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Camper English
@alcademics.bsky.social
Cocktail writer, author of The Ice Book (2023) and Doctors and Distillers (2022). Now also giving SF cocktail history tours.
https://www.alcademics.com
hello it’s 3:30 and i just got through enough admin to start the writing i was supposed to do all day today
February 19, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Hi - There is space in my next Water Tasting Classes this coming Saturday and Tuesday in San Francisco. Come drink with me!

www.eventbrite.com/e/water-tast...
Water Tasting, Education, and Appreciation Workshop
Learn to taste and rate tap and bottled still and sparkling waters like a pro and understand the difference between brands!
www.eventbrite.com
February 19, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Do you think the young people know that Queen Latifah had an early career in music?
February 19, 2026 at 5:57 AM
I wrote about the closing of Hotaling’s distillery. Lots more info didn’t make it in. Let me see if I can get a gift link.

www.sfchronicle.com/food/article...
The company previously known as Anchor Distilling to close San Francisco distillery
Hotaling & Co., previously Anchor Distilling, is no longer in the distilling business.
www.sfchronicle.com
February 18, 2026 at 6:26 PM
up late doing journalism
February 18, 2026 at 7:34 AM
When you go to a friends house for takeout and they do not share the same feeling about food temperature
February 15, 2026 at 4:55 AM
Every shape of potato chip has a unique optimal bowl
February 14, 2026 at 3:57 AM
ok just a lil tequila, as a treat
February 13, 2026 at 10:24 PM
soundcloud just played me a song with a guitar solo in it, fucking gross
February 13, 2026 at 7:02 PM
someone should tell restaurants that a link to a reservations page is not a listing of hours of operation.
February 12, 2026 at 6:38 PM
nice ice
February 12, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Reposted by Camper English
You just don’t usually hear them articulate in public, out loud, the idea that as long as a few folks get rich it’s OK to rape children.
Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."
February 11, 2026 at 6:28 PM
100 years ago today Duncan Nicol died.
#piscopunch

alcademics.com/100-years-ag...
February 9, 2026 at 6:43 PM
There was a Kelce at Comstock
February 8, 2026 at 1:41 AM
IMO Meta apps also support evil, so when it comes to Substack I more believe that if your newsletter is successful you should move it at that point; move if you can afford to.
February 7, 2026 at 9:51 PM
The SF Chronicle’s Food & Wine reporter job was open for a long time and now filled with a familiar name.

www.sfchronicle.com/about/newsro...
Tara Duggan joins Chronicle Food & Wine team
Tara Duggan, a former San Francisco Chronicle food reporter for more than two decades, returns to the desk after five years covering environmental issues.
www.sfchronicle.com
February 6, 2026 at 10:13 PM
I don’t share this anecdote in the story but in my family the tradition is to put vinegar on a child’s thumb when you want them to stop thumbsucking, but I loved vinegar from the get-go so I developed early deepthroating skills instead.

www.vinegarprofessor.com/blog/using-v...
Using Vinegar in Cocktails | The Vinegar Professor
Discover how a splash of vinegar can bring balance and complexity to cocktails.
www.vinegarprofessor.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:37 PM
A rotunda? In this economy?
February 6, 2026 at 4:44 AM
I never thought about this before, but isn’t it mixed messaging that San Francisco of all places has an island prison right out front?
February 6, 2026 at 4:23 AM
the “cool down” minute in public laundromat dryers should not be part of the 5 minute drying cycle but an extra minute afterward. thank you for listening.
February 5, 2026 at 3:26 PM
today Feb 5 is Whiskey Galore Day, the day a ship full of whisky wrecked off the coast of a small Scottish island whose inhabitants ‘rescued’ the cargo

alcademics.com/whisky-shipw...
February 5, 2026 at 3:04 PM
The English Files would mostly be emails from me saying, “Just checking in to see if any of these pitches are of interest!”
February 4, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Reposted by Camper English
most of my water tasting workshops are sold out (1 tix left on 2/14, 2/17) out so I added two more dates in late February 2/21 and 2/24:

www.eventbrite.com/cc/water-tas...
Water Tasting and Appreciation Classes
We’ll taste test 12-16 different waters and students will leave the class with an appreciation for the variety of water to drink, a way to describe how they taste, and a new thirst for this category.
www.eventbrite.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:05 PM
the good ice
February 1, 2026 at 8:59 PM