Nothing gold can stay, kiddos: Adam Bernbach, General Manager and cocktail wunderkind of Bar Pilar is leaving the Hemingway haunt in May for the bright, sunny shores of…Plymouth Gin.

Per Fritz and his alliterative Going Out Gurus:

“”For the next couple months, I’m probably going to be doing one-off and weekly events, focusing on the beverages,” he says. Though he’s not offering too many details yet, expect some guerilla parties like “Billy’s Parents’ House,” the house party-themed throwdown that Bernbach and Bourbon bartender Owen Thomson organized at the Warehouse Theater last month. Bernbach will also be doing some seminars and working for Plymouth Gin.”

Bernbach is perhaps best known for his regular Cocktail Sessions every Tuesday, where he showed us all that funny names and odd ingredients, when thrown together with wild abandon, can combine into a sexy, frothy mess that will be the best $11 you’ve ever spent. And then quickly turns into the best $100 you ever spent.

But what, pray tell, will he do to earn his keep in our fair city? Who the hell knows: “What I’m going to be doing [over the next few months] is going to be more intense” than the Cocktail Sessions, Bernbach says. “Ideally I’d like to have more people involved. I want to explore the world of cocktails and the world of taste, things that I’m really into. … . It’s not molecular mixology so much, but it will be more elemental — using raw sugar cane as a base working with rhum agricole,” the rum from the French West Indies made from fermented sugar cane. And, allegedly, something with Plymouth Gin. Perhaps deconstructing Plymouth Gin, reducing it into its most elemental form of herbs and botanicals? Which will be then set on fire with a persimmon on top? Guess we’ll just have to find out!

No worries, he won’t be a stranger for long. “In time, Bernbach says, he’ll probably be back behind a bar in D.C., but he’s “not 100 percent sure at this point” where that might be or what it might entail. “Ideally, I’d like to be managing but also focusing on cocktails.” (but…but….don’t you do that at Pilar?)

Show your support for the man and get drunk on things you can’t possibly pronounce at the Tuesday, May 19th send-off party in his honor. It will feature “a special extra-long list of cocktails from the last year of Cocktail Sessions — “10 of my personal favorites and some other people’s personal favorites” — including the Darkside (Plymouth gin, the herbal Marcarini Chinato dessert wine, Peychaud’s Bitters and house-spiced cherries). ”

Mark your calendars!