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Sloshed School: lessons in cocktail history

Tuesday, November 22, 2011 from 7:30 PM to 11:00 PM (ET)

Turners Falls, MA

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Matthew Latkiewicz, cocktail columnist for Grub Street will be mixing cocktails and talking booze history at the Rendezvous next Tuesday, November 22 from 7:30 onward.  Please join, for you MIGHT LEARN SOMETHING.

The focus will be vermouth cocktails - of which the Martini and the Manhattan are two examples.  Vermouth cocktails came of age in the 1880s and 90s.  Cocktail drinkers and bartenders were looking for a way to soften the base spirit - your gins and whiskeys - without covering up the essential character like a punch or citrus based cocktail would.

OK BUT SO I will be talking about vermouth and mixing two early examples of the style: the [Martinez](http://www.cocktaildb.com/recipe_detail?id=3349) (a sibling to the Martini) and the [Saratoga](http://books.google.com/books?id=IV3s-NUYnfEC&lpg=PA192&vq=saratoga&dq=isbn%3A0399532870&pg=PA255#v=snippet&q=saratoga&f=false) (related to the Manhattan).  These are wonderful drinks which YOU WILL ENJOY.