Hammarhead Industries kicked off their three part Triumph build last night at the Dunderdon NYC shop.

We couldn’t have been happier to serve up some ROOT and SNAP cocktails while James and the Hammarhead crew worked on their new build.

A great crowd showed up to grab a drink and watch the bike come to life, and the Dunderdon store was the perfect setting.  We can’t wait for the next two events!

More event shots below:

Join us Thursdays, May 17th, 24th and 31 st from 6-9pm to kick off an installation with Hammarhead Industries at the Dunderdon NYC shop.

We’ve been hardcore Hammarhead fans since day one, and we couldn’t think of a better setting than the Dunderdon shop for the build!

Sample a few cocktails, browse the shop, and watch as James and the Hammarhead  team create a brand new custom Triumph to add to their already stellar lineup.

Dunderdon, 25 Howard Street, Manhattan.

 
Join Walter and Margaux Kent with the Peg and Awl team for an informative talk about urban food forests and their new Edible Backyards project.

Veteran urban egg farmer, Anna Herman, whose chicks are currently living in the Peg and Awl coop at Art in the Age, will lead a discussion on different methods of raising healthy chickens in an urban environment.

We’ll also be serving complimentary ROOT, SNAP, and RHUBY cocktails featuring fresh herbs from the Peg and Awl garden!

Visit our Facebook event page and invite your friends: May Workshop

Kari is the founder of Morris Kitchen, a product and catering company based in Brooklyn, NY. Since 2006, Kari has been cooking, teaching and making good food. Morris Kitchen took shape in 2009 when Kari and her brother, Tyler, decided to start bottling ginger syrup. Now the spicy syrup is sold in over 50 stores, including Art in the Age!

Kari mixed up this tried and true cocktail with SNAP, recently featured on Design Sponge, that has a delicious spicy kick from the ginger syrup!

Ginger Snap Cocktail

• 1 part Morris Kitchen Ginger Syrup
• 3 parts SNAP
• 1 part orange juice
• 4 parts black tea

Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker; fill with ice and shake well. Pour into a highball glass and garnish with an orange slice.

DS & Durga hand-craft their perfume and cologne in small batches using only the most premium ingredients.

They take inspiration from herbal wisdom, native ritual medicine, Americana, outdated lore, geography, history, and gastronomy.

One of our favorites, Burning Barbershop, references a barbershop that fell to a fire in the late 1800′s and imagines what the one bottle of tonic found afterward would smell like… yum.

Available now at AITA and online: Boston Ivy, Mississppi Medicine,  My Indian Childhood,  Poppy Rouge, Siberian Snow, Burning Barbershop, and coming soon Freetrapper.

Last night our friends from Bands in the Backyard surprised us with an impromptu performance by Dirty Beaches at the Art in the Age store!

The band dropped by to play a quick set, and sample a few Art in the Age cocktails before their show with Xiu Xiu later that night.

Stay tuned for a full length video and interview by Bands in the Backyard!

On the Brink of Extinction: An original cocktail inspired by Borf, DC’s most prolific graffiti artist in the mid-2000s.

By the time he was arrested in July 2005, Borf was the stuff of legend. He had covered DC with tags and stencil works, and he had even made a presence in San Francisco, New York, and throughout the mid-Atlantic region. Blogs and newspapers questioned if Borf was one person, an organized collective, or a disassociated rogue band.

This cocktail is inspired by one of the last remaining original Borf pieces in the city (pictured above).

1 part Bulleit Bourbon
1 part Orange Juice (Freshly Squeezed)
1 part ROOT
1 barspoon Fernet Branca

Shake with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with an orange wheel.

Borf may have been an anarchist, but you may want to be conservative with the Fernet Branca.

Source: This is an original cocktail created by Cocktails DC for Washington City Paper’s art-inspired cocktail contest, in which it placed first!

Working with the Philadelphia Beekeepers Guild on this past month’s beekeeping exhibition has been an amazing experience, but now it’s time to fill the painted hives with bees for the summer season!

Special thanks to Suzanne Matlock and The Beekeepers Guild members for all of their contributions, and to The Reverend Michael Alan, Jessie Mademann, Leanne Biank, Nicholas Polidore, and Aaron Birk for their amazing artwork!  Also, thanks to Charles Nicholson, Annie from Urban Apiaries, and Jon from Earth Bread Brewery for taking part in our beekeeping lecture.

If you weren’t able to see the show, click on the images below for shots from our beekeeping lecture and Guild meeting.

Peg and Awl: Edible Backyards
A history of gardening based in the city of Philadelphia.
May 4^th-31^st, 2012
Opening Reception: May 4^th, 6-8PM
 
Peg and Awl will demonstrate how to apply sensible gardening techniques of the past to our current urban landscape.

Featuring work by Margaux and Walter Kent, Darla Jackson, Joe Kirby, and Andrew McGlennon.

We’re so excited to carry TomR’s handcrafted tonic at our Art in the Age store!

In an effort to make a Gin and Tonic that can be savored and not swilled, Tom R set out to find the perfect ingredients that harken back to tonic’s exotic heritage.

Tom could find great small batch gins, but the tonic left him wanting more. He set out to create a tonic that was true to the beverages Peruvian heritage.

The criteria was simple:

1. the ingredient list must include bark from the cinchona tree (the original source of quinine)

2. the flavor had to enhance, not overpower the flavor of any Gin

3. everything had to be 100% natural and organic.

After hundreds of hours of experimentation, Tom came up with the lovely amber colored liquid, which he appropriately named Tomr’s Tonic. The ingredient list is simple, but with that TomR’s is something truly unique; a small batch tonic water that delivers exotic flavors and melds beautifully with your favorite Gin.

We’ve found that TomR’s mixes perfectly with RHUBY, for a refreshing warm weather cooler.

1 part TomR’s Tonic

2 parts RHUBY

3 parts seltzer

Pour over ice and serve with a wedge of lime, or stalk of fresh rhubarb.