Great Expectations: Festive Cocktails with Charles Dickens

Travel back to a cozier time, when traveling societies shared drinks around the fire and even debtors could find respite over a bowl of hot gin punch. Charles Dickens may have put his characters through a dizzying array of trials and tribulations, but they all shared his love of a stiff drink. We will guide you through a few of Boz’s own recipes — a whiskey sling from his Sketches, and a port-based drink or two appropriate for the season — taken straight from his pages.