So, what are you doing on September 2nd? Would you like to be indulging in the finest cocktails, great food and those much-talked about grown-up floats The Gibson created this summer with the folks from Dolcezza?
Well, if you go to The Gibson's HAYMARKET RIOT SOCIAL-you can.
Tickets are $75 a pop (all you can eat, all you can drink, all you can...well, everything) but we have a pair to give away. Obviously, this is something you want.
To enter to win (we'll notify the winner by next Monday) come up with an ideal end of summer cocktail and a name for it. Not only will you get two tix but Jonathan Harris, Gibson's bar manager, promised they could use your idea as one of the drinks at the party.
Deal?
DEAL.
Go now.
Previously in Giveaway:
- 2/17: Movie Ticket Giveaway: WANDERLUST
- 2/17: Giveaway: "21 Jump Street" Preview Screening
- 2/13: Ticket Giveaway: The Black Lillies @ The Hamilton
- 2/9: Woolly Mammoth's "Civilization Smackdown" + a Giveaway
- 2/8: Ticket Giveaway: Cate Le Bon @ DC9
- 2/7: Movie Ticket Giveaway: TITANIC in 3D!
- 2/6: Ticket Giveaway: Yasmin Levy @ Strathmore
- 2/3: Movie Ticket Giveaway: The Vow
- 2/1: Ticket Giveaway: Theophilus London @ 9:30 Club
- 1/31: Super Early Ticket Giveaway: Mastodon @ Fillmore Silver Spring
God loves a cheerful giver.
Drink: Mt. Pleasant Paloma
Mix of Grapefruit Jarritos + Club soda (to prevent it from becoming too sweet)
Tequila
Fresh lime juice + a pinch of zest
For the float: Dolcezza's Avocado Honey Orange
Optional top: mini sombrero.
Glengarry GlenRoss
2 part Glenlivet single malt
1 part soda water
1 part Red Bull
neat with a lucky strike
Tricky Wicket
2 parts brandy or cognac
1 part lillet blanc
squeeze of fresh lime
Top off with sparkling grapefruit lemonade
Negroni Blanco
Build over ice in an old fashioned glass:
2 oz Cocchi Americano
1oz Hendricks Gin
1 dash lemon juice
Garnish with lemon twist
The Season Finale (aka "The SOOKEH!")
- 2 parts Campari
- 1 part Vodka
- 1 part tonic
- garnish with blood orange slice
name: The Summit
cucumber+sunflower petals+gin poured over a slab of glacier ice
a little sparkling water to cut
choice of jalapeno or watermelon sorbet from Dolcezza as float
serve it in a tall metal cup (like the one Gibson uses for mint juleps), or just drink it by the bucket
I WANT THESE TICKETS BAD.
The Rosecroft OTB
2 parts hibiscus tea
1 part sloe gin
1 part soda water
muddled kafir limes
cucumber slices
ice
garnish with lemon twist
Deep Six:
Collins Glass filled 2/3 high with ice cold beer /summer ale
carefully drop 1 shot glass filled with chilled absinthe
(simple and deadly)
Light Riot
heirloom tomato water
habanero-infused vodka
splash of soda
lemon garnish
An Italian Rod (ode to the greyhound and Negroni)
1 part Gin (preferably London)
1 part Grapefruit Juice
1 part Campari
Soda water to taste
- Chill a cocktail glass
Dry, of course, since it is the end of the season.
- Swirl dry vermouth around the glass and then empty
- In a mixer, combine 2.5oz vodka and .5 ounces wheat grass juice
- Shake with ice and strain in the cocktail glass
- A dash of orange bitters (optional)
- Garnish with lemon twist
Inspired to pay tribute to the summer by using the last of the summer gruits and having a hypothetical final lawn mowing. A fresh and natural taste that will probably be your last for another year.
Starry Night
Pomegranate Fresh Ginger Ale by Bruce Cost
whiskey
star anise
White Bomb:
Combine in a shaker with a little ice:
- 60 ml Polish Vodka
- 60 ml Cream
- A bit of chopped Honeycomb
- Pour into glass, add
- Fresh lavender float
Better Red Than Dead
2 oz. rye
3/4 oz. Campari
3/4 oz. orange juice
3 dashes mole bitters
lemon twist garnish
The Campari is for the bitterness of the struggle; the orange juice is for the sweetness of a fair wage; and the mole bitters is for so many of today's workers who have yet to receive one.
The Baker Street
Stir over ice:
Muddled basil
Gin
Splash of dry vermouth
1 ball of watermelon
Strain into a cocktail glass
Garnish is one ball of watermelon
a shot of powers irish whiskey
Dr. Lyle Evans
2 1/2 parts whiskey
3/4 parts gin
1 dash bitters
1/2 peach syrup
3/4 fresh lime juice
1 maraschino cherry
1 twist orange peel
Aguacate frambuesa:
Ripe avocado - about 1/4 or less of a whole avocado
Mint leaves
Raspberry Puree
Pineapple Juice
Simple Syrup
White Rum
Muddle mint and avocado with simple syrup. Add white rum, pineapple juice. Shake with ice. Strain into a chilled martini glass.
Drop a sinking float of raspberry puree in the center.
RE: Aguacate Frambuesa
The option also stands to serve over ice, no straining! Still with the sinking float of raspberry puree.
Passion of the Fizz
1 1/2 oz White Rum
3/4 oz Lemon Juice
1 oz Passionfruit Syrup
Shake above ingredients, strain into highball over crushed ice, top with seltzer water and paper umbrella for the hell of it.
"Potpourri"
1 oz apricot liqueur (I prefer Choya umeshu)
1/2 oz Cointreau
1/2 oz applejack
1/4 oz Campari
1/4 oz St. Germain
1/4 oz creme de cassis
1 dash Angostura bitters
1 dash rose water
* Stir until chilled. Serve in a classic cocktail glass (~3 oz).
* If it's blazing hot out, shake well and serve in a small tumbler instead.
Packs the flavor of a punch with the power of an all-liquor line-up.
"Potpourri"
1 oz apricot liqueur (I prefer Choya umeshu)
1/2 oz Cointreau
1/2 oz applejack
1/4 oz Campari
1/4 oz St. Germain
1/4 oz creme de cassis
1 dash Angostura bitters
1 dash rose water
* Stir until chilled. Serve in a classic cocktail glass (~3 oz).
* If it's blazing hot out, shake well and serve in a small tumbler instead.
Packs the flavor of a punch with the power of an all-liquor line-up. Easily constructed in large batches.
Lookin pretty good so far. What else ya'll got?!
1 1/2 oz White Rum
1/2 oz Chambord
Splash Sprite
Splash Sour mix
3 Lime wedges Squeezed
3 Lemon wedges Squeezed
Raspberry Puree
Dolcezza lime float
Shake over ice. Don't strain out limes/lemons. Serve over ice.
Pink Panther
2 oz Gin (Hendrick's or Blue Coat)
3/4 oz Opal Basil Syrup
1/2 oz of Fresh Lemon Juice
Topped with soda water
Garnish with sprig of opal basil
The Cool Hand Cuke--
1/4 cucumber muddled or pureed
2 oz. Hendrick's Gin
Juice of 1 lime
Agave nectar to taste
Mix all ingredients together and pour over ice into a highball glass. Top with soda water.
(can be strained if so preferred, but the cucumber is also can provide a nice texture)
Annie and "better red than dead" won. Congratulations!