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A satirical cocktail book featuring seventy-seven cocktail recipes accompanied by arcane trivia on Mennonite history, faith, and cultural practices.

At last, you think, a book of cocktails that pairs punny drinks with Mennonite history! Yes, cocktail enthusiast and author of the popular Drunken Mennonite blog Sherri Klassen is here to bring some Low German love to your bar cart. Drinks like Brandy Anabaptist, Migratarita, Thrift Store Sour, and Pimm’s Cape Dress are served up with arcane trivia on Mennonite history, faith, and cultural practices.

Arranged by theme, the book opens with drinks inspired by the Anabaptists of sixteenth-century Europe (Bloody Martyr, anyone?), before moving on to religious beliefs and practices (a little like going to a bar after class in Seminary, but without actually going to class). The third chapter toasts the Mennonite history of migration (Old Piña Colony), and the fourth is all about the trappings of Mennonite cultural identity (Singalong Sling).

With seventy-seven recipes, ripping satire, comical illustrations, a cocktails-to-mocktails chapter for the teetotallers, and instructions on scaling up for barn-raisings and funerals, it’s just the thing for the Mennonite, Menno-adjacent, or merely Menno-curious home mixologist.

Get in Touch

If you would like to sell Menno-Nightcaps in your bookshop, gift store, cocktail bar, or at the back of your Church among the money-changers, please contact curtis@touchwoodeditions.com.

You should also contact him if you would like to review the book or have me talk to your Mennonite history and/or drinking group.

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Events

December 2, 2022: 7 PM-9 PM MennoNightcaps and The Vegan Mennonite @ The Yeti Cafe, 14 Eby St. Kitchener

September 11, 2022: Definitely Not the Sunday School Picnic, Toronto

July 21, 2022: 3 pm -5 pm. Book Signing, Indigo Books, Polo Festival, Winnipeg, Manitoba

June 2, 2022: In Conversation with Casey Plett (Toronto LitUp Event at Centre for Social Innovation)

December 9, 2021: Centre for Transnational Study of Mennonites (online roundtable on Mennonites and Alcohol)

November 12, 2021: S. L. Klassen & Andrew Unger: A (Virtual) Evening of Menno-Nightcaps, McNally Robinson, Winnipeg (online event – https://fb.me/e/1Qi5YLDDa)

October 15, 2021: Downtown Books and Sound, Salinas, California (online event: https://fb.me/e/1aZMfvsKp)

Reviews and Other Acts of Kindness from Social Media and my Community of Readers and Mennonite Drinkers

 

Just Plain Wrong

I talk to the Mennobrarians about favorite cocktails, famous Mennonites on Twitter, and the More-with-Less Cookbook on the Sept 22, 2021 episode of the Just Plain Wrong Podcast

Interview and Giveaway with Mennotoba

I (sort of) answer 5 questions about my book, my cocktails and the inadvisability of drinking in the closet.

5 Menno Lit Books to Look For in Fall 2021

— Erin Koop Unger, Mennotoba

It seems to me like there’s an amazing crop of Mennonite literature coming this fall. Some heavy hitters for sure. I’m certain there are others that I’m not aware of, but this is a good place to start with your fall 2021 Menno reading list. Look for these at your local independent book store in the coming weeks and months! Which book are you most looking forward to?…

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