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Stirring things up with Home Speakeasy
There's a new booze blog in town: Home Speakeasy is Jon Kostesich and girlfriend Jen Killius' way of chronicling their amateur adventures in the world of craft cocktailery.
Stirring things up with Home Speakeasy
There’s a new booze blog in town: Home Speakeasy is Jon Kostesich and girlfriend Jen Killius' way of chronicling their amateur adventures in the world of craft cocktailery.
Both Kostesich and Killius were big spirits fans long prior to launching the blog: Kostesich spent his time drinking whiskey at Southwark (701 S. Fourth St.), his favorite neighborhood haunt, while Killius explored Columbus, Ohio, where she was living at the time. During their travels they discovered quite a few great cocktail bars, but all those $15 drinks soon began taking their financial toll. So the two started buying their own bottles and experimenting with their own original cocktail recipes.
The blog started as a way for the two to keep track of their creations, but friends became interested so they began posting more frequently. When Killius moved to Philly, she began taking better photos, which led to the site you see now. It's still a place to track booze-related projects they’re working on — for example, Kostesich posts updates about a mobile bar bag he's building and upcoming cocktail parties they hope to throw. The couple hopes to inspire others to use the site as a resource, as well as inspiration for cocktail fans to craft their own creations.
Kostesich's favorite post is The Sun Also Rises, while Killius' favorite (and most challenging, photographically) is the trio of watermelon drinks they created for National Watermelon Day.
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