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Self-quarantined and need a drink? Leading DC barman Derek Brown is here to help. The Columbia Room owner and spirits author took to Twitter on Thursday, offering to share cocktail recipe ideas if people Tweet ingredients at him—and things have gone viral. The results have been pretty entertaining—and sometimes very useful.
If anyone is stuck at home tonight and needs a cocktail recipe, tweet me your ingredients. I’ll tell you what to make.
— Derek Brown (@ideasimprove) March 12, 2020
Like this recipe for oat milk and vodka!
Flip: 1 1/2 oz Vodka, 3 oz. Oat Milk, 1/2 oz. shake hard as hell. Serve with grated nutmeg.
— Derek Brown (@ideasimprove) March 12, 2020
And finally we know what do with gin (and nothing else).
Add some bitters, shake, and you have the marvelous Pink Gin.
— Derek Brown (@ideasimprove) March 12, 2020
He has recipes for boutique bottles.
Chartreuse Swizzle all day:https://t.co/NB7p3P8Fxt
— Derek Brown (@ideasimprove) March 12, 2020
And for people who have way too much hard seltzer.
Tepache! https://t.co/XUN6UJeGm4
— Derek Brown (@ideasimprove) March 12, 2020
Drinks for people who haven’t gone shopping in awhile.
Bourbons flip. https://t.co/brQFR1ohLr
— Derek Brown (@ideasimprove) March 12, 2020
And drinks for people who may never have visited a grocery store.
Enjoy the olives, mix the rubbing alcohol with some boiled water, glycerin, and aloe vera. Sell the latter and buy some gin.
— Derek Brown (@ideasimprove) March 12, 2020
And the ideas are still coming! We’re here for Brown’s #QuarantineCocktails.
Anna Spiegel covers the dining and drinking scene in her native DC. Prior to joining Washingtonian in 2010, she attended the French Culinary Institute and Columbia University’s MFA program in New York, and held various cooking and writing positions in NYC and in St. John, US Virgin Islands.
