🏳️🌈✊🏾 FINAL EVENT OF THE SEASON | 30 seats. This is your last chance until fall.
June brings us Juneteenth on the 19th and PRIDE Month throughout, and tonight we are honoring both with a single powerful truth: marginalized communities have always built joy, culture, and celebration as acts of resistance. When the world told Black Americans they did not belong at the table, they built their own tables—speakeasies in Harlem where jazz was born, cocktail recipes that shaped American bartending, and traditions like Juneteenth's red drinks that carried African heritage through slavery and into freedom. When the world told LGBTQ+ folks to hide who they were, they built bars that became sanctuaries—the Stonewall Inn where the modern PRIDE movement ignited, the ballrooms where chosen families gathered, and the spaces where drag queens and bartenders created culture while pouring drinks and building movements. Tonight, The Intoxicologist's Table honors the bartenders, the drag queens, the community builders, and the cultural architects who understood that creating joy in the face of oppression is not frivolous. It is revolutionary. This is not just a cocktail tasting. This is a celebration of the people who built the blueprint for how we gather, how we celebrate, and how we survive.
WHAT YOU'LL TASTE
Cocktail 1: Tom Bullock's Old Fashioned
🥃 Alcoholic: Bourbon, Demerara Sugar, Angostura Bitters, Orange Peel
🌿 Non-Alcoholic: Lyre's American Malt, Demerara Sugar, Orange Bitters, Orange Peel
Cocktail 2: The Stonewall (Rainbow Tribute)
🥃 Alcoholic: Layered Fruit Liqueurs (Grenadine, Orange, Blue Curaçao) + Vodka
🌿 Non-Alcoholic: Layered Fruit Syrups (Strawberry, Orange, Blueberry) + Sparkling Water
Cocktail 3: Liberation Toast (Champagne with Strawberry)
🥃 Alcoholic: Champagne, Fresh Strawberry Puree or Peach Schnapps
🌿 Non-Alcoholic: Non-Alcoholic Sparkling Wine, Strawberry Puree
THE CULTURAL STORIES
Tom Bullock's Old Fashioned: Tom Bullock was the first Black American to author a cocktail book—The Ideal Bartender, published in 1917. He worked at the St. Louis Country Club, and his recipes shaped American bartending even when his name was systematically erased from the history books. This Old Fashioned is his signature, and when you taste it, you are tasting the work of a man who had to be twice as good to get half the recognition, who trained white bartenders who would go on to take credit for techniques he taught them, and who still managed to leave a legacy that survived a century of erasure. Every time you order an Old Fashioned anywhere in America, you are drinking something a Black bartender perfected and then watched the world forget his name. Tonight, we remember.
The Stonewall: June 28, 1969. The Stonewall Inn in New York City. Police raided a gay bar for the hundredth time, but this time, the patrons fought back. Marsha P. Johnson, a Black trans woman, Sylvia Rivera, a Latinx trans woman, and countless others said enough. The raid turned into a riot. The riot turned into a movement. The movement became PRIDE. This rainbow-layered cocktail honors that night—colorful, defiant, unapologetic, and built by people who had nothing left to lose and everything to gain. When you drink this, you are drinking a tribute to the drag queens, the trans women, and the bar patrons who threw the first brick and sparked a revolution that is still unfinished.
Liberation Toast: Red drinks hold deep significance in Juneteenth celebrations—representing resilience, remembrance, and African traditions that survived slavery. Champagne holds significance in LGBTQ+ culture—representing celebration, extravagance, and refusing to dim your light even when the world demands it. Tonight, we combine them. This toast is for everyone who built joy as resistance, who threw parties when the world said they had no right to celebrate, and who understood that liberation is not just about survival. It is about thriving with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. This is for everyone who built the blueprint.
EVENT DETAILS
📍 Location: 821 E. Washington Avenue, Madison, WI 53703
🕕 Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM (75 minutes)
🎟️ Cost: FREE (limited to 30 guests)
📋 Registration: Required via Luma
Each cocktail is presented with both alcoholic and non-alcoholic versions side-by-side. Professional photography will document the evening. This is an intimate, educational experience for adults 21+ (or 18+ for NA-only attendees). This event celebrates Juneteenth and PRIDE Month with reverence, education, and joy.
This is the final Table of the season. Reserve your seat before the Blueprint closes.