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Stay off the Grass – The DPD Live in D.C. Signature Cocktail

Learn all about our D.C. live show’s history lesson and drink along with the crowd with a brandy cocktail recipe from D.C.’s Bartender-in-Chief, Derek Brown.

The History Lesson

For the signature history cocktail at our June 6th show at The Fillmore in Silver Spring, D.C.’s Bartender-in-Chief, Derek Brown was inspired by a tale Nile Rodgers told us a few years back about how his hit song “Le Freak” came together.

Back in the mid-1970s, Nile was a member of the seminal disco band Chic before he went on to become a producer of some of the biggest hits in pop history (for nobodies like Madonna and David Bowie). Below, he shares a choice excerpt from his memoir “Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny.” Somehow, he was once denied entrance to New York’s disco institution Studio 54. History ensued.

The Booze

Stay off the Grass

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Mixed up by Derek Brown, the spirits and cocktail expert, and bartender behind four of the country’s most respected craft cocktail bars — Eat the Rich, Southern Efficiency, and the James Beard Award-nominated Mockingbird Hill and Columbia Room, all located in Washington, D.C. Also, he’s the guy stirring the massive cocktail base pictured above.

Ingredients:

  • 1 ounce Romate Brandy de Jerez
  • 3/4 ounce Heavy Cream
  • 3/4 ounce Alexandro Cream Sherry
  • 1/2 ounce Tempus Fugit Creme de Menthe
  • 1/2 ounce Tempus Fugit Creme de Cacao
  • Dash Cold Brewed Coffee
  • 1 Chocolate Mint Sprig

Instructions:
Combine ingredients and shake vigorously with ice until cold and frothy. Strain into chilled cocktail glass (8 oz). Garnish with a chocolate mint sprig.

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