First, we want to welcome all the the hundreds of new subscribers who have joined in the last week. There are a lot of you and we hope you like The Mix.
We also want to thank all the past subscribers to The Mix. Two and a half years in, we continue to love what we are doing and we appreciate you.
So far this year, we have filed the New York Bar 50, a comprehensive of New York’s most influential cocktail bars; filed reports from Baltimore, Providence, Boston and Athens; interviewed authors Dwight Garner, Nicola Nice, Dan Saltzstein and Amy Stewart; got into the nitty gritty of the Drink of Summer phenomenon and how many olives are the right number in a Martini; not to mention launching the First Annual Mix Hot Dog Week—which was one of the best weeks ever. And we convened for our first annual Bar Regular Cocktail Hour at Altar, with Phil Ward bartending.
The summer starts today, we’ve got a lot coming up, including new installments in the popular series “In Search of…” and “Summer in a Day.” But if you would like to see something new on The Mix tell us here:
We know this Bar Regular Housekeeping thing gets boring, so we bolded the important words to speed things up:
It’s been a couple of months since our last update and there are some new additions, so here it is—the new Bar Regular wall!
Thank you for supporting The Mix, you make what we do here possible.
As usual, if you don’t see your name on the wall and think it should be there, please let us know. (Remember: only Bar Regular subscribers—that is, Founding Subscribers who pay $150 a year—are featured on the wall. Annual or monthly subscribers are not.) I’ve emailed a few people at least two times and not heard back, so please check your spam! We need your names (we can’t always see what they are from your emails) and the address of where to send the book. Also, if you’re a returning Bar Regular and haven’t made your book choice, please let me know.
And, as always, many thanks again to The Mix’s designer, Mark Ward, for setting up the new virtual wall!
A reminder of what happens when you join the Bar Regular group:
In addition to your name proudly displayed on an engraved virtual brass plaque on the virtual Mix bar wall:
New Bar Regulars will get a copy of my new book, The Encyclopedia of Cocktails and renewing Bar Regulars can choose a signed copy of any book in my catalog. That includes The Old-Fashioned, A Proper Drink, 3-Ingredient Cocktails, The Martini Cocktail and Mezcal and Tequila Cocktails. Or, you can have an additional signed copy of Modern Classic Cocktails or The Encyclopedia of Cocktails, if you like. And you don’t have to wait for the release date. You can ask for your book as soon as you renew!
The Mix has also integrated a new 2024 feature called “Regular Recipes.” These will be cocktail recipes only accessible to Bar Regulars. The recipes will be for new, original cocktails drawn from the best bars in the world. In all or most cases, they will be appearing for the first time ever in The Mix. “Regular Recipes” will appear randomly, but at least 12 times a year. The recipes that have gone out so far have been pretty great!
But wait! There’s more!
We had a Bar Regular get together in New York City in May of 2024, and there will be another live Bar Regular get together in the coming months. It’s a great chance to put faces to names and talk about cocktails and other things.
Thank you again, for joining us!
-Robert and Mary Kate
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