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David Wondrich

@davidwondrich.bsky.social

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Barroom historian. Author of Imbibe and Punch, Editor in Chief of the Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails. Brooklynite and part-time Triestino. Ars gratia mercedis.

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David Wondrich @davidwondrich.bsky.social · 7h

*Sparing hand.

David Wondrich @davidwondrich.bsky.social · 12h

I’m going with “criticality nice.”

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Jacob Grier @jacobgrier.bsky.social · 16h

Reading this post from a recently opened coffeeshop enclosed by surprisingly transparent plywood.

View from a coffeeshop with wall-length windows

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David Wondrich @davidwondrich.bsky.social · 15h

Go very, very light on the hops (we used them in NYDC’s “Chief Gowanus New Netherland Gin,” an attempt to make an early New Amsterdam style colonial genever. Allen Katz and I found that a soaring hand with the hops was best, but used thus they were a great addition.

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David Wondrich @davidwondrich.bsky.social · 15h

A good editor, who won’t let you get away with publishing a draft in place of an actual article, book, whatever, and a fact-checking department are the greatest luxuries a writer can have. (Besides pot and pots of money, obvs.)

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 15h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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David Wondrich @davidwondrich.bsky.social · 15h

An agent, too!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 15h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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David Wondrich @davidwondrich.bsky.social · 16h

I thought it was close. Keepin' up the tradition!

David Wondrich @davidwondrich.bsky.social · 16h

Quality Virginia rye, as was, 1858 (from the Alexandria Gazette, October 25th). Note the hops, an old Dutch ingredient that still sneaks into some bourbons through their yeast culture, where it's used as a preservative. (A little goes a long way)
Attn @scohar70.bsky.social, @ryewhisky.bsky.social

An ad for "single shot" copper-still rye, made in Warren County, VA "just beyond the summit of the Blue Ridge, "exclusively from rye, hops and barley-malt," with the utmost care.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23h

microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?

me: desktop

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David Wondrich @davidwondrich.bsky.social · 1d

We’re all gonna be picking strawberries, aren’t we.

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David Wondrich @davidwondrich.bsky.social · 1d

Truly very fine. I'm also very partial to this one, by the great Leo Cullum, from November, 1994:

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks to this article by @davidwondrich.bsky.social, I made a 50-50 Martini with Plymouth Navy Strength gin (and Noilly Prat dry vermouth if you want to know), and it might be my new favorite thing.

The Secrets to the Best Dry Martini You’ll Ever Have

Our legendary columnist reveals his recipe and tips for making this classic cocktail.

www.thedailybeast.com

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David Wondrich @davidwondrich.bsky.social · 2d

Rusty Nail with a splash of the Appleton is how I’d go. Fun.

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 6d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Sarah Becan @sarahbecan.bsky.social · 3d

I am home in Chicago now but I would like to share this excellent flier I found in Yerevan.

A weathered telephone poll flier that reads “stop using ChatGPT, grammar, tellper, if you don’t want to REGRESS”

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David Wondrich @davidwondrich.bsky.social · 5d

Sweet!

David Wondrich @davidwondrich.bsky.social · 5d

(Of course, I’d like to see Batavia arrack on that list.)

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David Wondrich @davidwondrich.bsky.social · 5d

A bold proposal, but even though I’d miss my G&Ts I’d welcome it.

Andrew Bohrer @andrewbohrer.bsky.social · 5d

Airplanes should only serve baijiu, genever, cachaça, mezcal, poitin, pisco, and vermouth.

“I’m a nervous flyer,” you say.

“Are you slivovitz nervous?” I ask.

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David Wondrich @davidwondrich.bsky.social · 5d

How very pleasant!

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Vlad the ImZähller @chris.zahller.me · 5d

Obverse and reverse of a WWII-era coin featuring the portrait of dictator Benito Mussolini.

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David Wondrich @davidwondrich.bsky.social · 6d

You will earn, if that’s even possible, even more of my respect and admiration.

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David Wondrich @davidwondrich.bsky.social · 6d

That is indeed a very good friend. I’ve never tasted the Continental/Philly distilled Rittenhouse. As a Repeal brand made by an industrial alcohol distillery, it kindles my curiosity.

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David Wondrich @davidwondrich.bsky.social · 6d

1954. "Henri--you begin to comprehend the train of British life." Right ho, what what!

"Bight andd Early" ad for Rose's lime juice extolling the virtues of the gin Gimlet as an eye-opener. British gent, French barman.

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David Wondrich @davidwondrich.bsky.social · 7d

Dickens’ Punch? Splendid!

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