Welcome to Quarantine Cocktail Club.

Some call it pregaming family dinner as a quarantine coping mechanism. I call it mixology.

Welcome to the first installment of Quarantine Cocktail Club, written by me, Anna Callahan. 

If this was a job interview and you asked me to describe my strengths, I might say: graphic design, writing, coding, starting things and never finishing them, walking dogs, arguing. Note that I have excluded one particular essential life skill: mixology. That’s right! In this regard, you and I are the same. You’re probably also a college student miserably quarantined in your family home. And you’re probably (hopefully) also interested in using this time to learn more about the art of the cocktail. Through researching and writing these newsletters, I aim to eventually add mixology to my list. And hopefully, from reading along, you’ll be able to do the same.

So what exactly qualifies me to write an informational newsletter on mixology? Is it the pretentiousness of the fonts arranged in this newsletter’s banner? A weird fixation with becoming an influencer? Extensive knowledge on this topic? Nay. It is precisely nothing other than an abundance of free time, a burning desire to start drinking at 5 pm, and very close proximity to an as-of-yet untapped wealth of mixology knowledge, otherwise known as my father.

Between stints as a reporter at Life and starting his own magazine called American Photographer, my dad was the Wines and Spirits editor at GQ Magazine. Although he’s a little rusty (it’s been 40 years, give or take), my dad has a lot of cocktail related intel he’s eager to share with me, along with some random but amusing stories from “back in the day” that might also sneak their way into some of these newsletters. Buckle in!

Here’s what to expect: one email per week consisting of straightforward recipes, cocktail and spirit history, relevant and irrelevant anecdotes, recurring segments like “How to Translate a Wine Menu into Real Person Language,” photographs by yours truly, and maybe even some surprises, all wrapped up in an aesthetically pleasing potpourri of pixels and delivered hot to your inbox in time for the weekend. 

Some call it pregaming family dinner as a quarantine coping mechanism. I call it mixology. 

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Cheers,

Anna