Brewing Up Cocktails featuring Oakshire @ Spints Alehouse

Brewing up Cocktails teams up with Oakshire Brewing out of Eugene, OR and Brewmaster Matt Van Wyk to showcase traditional ‘Flip’ cocktails on Easter Sunday. Flips are a class of mixed drinks that use raw eggs. According to Wikipedia:

The first bar guide to feature a flip (and to add eggs to the list of ingredients) was Jerry Thomas‘s 1862 How to Mix Drinks; or, The Bon-Vivant’s Companion. In this work, Thomas declares that, “The essential in flips of all sorts is to produce the smoothness by repeated pouring back and forward between two vessels and beating up the eggs well in the first instance the sweetening and spices according to taste.”^[1]

Join us on Easter Sunday April 24th from 5-8pm for food specials, beer flip cocktails and Oakshire beer at the foodie, cocktail and beer favorite of east 28th avenue Spints Alehouse.

About Brewing up Cocktails
Founded by Ezra Johnson-Greenough, a brewer, writer, artist and event coordinator, Brewing Up Cocktails started as a one-time event for Oregon Craft Beer Month in July 2010 and has turned into something much larger. Johnson-Greenough asked hot local bartender/mixologist and writer Jacob Grier to collaborate with him in crafting some unique beer cocktails in the hope of proving that craft beers can be as good in mixed drinks as they are on their own. The venue they chose had to have great beer and an outstanding selection of fine spirits, and that is where partner Yetta Vorobik’s property, North Portland hotspot The Hop & Vine. In addition to a great location for events, Vorobik adds her creative spirit and an adventurous third palate to the mix.
the July 2010 event was met with great interest, but it was not until the partners decided to do a follow-up event in the fall that the critics and public started to catch on. Beervana described one of Brewing Up Cocktails’ signature drinks, the Hot Scotchy, as:

“The Greatest Beverage in the World“

Mix Magazine opined:

“Straight-ahead beer fan that I am, I have to agree that beer cocktails open up a brave new world.“

And Portland Monthly Magazine said:

“a merger of Portland’s craft beer and quality cocktail cultures could push the next evolution of our increasingly sophisticated drinking scene.“

And finally the Associated Press caught on, with a story carried internationally, including on ABC News.