’s the blanc rather than dry, might add a drop of simple to it.

Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 7h

I had a drink with it at Stoa here in SF - a Martini with a couple dashes of Chartreuse Elixir Vegetal - pairs perfectly:
Hedge Maze
St. George Terroir Gin
Dolin Blanc Vermouth
Green Chartreuse

Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 7h

That’s some good stuff

Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 1d

Comstock Saloon said they had a run on rangoon last night

Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a crab crab crab crab rangoon world

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Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 1d

wait what? oh ok

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Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 2d

This book is up my alley and I really enjoyed the Kew Gardens tonic water book.

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Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll need to add that to cocktailsafe.org when i get time, thanks!

cocktailsafe.org

Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 4d

weekly training videos

Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 4d

theory: a bar offering “curated libations” will not have good drinks

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Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 4d

the cowboy in question

Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 4d

not to sound too San Francisco, but the disco cowboy who won this year’s Hunky Jesus posed on his mirror ball bison behind Steph Curry at the opening party of his reservations-only whiskey bar last night

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Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 4d

not sure why but I think Chicken Ranchero would make a good drag king name

Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 5d

People are saying that Camper English is a tummy hurts warrior

Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 6d

New October drink books:

alcademics.com/new-drink-bo...

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Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 9d

Pucker up baby, the new champion of the lemon stacking contest is here

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Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 11d

it me, i’m animals

Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 11d

on the plus side, maybe no Blue Angels in SF this year. go fly a kite instead of participating in military propaganda

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Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 12d

San Francisco, a city increasingly filled with cast-off Burning Man trash as public art.

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Mermaid Sculpture Unveiled Next to Ferry Building as Part of New 'Waterfront Art Walk'

Another piece of public art has come to the Embarcadero this week, with the official unveiling Tuesday of 'Coralee,' a larger-than-life-size mermaid made of metal and other materials, by artist Dana A...

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David Wondrich @davidwondrich.bsky.social · 12d

If you're in New York this evening, come join
@deankotz.bsky.social and me as we discuss graphic history and our new Comic Book History of the Cocktail with the great Michael Ruhlman at P & T Knitwear bookstore/café, 80 Orchard St, NYC. 6:30-8:00

www.eventbrite.com/e/david-wond...

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Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 13d

lol my exposé into the clear ice industry will be called

ICE: UNMASKED

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Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 16d

an under appreciated art form is giving funny names to zoom meetings. anyway i just scheduled a “Meetin’ in the Ladies’ Zoom”