This weekend marked the 135th Annual Kentucky Derby. In celebration, we headed into Brooklyn for the Maker's Mark sponsored celebration at Union Hall.
The Garden buzzed with tipsy Brooklynites, a few grills were smoking with burgers and hot dogs. Bourbon flowed, sloshed and painted cheeks pink. Among the promotions: $3 Maker's Mint Juleps and three for $3 mini Rolling Rock bottles.
A country band played until moments before the main event. A young man turned to Alvarez and remarked on his seer sucker suit, "You're wearing what you should. That's real traditional. In my fraternity, well I'm from Kentucky, but I went to school in Baton Rouge, we all wore seer sucker. Then I worked at this hedge fund, and we didn't have casual Fridays, we had seer sucker Fridays."
After a few drinks and watching Mine That Bird take the winner's seat, we bounced to a few other bars: Playa and Rachel's Taqueria, before heading home to Manhattan.
1 comment:
Glad to see you had a good time!
Till the next event.
Steve
Makers Mark Distillery Diplomat
New York City
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