Bittersweet: Amaros and Aperitifs
Schedule
Mon May 27 2024 at 12:00 pm to 02:00 pm
Location
2701 E. Indian School Road, Phoenix, AZ, United States, Arizona | Phoenix, AZ
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Bittersweet: Amaros and AperitifsUnderstanding Bitter Botanicals in Vermouth, Aperitifs, and Amaros
Date and time
Monday, May 27 · 12 - 2pm MST
Time: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Doors open at 11:50 AM. The seminar will begin promptly at 12:00 PM. The seminar will finish at approximately 1:30 PM with additional 30 minutes allocated for guests to mingle and ask questions.
With the purchase of your ticket you will recieve a copy of Camper’s book Doctors & Distillers.
Bittersweet vermouths, aperitivos, and amaros like Martini & Rossi, Campari, Cynar, Averna, Aperol, and Amaro Nonino are flavored with a wide range of botanicals, but nearly all of them have a backbone built from wormwood, quinine, gentian, and/or rhubarb root. In this class we’ll taste these four individual bitter components of bittersweet wines and spirits, plus several different and delicious examples of the category to train our palates to recognize them.
This tasting class for the bitter-curious will combine history and botany (all of these plants were used as medicine at one point) with some physiology of taste to explain why we don’t all experience bitterness to the same levels. We’ll also cover the way bitter and bittersweet liqueurs and fortified wines can be classified, including the categories of americanos, aperitif liqueurs, vermouths, rabarbaros, quinquinas, fernets, and more!
Your professor is Camper English of Alcademics.com. Camper is the author of Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails, in which he traced the historic use of bitter botanicals in spirits. Doctors and Distillers has been described as “every bit as entertaining as it is educational” (Scientific American), “best savored, not shot-gunned, with a drink in hand” (Science), and “a tirelessly researched book on the centuries-long relationship between medicine and booze” (New York Times).
Camper has been studying the craft cocktail renaissance in San Francisco and around the world for over fifteen years and has contributed to publications including the San Francisco Chronicle, Popular Science, Saveur, Whisky Advocate, and The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails. He is a dynamic speaker and educator who teaches cocktail history and hands-on classes like this one. His most recent work is The Ice Book: Cool Cubes, Clear Spheres, and Other Chill Cocktail Crafts.
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