Camper English
@alcademics
Cocktail writer, author of The Ice Book (2023) and Doctors and Distillers (2022). Now also giving SF cocktail history tours and water tasting classes.
Yes I buy Pepsodent by the six-pack because it’s the only toothpaste with fluoride that doesn’t make me throw up, also I’m 95 years old.
You wouldn’t believe how good home-distilled carbonated strawberry water is. Possibly the best nonalcoholic beverage I’ve ever had. alcademics.com/make-distill...
Things got a little wacky at last week’s water tasting classes. alcademics.com/water-tastin...
I wrote about dirty versions of other drinks. www.alcoholprofessor.com/blog-posts/d...
Two seats left in this Tuesday’s water tasting class. 6pm, SF Financial District. alcademics.com/water-tastin...
Fee Brothers releasing meat and butter flavored “fat wash” cocktail flavoring. Didn’t see that one coning!
In last night’s class I popped open the Borsec. Turns out it is delicious and I’m going to have to go all the way back out to the avenues to resupply. Wasn’t expecting to develop a costly and cross-town water habit when I started doing this.
May 23, 2026 is the third birthday of The Ice Book. Thank you so much to everyone who has supported the book or picked up a copy, and especially to Allison Webber and Nan Allison for helping me manifest it.
Found this old blog post about one year’s travel. Times sure have changed!
one of the best pictures I’ve taken of an ice cube (from a few years ago), but one time someone on the internet got mad because you couldn’t actually drink this
Now the list is up to 25 drink books coming out this year. alcademics.com/2026-new-dri...