GIRLY DRINKS Drink Pairings by Chapter
Ch. 1 - Pre-History - Mead
Ch. 2 - Cleopatra - Moscato
Ch. 3 - Hildegard von Bingen - IPA
Ch. 4 - Li Qingzhao - Cabernet Sauvignon
Ch. 5 - Mary Frith - Brown Ale
Ch. 6 - Catherine the Great - Imperial Russian Stout
Ch. 7 - Barbe-Nicole Clicquot - Champagne
Ch. 8 - Ada Coleman - Hanky Panky
(1 ½ oz gin, 1 ½ oz sweet vermouth, ½ oz Fernet - stir with ice and strain into a coupe)
Ch. 9 - Gertrude “Cleo” Lythgoe - Mary Pickford
(1 ½ oz rum, 1 ½ oz pineapple juice, 1 tsp grenadine, 6 drops maraschino liqueur - shake with ice and strain into a coupe)
Ch. 10 - Lucha Reyes - Lucha Reyes
(1 ½ oz tequila, ½ Ancho Reyes Verde, ½ simple syrup, ½ Aperol, ¾ lime juice - build in a tall glass with ice, stir and fill the rest with grapefruit seltzer
Ch. 11 - Sunny Sund - Planter’s Punch
(2 oz Jamaican rum, ¾ grenadine, ½ lime juice, 2 dashes Angostura bitters - combine all but bitters in a shaker with ice, strain into a Collins glass over ice, top with bitters)
[Don the Beachcomber recipe reimagined by Women Who Tiki founder Shannon Mustipher]
Ch. 12 - Bessie Williamson - Scotch Old Fashioned
(1 ½ oz Laphroaig, ½ simple syrup, 3 dashes chocolate bitters - stir and strain into a rocks glass with ice)
Ch. 13 - Joy Spence - Daiquiri
(2 oz Appleton Estate rum, 1 oz lime juice, ½ oz simple syrup, shake with ice, strain into a coupe, garnish with lime slice)
Ch. 14 - Julie Reiner - Blood Orange Cosmo
(1 ½ oz orange vodka, ½ Cointreau, ½ blood orange juice, ½ lime juice - shake with ice and strain into a coupe - garnish with blood orange wedge)
Ch. 15 - Apiwe Nxusani-Mawela - Sorghum Beer
(Redbridge is an easily available brand)
Epilogue - Harmony Moon Colangelo - The Hard Femme
(2 oz rye, 1 oz hibiscus simple syrup, ½ lime - build in a rocks glass over ice, fill the rest with ginger beer and stir, garnish with lime wheel) from A Year of Queer Cocktails