We have come to that time of year once again when we all pour ourselves a drink and reflect, again, on Mennonite heritage. That's right -...
Order Menno-Nightcaps from your local bookseller or big box chain.
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.
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.
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)
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
Love your book @TheDrunkenMenno and tonight seemed to call for a negroni - a Nestor Makhnegroni, that is. It was bitterly delicious.
— Carla DeMarco @ home forever (@cjdemarco) November 14, 2021
(I know I’m supposed to strain out the ice but I like certain cocktails on the rocks.)
Cheers!🍹 pic.twitter.com/LRlXntVHBy
Review Menno-Nightcaps: Cousin Klassen's treatise is a cool drink on a hot day. Comprehensive to the point of making the Journal of Mennonite Studies obsolete. No portmanteau goes unpunished. No martyr unmentioned. 14/10 @TheDrunkenMenno pic.twitter.com/KouLA7r8FO
— Paul Peters (@TwoSaintsWorth) September 26, 2021
I (sort of) answer 5 questions about my book, my cocktails and the inadvisability of drinking in the closet.
— 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?…
Very excited to receive this book by @TheDrunkenMenno for my birthday this week! Thanks for keeping Mennonite Twitter an interesting place and helping us keep humour in the mix.
— Matthew Froese (@Matthew_Froese) October 15, 2021
Although I read through some drink names for my partner and had to explain what thumb screws are…
Fun book chat. Great book. Delicious cocktail. Thanks @TheDrunkenMenno @realandrewunger @mcnallyrobinson ! https://t.co/aTWa4EqpEH
— Dr. Janis Thiessen (@JanisThiessen) November 13, 2021
. @TheDrunkenMenno I cannot describe how happy this books makes me, so glad I bought 5 copies. pic.twitter.com/v0NxWvaKu9
— DEAN (@nick_with_no_k) October 17, 2021
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