Name this woman-friendly cocktail school
July 5, 2013 11:07 AM   Subscribe

CleverFilter: Please help me come up with a (non-masculinist) name for a monthly cocktail-making meetup!

I was recently at a great bar, sadly outside my hometown, where none of the bartenders were male-identified, and it was fantastic! There's a budding cocktail culture in my city, but it's very masculinist, and not especially welcoming to people who aren't already pretty deeply in the know (and who don't have beards!). There are a lot of people here who are curious about classic drinks, but who are put off by the culture.

I'd like to create a monthly event where some friends and I get together and learn about making mixed drinks that's not such a boys' club: an alternative space where we can learn and experiment with making tasty drinks, without mansplaining, bossiness, or the need to perform mastery.

I'm looking for a name for our group, or the event, or both, but I'm having a cleverness dry spell.
I'd like something that alludes to the fact that we're a low-testosterone collective, but we're also not going to be focused on sugary, appearance-focused "girl drinks" or Sex-in-the-City-type femininity, so much as learning about ingredients, tools, techniques, and classic recipes.
Hit me with your best shot! (Womp, womp...)
posted by Edna Million to Food & Drink (32 answers total) 5 users marked this as a favorite
 
Libation-Ladies
Sassy Speakeasy
posted by matty at 11:14 AM on July 5, 2013 [1 favorite]


Thinkin' and Drinkin'
Femixologists
I am Woman, Hear Me Pour
Hips and Sips
posted by thinkpiece at 11:16 AM on July 5, 2013 [6 favorites]


Mujeres and Shakers
posted by Tsuga at 11:23 AM on July 5, 2013 [2 favorites]


Fierce Bartenders
Ferocious Bartenders
Cosmopolitan Bartenders
Highly Intelligent Bartenders
posted by BostonTerrier at 11:25 AM on July 5, 2013


My city's got LUPEC, which is Ladies for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails, and they do pretty much exactly what you're aiming at. The name's not cutesy, which I think is more inclusive and emphasizes that you're not going to be talking about eighteen variations on a cosmo.
posted by punchtothehead at 11:36 AM on July 5, 2013 [7 favorites]


The Not-So-Cocktail Club.
posted by Capt. Renault at 11:37 AM on July 5, 2013 [2 favorites]


Edna Million's Cocktail School for Ladies.
Bartendrix Academy.
posted by adamrice at 11:37 AM on July 5, 2013


Hey guys, just FYI, I don't think this group is going to be all-woman. I may be reading it wrong, but the Sassy Lady stuff seems like the opposite of what the poster was asking for.

The New Old Fashioned
Bold Fashioned
Bitters & Bark or The Bitters & Bark Society
Social Tonic
The [Place Name] [Hard] Shake ("hard shake" is a specialized Japanese cocktail technique, you'd end up with something like "The Chicago Hard Shake" or "The Alabama Shake")
posted by Juliet Banana at 11:42 AM on July 5, 2013 [4 favorites]


The $Cityname Women's Anti-Temperance Association
posted by travertina at 11:43 AM on July 5, 2013 [15 favorites]


BartendHer.
posted by dywypi at 11:44 AM on July 5, 2013 [4 favorites]


Twisted Knickers Cocktail Collective
posted by juniperesque at 11:45 AM on July 5, 2013


Angostura Amazons
posted by oceanjesse at 11:55 AM on July 5, 2013


The Anti-Temperance Society (on preview, like travertina's suggestion)
Sheba's Tea Room

I like names that reference the Prohibition Era. It was the first period in America when women were going to drink in public establishments in large numbers. It also marks the rise of cocktails as the hooch served often needed some doctoring to be enjoyable and cocktails became widely popular. There's lots of fun slang from the 20's, too.
posted by quince at 12:02 PM on July 5, 2013 [2 favorites]


Drinks for Dummies.
posted by SquidLips at 12:11 PM on July 5, 2013


Hey, Boston has a LUPEC too. And you'll like their tagline: "Dismantling the patriarchy…one drink at a time!". I think the name's pretty cool, because having the word "Ladies" in it will filter out exactly the kind of person you don't want.

(An even if you come up with your own name they still sound like a great resource to hook up with.)
posted by benito.strauss at 12:47 PM on July 5, 2013 [2 favorites]


The Women's Libation Liberation Workshop.

(Also thought about Women's Libation Liberation Lab.)
posted by fikri at 12:48 PM on July 5, 2013 [3 favorites]


fikri: Ladies Libation Liberation Lab, aka L4?
posted by Sunburnt at 2:03 PM on July 5, 2013 [3 favorites]


Lipstick jiggers
posted by oceanjesse at 2:43 PM on July 5, 2013


[groping for some sort of tagline about taking the "cock" out of cocktails]
posted by GrammarMoses at 2:49 PM on July 5, 2013 [3 favorites]


Re:Mix
Mix Mavens
Libe Aid
Sipsters (? - too gendered?)

Or, with apologies for the raunch, if that's not a direction you want to go:
Hoochie Mamas (?)
Get Your Rocks On (?)
posted by GrammarMoses at 2:57 PM on July 5, 2013


Response by poster: I am loving these, and thanks so much for the heads-up about LUPEC, which is very much what I was thinking of!
Juliet Banana is right in thinking that the aim is inclusivity, rather than exclusivity, but suggestions of all kinds are making me grin!
posted by Edna Million at 3:49 PM on July 5, 2013


Fancy Mixers
Muddlers and Shakers (apologies to the above)
(Cityname) Fizz
Savvy Mixers
Society for Cocktail Arts (we take mixing seriously)
posted by bunderful at 4:15 PM on July 5, 2013


Elixiration
Home Improofment
Her Mixalot
Sometimes a Great Potion
Potentials
posted by jamjam at 4:31 PM on July 5, 2013 [1 favorite]


Fish Without Bicycles - 'cause you drink like fish and Gloria Steinem.
posted by ltisz at 4:58 PM on July 5, 2013 [3 favorites]


The Bitter Half
posted by Joseph Gurl at 5:12 PM on July 5, 2013 [3 favorites]


The clear spirit, a nod to the seminal book that includes extensive information on the Famous Five - including Louise McKinney who campaigned for prohitionin Alberta - raise a tipple for her!
posted by saucysault at 7:09 PM on July 5, 2013 [2 favorites]


What's Shakin?
posted by Trivia Newton John at 7:29 PM on July 5, 2013 [1 favorite]


If you go with any prohibition theme (the second prohibition began Dominion Day, 1916 - start planning your century party, too bad you just missed the 50th anniversary of men and women legally able to drink together in public) you should issue membership cards that are reproductions of the prescription pads for medicinal liquor.
posted by saucysault at 7:32 PM on July 5, 2013 [1 favorite]


There are some outstanding suggestions above. Following on the Not-so-Cocktails idea, what about the Cattail Club?
posted by TrixieRamble at 9:07 PM on July 5, 2013


The Dorothy Parker Society.
posted by Ironmouth at 6:13 AM on July 6, 2013


Lady Slings the Booze. (title of a Spider Robinson novel)
posted by escapepod at 3:54 AM on July 7, 2013 [1 favorite]


Spirit Animals
posted by Joseph Gurl at 9:22 PM on July 10, 2013


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