][1]Whisky cocktails are on the menu at 5pm member bar The Blind Pig on Thursday night. The Monkey Mob, courtesy of Monkey Shoulder Triple Malt Scotch Whisky, will be running the show at the speakeasy drinking hole on Glasgow’s Byres Road.
Whisky cocktails from the Prohibition Era are the name of the game along with poker tables, safe-cracking masterclasses and hot jazz on the gramophone. As well as promoting Whisky Shoulder, the idea is to celebrate the creativity of the Prohibition barmen. The period cocktails on offer will include the Monkey Manhattan, the Monkey Flip, the Ginger Monkey and the Smokey Monkey.
In the coming months, there will be further Monkey Shoulder nights themed around the evolution of whisky cocktails. The next stop is the Fifties and then, presumably after a spot crystal ball gazing, the future.
Entry is free and if you pre-register at www.monkeyshoulder.com, you get two complimentary cocktails on the night.
It sounds rather suave compared to some of the drinks promo nights that your correspondent has been to. Almost twenty years on, I still remember, vaguely, a tequila promo event at a student union. In order to win a T-shirt, drinkers had to knock back a shot of tequila, put the empty glass on the end of broom handle and then lift the broom above your head. You then had to spin around twenty times while looking up at the glass. If you hadn’t fallen over by this point then the final challenge was to down another shot of tequila.
I imagine that health and safety regulations would frown on that sort of thing these days. By comparison, the Monkey Mob’s night at the Blind Pig sounds like the last word in adult sophistication.