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Sept. 2: Ken Burns' Prohibition preview and USBG cocktails
Filmmaker Ken Burns, whose dense, infinitely detailed documentaries deal with patently American topics like baseball, jazz and war, is taking on one of our young country's most notorious courses with Prohibition, a three-part work that will debut on public television in early October.
Sept. 2: Ken Burns' Prohibition preview and USBG cocktails
Filmmaker Ken Burns, whose dense, infinitely detailed documentaries deal with patently American topics like baseball, jazz and war, is taking on one of our young country's most notorious courses with Prohibition, a three-part work that will debut on public television in early October (more info below). This Friday, Sept. 2, at 6:30 p.m. WHYY is hosting a free partial sneak preview of Burns' doc at the Great Plaza at Penns Landing (Chestnut and Columbus). The doc's co-director, Lynn Novick, will be in attendance.
Naturally, the event, part of WHYY's Connections Festival, will be appropriately wet.
Phoebe Esmon, top boozehound at Farmers' Cabinet and president of the Philly chapter of the United States Bartenders' Guild, tells Meal Ticket she and her USBG ilk will be pouring Philly Distilling-based thematic cocktails at both public and VIP bars. At the main watering station, look out for a timeless Tom Collins or an Income Tax Cocktail (Bluecoat gin, sweet and dry vermouths, OJ, Angostura bitters). In the ticketed VIP, open only to WHYY members, they'll pour tipples like classic 2-to-1 martinis, the Prince Farrington Cup (XXX Shine, maraschino liqueur, Pimm's, lime, ginger ale, Angostura bitters) and Izzy Einstein Punch (Bluecoat, Vieux Carré absinthe, maraschino liqueur, lemon, peach, green tea, soda). For the latter two originals, Esmon shares, the USBG adhered to ingredients and ratios cited in Prohibition-period cocktail manuals.
Via whyy.org:
Prohibition is a three-part, five-and-a-half-hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that tells the story of the rise, rule, and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the entire era it encompassed. The culmination of nearly a century of activism, Prohibition was intended to improve, even to ennoble, the lives of all Americans, to protect individuals, families, and society at large from the devastating effects of alcohol abuse. But the enshrining of a faith-driven moral code in the Constitution paradoxically caused millions of Americans to rethink their definition of morality. Thugs became celebrities, responsible authority was rendered impotent. Social mores in place for a century were obliterated. Especially among the young, and most especially among young women, liquor consumption rocketed, propelling the rest of the culture with it.
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