Jeremy J. F. Thompson

“Jeremy James Foxtrot Thompson came to a love of spirits and cocktails while searching for a better understanding of historical American identities. After rifling through history books, and having determined that gunfighters, gamblers, loungers, jazz musicians and bartenders were the only truly American-born identities, he decided to study the trades and wares of the bar, ruling out the others as too dangerous or too poor-making. Years later he married a Russian woman named Mashinka. They traveled to Russia, Armenia, and the Ukraine, visiting family, dining out, and drinking bottles of vodka. In more recent years he has written about spirits and cocktails for Bachelor Pad Magazine, been interviewed for Imbibe Magazine and Dwink.com, participated as a guest mixologist for Zagat’s Mixology Video Series, and acted as consultant for New York venues and events.

Once employed as the head bartender at Raines Law Room (NY), he is now the Quality & Integrity Specialist for Russian Standard Vodka. He teaches seminars on the history of vodka, as well as the history of vodka cocktails in Europe and the Untied States."

He researches and theorizes about vodka at dipsograph.blogspot.com