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Alcademics Events
San Francisco
Cocktail Ice Diamond Carving Experience
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- Thursday May 28 @ 6pm
- Thursday June 4 @ 6pm
SF Cocktail and Bar History Walking Tour
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- Every Saturday @ 2:30pm: May 30, June 6, June 13, June 20, June 27, July 4, July 11, July 18
- Tuesdays during World Cup @ 2:45pm: June 16, June 23, June 30,
- Wednesday during World Cup @ 2:45pm: June 17, June 24, July 1
- Thursdays during World Cup @ 2:45pm: June 18, June 25, July 2
- Fridays during World Cup @ 10:45am, 2pm, 4:30 pm: June 12, June 19, June 26, July 3, July 10, July 17
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🧊 The Ice Book: Cool Cubes, Clear Spheres, and Other Chill Cocktail Crafts –an Amazon Top 100 Best Seller! Spirited Awards 2024 WINNER
💊 Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails – A Spirited Awards 2023 Finalist Shortlisted for the Andre Simon Award
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Camper English and Alcademics
AlcademicsTM is the website from Camper English, a cocktails and spirits writer, speaker, and educator who has contributed to publications including Popular Science, Saveur, Details, Whisky Advocate, the San Francisco Chronicle, Food & Wine, The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails, and many more. He compiled the iconic “50 things to drink in San Francisco before you die” list for 7×7 Magazine for more than a decade. His work has been cited in at least 30 books.
He is the author of Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails (2022) and The Ice Book: Cool Cubes, Clear Spheres, and Other Chill Cocktail Crafts (2023). The Ice Book won Best New Cocktail or Bartending Book at the 2024 Spirited Awards from the Tales of the Cocktail Foundation.
Camper is the pioneer of the “Directional Freezing” technique to make perfectly clear ice that is used around the world. Camper is a judge of the SF World Spirits Competition, a former World’s 50 Best Bars polling coordinator, a repeat honoree on the Bar World 100 list, and the founder of CocktailSafe.org. A longer bio is here.