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A Famous Bartender Is Suggesting Cocktail Recipes for Folks Who Can’t Leave Home to Shop for Ingredients

Derek Brown, hero of a coronavirus-stricken city, tweets recipes tailored to what you have in your cupboard.

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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.

https://twitter.com/ideasimprove/status/1238147829555757058

Like this recipe for oat milk and vodka!

https://twitter.com/ideasimprove/status/1238165483083481088

And finally we know what do with gin (and nothing else).

https://twitter.com/ideasimprove/status/1238148936696725504

He has recipes for boutique bottles.

https://twitter.com/ideasimprove/status/1238163321574080514

 

And for people who have way too much hard seltzer.

https://twitter.com/ideasimprove/status/1238159247038390272

Drinks for people who haven’t gone shopping in awhile.

https://twitter.com/ideasimprove/status/1238160199678144513

And drinks for people who may never have visited a grocery store.

https://twitter.com/ideasimprove/status/1238157011549933568

And the ideas are still coming! We’re here for Brown’s #QuarantineCocktails.

 

 

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Anna Spiegel
Food Editor

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.