And then it hit me.
Crowdsampling.
That's the word I'm using here -- "crowdsampling" -- and here's how it works.
We're loading up a small bag with a delightful collection of 66 Gilead bitters, at which point I'm simply going to hand it off to my favourite local Market barkeep, cocktail wizard Stephen at The Black Tomato. Inside the bag will be a short set of rules for how this will work, and I paraphrase and condense thusly:
- When you receive the bag, you drop me an e-mail telling me you have it.
- You can experiment to your heart's content for, say, 4 or 5 days.
- You pass on the bag to someone else, and e-mail me telling me where it's gone.
- Repeat.
And let me introduce you to the boys, all 12 of them:
They would be:
- Black Walnut
- Cherry
- Orange
- Lavender
- Violet
- Silk Road
- Snake Root
- La Fee Verte (Absinthe)
- Smoke
- Hops
- Ambrosia
- Rose
- Twitter handle "canadiancynic"
- Twitter handle "66gilead"
- Twitter hashtag "#WanderingBitters"
In any event, the Wandering Bitters have officially started wandering, and we will be tracking their migration pattern as they make their way around town. This should be interesting.
Where are they now?
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