Spies & Spymasters Virtual Happy Hour
A Drink with Winston Churchill: Leadership and Secret Intelligence
Scotch and soda with breakfast, champagne after lunch, and brandy into the wee hours. If that sounds like your pandemic drinking habits, you are in good company! Winston Churchill is well known as an avid consumer of alcohol. What is perhaps less well known is that he was also an avid consumer of secret intelligence: one of the greatest of the twentieth century. Eighty years ago, he became Prime Minister of the UK for the first time and led the country through the Battle of Britain and the Blitz. What can we learn from Churchill to help us through our own troubled times? Join incoming Spy Museum Historian Dr. Andrew Hammond to discover how Churchill as a consumer of intelligence (and alcohol?!) would have confronted our contemporary challenges including Covid-19.
A local bartender from Free State will be shaking up a cocktail worthy of a Prime Minister—Churchill didn’t like “sweet” American cocktails, but he did love his alcohol. He said that his idea of a martini was a glass of ice-cold gin waived in the general direction of a bottle of vermouth! We’ve named our drink this evening in honor of Churchill’s famous quote that he had nothing to offer but “Blood, toil, tears, and sweat.” (Recipe below)
You’re welcome to ask questions after the talk—whether they relate to Churchill or Andrew!
This occasion calls for a truly stiff drink: Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat!
INGREDIENTS
1.5oz Chacho (can substitute in your favorite vodka as well!)
3oz Tomato Juice
.5oz Lemon Juice
A dash of Worcestershire sauce
Cracked black pepper
Sea Salt Rim
Lemon wedge garnish
Combine Chacho, tomato juice and lemon juice, black pepper and Worcestershire sauce, shake until mixed. Dip the rim of the glass in some lemon juice, then sea salt to rim the glass. Fill the glass with ice, pour and enjoy!
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