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2009-02-26T21:28:00.002-07:00

The LUPEC Denver blog has moved!
Check us out at our new home:
www.lupecdenver.wordpress.com

Crush Party Time

2008-10-16T15:47:00.003-06:00

OMG! Are you so excited? I know that we totally are! Only a few more days until you get to let all of those crushworthy people in your life know how you really feel....

For additional details, please email lupecdenver@gmail.com.

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO

Our newest members

2008-09-26T10:11:00.003-06:00

Although Krista and Heather joined us a little while ago, they finally selected their drink names! Hooray! So in honor of them, here are the receipes for their drink names:

Tom Collins (a.k.a. Heather)
Ingredients:

1 1/2 oz gin
1 oz lemon juice
1/2 oz sugar syrup
club soda
maraschino cherry for garnish
lemon slice or orange slice for garnish

Pour gin, lemon juice and sugar syrup in a collins glass with ice cubes. Stir well. Top with club soda and garnish with the cherry and lemon/orange slice.

*A lot of bars will make the Tom Collins using sour mix and soda water.

Harvey Wallbanger (a.k.a. Krista)

Ingredients:

3/4 oz vodka
1 1/2 oz orange juice
1/4 oz Galliano
orange slice for garnish
maraschino cherry for garnish

Pou vodka and orange juice in a collins glass filled with ice. Add the Galliano. Garnish with the orange slice and maraschino cherry.

Receipes from yesterday

2008-09-01T15:38:00.006-06:00

Hey kids!
Just wanted to thank Modern Drunkard for having us at the Drunkard National Convention. Special thanks to Rich and Sid Pink. We had a blast and hope you did too!
By request, we wanted to share the recipes from the presentation.

Sidecar
Ingredients:

1 1/2 oz bourbon, brandy or Cognac
3/4 oz Cointreau
1/4 oz lemon juice

Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake lightly. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. LUPEC Member Vivienne VaVoom (aka The Vamp) recommends sugaring the rim with a citrus-flavored sugar and garnishing with a lemon twist.
*A little history to go with this drink: The Sidecar was created in Paris during WWI as a pre-dinner cocktail.

Pink
Ingredients:

2 oz Watermelon Pucker
1 oz Pomegranate Vodka
3oz Guava nectar
Splash of Fresca or Sprite
Lime

Pour Watermelon Pucker, Pomegranate Vodka and Guava nectar into a shaker filled with ice. Shake well and strain into a Collins glass filled with ice. Add splash of Fresca and a lime wedge.
*"Pink" isn't exactly a classic/endangered cocktail, but it is delicious.

Scarlett O'Hara
Ingredients:

2 oz Southern Comfort
6 oz Cranberry Juice
1 wedge of lime

Pour 2 oz Southern Comfort over ice in a highball glass. Fill with cranberry juice. Squeeze one wedge of lime into drink. Stir and serve.
*SoCo has been produced since 1874 and is made from a blend of whiskey, peach, apricot, orange, vanilla, sugar and cinnamon flavors. The Scarlett O'Hara was one of the earliest Southern Comfort-based cocktails to be marketed.

Brandy Alexander
Ingredients:

1 1/2 oz brandy
1 oz dark creme de cacao
1 oz half & half
1/4 tsp grated nutmeg

Add all ingredients to a shaker filled with ice. Shake well and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with nutmeg.
*The Brandy Alexander was know as John Lennon's favorite drink.

Cheers!

Sunday Booze and Pop Rocks....

2008-07-08T13:21:00.003-06:00

A few of us spent Sunday evening creating drink recipes for an upcoming charity roller skating party.

We found that rimming your glass with pop rocks makes for a very interesting drinking experience and putting pop rocks on a lime provides a fun kick after a shot.

The best part of the whole night was the knowledge that if we ran out of booze, we could pick some up because Denver finally allows alcohol sales on Sundays (as of July 1st)! This is the first time that liquor stores can sell alcohol on Sundays since the Prohibition.

http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_9803667

Thank you Denver....thank you for making it easier for us LUPEC gals in Denver to do what we do best 7 days a week!

And they're off!

2008-05-01T10:05:00.006-06:00

The 134th Kentucky Derby is celebrated this Saturday. Now, I've never really been into horse racing, but I am certainly into Mint Juleps (and giant fancy hats).
The Mint Julep became Churchill Down's signature drink in 1938, but originated in the eighteenth century.

How To Make A Mint Julep
(from cocktails.about.com)

Ingredients:

leaves from 4-5 mint sprigs
2 sugar cubes or 1/2 oz. simple syrup
2 1/2 oz bourbon
mint sprig for garnish

Preparation:

Place the mint and simple syrup or sugar into a julep cup, collins glass or double old-fashioned glass.
Muddle well to dissolve the sugar and to release the oil and aroma of the mint.
Add the bourbon.
Fill with crushed ice and stir well until the glass becomes frosty.
Garnish with the mint sprig.

Fix yourself a mint julep and countdown the days to LUPEC Denver's Fourth Annual Breakfast for Boobs on May 11th!

Gearing up for B4B4!

2008-04-24T23:09:00.006-06:00

I sent out an email to a whole slew of people today about our 4th Annual Breakfast for Boobs and one of the responses I got from a guy friend was:
"I wish I could go. I love boobs!"

So do we, Geoffrey. So do we.

Here's the scoop on this year's B4B:

The Annual LUPEC Breakfast for Boobs
Mother's Day
Sunday, May 11th, 5-9pm
Hot Cakes Diner
1400 E. 18th Avenue

The LUPEC girls are so excited to get our aprons on and wait on all of you! Having waited tables all through college, and having pretty much gotten fed up with people by the end of that time, I'm not quite sure why it's so fun. Maybe cuz we only have to do it for a few hours. Maybe cuz we know all our work is going right to a great cause. Maybe cuz you're all just so generous and so much fun to be around.

Proceeds from the evening go to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure (Denver Metro chapter), and other local organizations that help women achieve early diagnoses of breast cancer, regain their health, and work toward its cure.

Hope to see you there!

Spring Cocktail Party

2008-04-06T20:30:00.012-06:00

Thanks to everyone that came out on Friday to our cocktail party. We had a blast seeing all of you and appreciate all of your support. Thanks again to the Capelli's for opening up their incredible space to us (http://www.capellifloral.com/). It was a great kick off to spring

Here are a few photos from the event:

Sangria!

Springtime Punch!

Hector - one of our great B4B volunteers!

Mmm...shrimp cocktail

Some of our favorite people!

Saki Stinger (a.k.a. Barb) giving away a big-ass bottle of wine

Crista and Heather (a.k.a. Denver's Top Model) leave with their hands full of cupcakes, Sangria and a beautiful Capelli floral arrangement (http://www.capellifloral.com/)!

Thanks again and please check back soon for details on our upcoming Breakfast for Boobs event on Sunday, May 11th (a.k.a. Mother's Day)!

Cheers!

Ira Glass has a crush on us!!

2007-10-30T17:40:00.000-06:00

In preparation for the Crush party, we always have a lot of fun discussing all of the various people we have a crush on...many of them rather unattainable. And then, we create a list of all of these crushees and write letters to them (or their agents as the case may be), expressing our admiration and on them and inviting them to the Crush Party.

Now, I don't really pay much attention to celebrities in general and I don't really watch tv or many movies, so I don't usually get too excited with this portion of the Crush Party preparations because I usually end up having to send off very insincere letters to celebrities I have never heard of informing them that I have a crush on them. But this year, I sent a few letters to some of the celebrities I really do have a crush on, one of them was Ira Glass. I didn't really go into how much I really do have a crush on him because I am frankly kind of intimidated by him and didn't want to say anything stupid so as to start off on the wrong foot. So, I added just one cordial sentence about Lupec's collective crush on Ira Glass.

Dear Ira Glass,
We have a crush on you. There. We’ve said it. We are the women of LUPEC Denver (Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails). We are all hip, vivacious gals who find new and interesting cocktails on which to educate ourselves every month. Our organization is what might happen if the Junior League and Modern Drunkard had a child. And, as we said earlier, we have a big ol’ crush on you and all of the other This American Life contributors. Your soothing voices calm us when we get worked up about the injustices in the world and your eclectic stories inspire us to look at life from new and interesting angles.

With these letters, we don't really expect anything in return, but a few days before the crush party, we received the following forwarded note from the Lupec mothership in Pittsburgh:

From: Ira Glass <ira@thislife.org>

Date: October 17, 2007 10:25:18 PM EDT

To: info@lupec.org

Subject: October 20th

Hi there Lupec -

I just today got a letter from Gail Bransteitter inviting me to the party on the 20th. While of course I support your important mission, I'm afraid I can't make it to Denver for the party.

I'm honored that the ladies of Lupec would deign to have a crush on me and my radio co-workers.

Are you auctioning off stuff people send you? Is that why you want me to send something? We have This American Life tumblers - suitable for all sorts of cocktails and decorated with illustrations of various favorite stories.

Ira

Maybe someday Ira would consider including lupec in an episode, that could make up for the fact that he didn't make it to our party! For now, I'm going to pretend like this episode, 'I enjoy Being a Girl, Sort of' is dedicated to Lupec.

LUPEC Crush Party 2007 -- done and done.

2007-10-22T20:40:00.002-06:00

It all began just after 10am in the morning, when LUPEC girls hit the hi-dive to decorate. Luckily, Sputnik is in full swing by then with their scrumptious breakfasty brunchety selections. Thank goodness for this smiling face with bloody marys and bottomless mimosas. Oh, Sputnik! We love you!

The Crush sign was hung over the stage with care, in hopes that sweaty bodies soon would be there...

Balloons, balloons, and more balloons...

How did I not get a picture of the arches when they were finished??? Oh yeah. Ran out of batteries. But here's something that's quite worth it:

What a blast it is putting this party together for you guys every year. Thanks so much for coming and buying us plum out of Crush pins. We'll have an update on total $$ raised soon!!

Crush Party in Westword

2007-10-17T14:32:00.001-06:00

If you haven't had the chance to pick up this week's Westword - you really should.

http://www.westword.com/search/events.php?oid=196748

The Crush Party is only a few days away! Make sure that all your crushes show up so you can send them a crush pin!

xxxooo!

See you all on Saturday!

whiskey

2007-10-12T00:55:00.000-06:00

It's not a cocktail unless there's somethin' in it. So, in a way, my first post to this blog will be a bit illegal, because I write not about the power of a cocktail but, rather, the power of a single liquor.

Who. Knew?

I did not. I did not know that whiskey was good. Alone. All by itself.

Have I changed? Am I becoming an old man?

Last night, I ordered, alongside my dear friend Karen, her very favorite: a Jameson. Neat.

And you know what?

It was.

3rd Annual LUPEC Crush Party at the hi-dive!

2007-10-09T09:48:00.000-06:00

http://www.hi-dive.com