September, 2018 - Ellen Richards - Mead-Hattan

Ellen Swallow Richards (1842-1911) 

Born in Dunstable, MA, an only child, and was home schooled until the family moved to Westford in 1859. Her gift with Latin, French, and German made her in demand and allowed her to further her studies. She enrolled at Vassar College as a “special student” in 1868, graduating 2 years later with her bachelors, followed by a Masters by 1870. She was the one of the first women to break into the world of chemistry, and the first woman to attend MIT. She also worked as an unpaid chemistry lecturer at MIT from 1873-1878. Her passion became environmental nutrition and clean water, gathering 40,000 samples to study water quality in Massachusetts. This led to the development of the “Richards’ Normal Chlorine Map” which was predictive of inland water pollution in MA. She fought continually not only for water purity and her “humanist ecologist” cause, but for women’s equality, arguing that women’s unpaid labor in the home was the foundation of their second-class status and what kept modern capitalism in motion

The Drink

Mead-hattan
2 oz rye
2 oz cyser (a mead made with apple juice, a kind of half-mead/half-cider)
dash orange bitters

Drinkability: 2
Drunkability: 5
Accessibility: 2
Taxic Diversity: 2
Priority for Conservation: 5 

Comments: President and Secretary agree that for a Manhattan, it's a 5+, Opal Hush added a dash of leftover honey syrup to hers and said it was much more to her liking. 

From "Women in Conservation" hosted by Alabazam and Boiler Maker

May 2015 - Anna Rose Napravnik - Kentucky Flyer

Anna Rose “Rosie” Napravnik

Born in 1988, began her career in 2005, and has regularly been ranked among the top jockeys in North America in both earnings and total races won.  She won the Louisiana Derby for the first time in 2011, and finished 9^th in the 2011 Kentucky Derby aboard Pants on Fire.  In 2012, she broke the total wins and earnings record previously held by Julie Krone, in the process becoming the first woman rider to win the Kentucky Oaks, aboard Believe You Can, and winning it again in 2014 aboard Untapable.  As of 2013, she has been in the top 10 for two years in a row, and is the highest-ranking woman jockey in North America.  She is only the second woman to win a Breeders’ Cup race, and the first to win more than one, having won both the 2012 Juvenile aboard Shanghai Bobby, and Distaff race aboard Untapable.  Her 5^th place finish in the 2013 Kentucky Derby and 3^rd place in the following Preakness on Mylute are the best finishes for a woman jocket in those two Triple Crown races to date, and she is the only woman to have riden in all three Triple Crown races.  As of 2014, she announced her pregnancy and “indefinite retirement” – she continues to assist her husband, a horse trainer, Joe Sharp, in training race horses in their homes in Louisville, KY and New Orleans, LA. 

The Drink:

Kentucky Flyer

2 oz rye whiskey

.75 oz luxardo maraschino

.5 oz lemon juice

1 fresh mint leaf

Drinkability:  3
Drunkability:  3 - 4
Taxic Diversity:  3
Accessibility:  3
Priority for Conservation:  3

Comments: (hard to gauge drunkability when already drunk going in)

From "Women Jockeys" hosted by Alabazam

January, 2015 - Rosalind Franklin - The Good Doctor

Rosalind Franklin - July 25, 1920 - April 16, 1958

The structure of the DNA was discovered in the early months of 1953.  Nine years later, three men were jointly awarded a Nobel Prize for this achievement, which has proved to be one of the most consequential in the history of science.  James Watson and Francis Crick, who worked at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England, came up with the famous double-helix structure.  The third man honored, Maurice Wilkins, was a scientist in London; although he worked at a rival lab, he did make available to Watson and Crick some of the experimental evidence that helped them clinch their discovery.  BUT - the person actually responsible for this evidence was not Wilkins but a colleague of his named Rosalind Franklin, who had died four years before the prize was awarded.

Franklin is best known for her work on the X-ray diffraction images of DNA, which led to the discovery of the DNA double helix.  According to Francis Crick, her data and research were key in determining the structure.  Franklin's image of X-ray diffraction, confirming the helical structure of DNA, were shown to Watson without her approval or knowledge by Wilkins.  This image provided valuable insight into the DNA structure, but Franklin's scientific contributions to the discovery of the double helix are often overlooked.  Neither Watson nor Crick ever admitted to Franklin that they had relied crucially on her research; neither so much as mentioned her in his Nobel acceptance speech.

After finishing her portion of the work on DNA, Franklin led pineering work on the tobacco mosaic virus and the polio virus.  She died in 1958 at the age of 37 of ovarian cancer.

The Drink

The Good Doctor

1.5 oz Amaro
1.5 oz rye whiskey
6 oz Dr. Pepper

Drinkability: 0
Drunkability:  3
Taxic Diversity:  N/A
Accessibility:  3
Priority for Conservation:  0

Comments:  "This drink is TERRIBLE! NOOOOOOOO"

From "Forgotten Women" hosted by CZ

March, 2013 - Medusa - Diamond Back

Medusa

If you need it, WIKI it.

The Drink:

The Diamond Back

1.5 measures Rye Whiskey
1/2 measure Green Chartreuse
3/4 measure Apple Brandy

Drinkability: 1
Drunkability: 4
Taxic Diversity - 4
Accessibility: 3
Priority for Conservation: 2

Comments: "sipping, more than before and not as enjoyable as #1," "herbal, from the chartreuse? we are all very confused by this one."

From "Women of Mythology" hosted by MW

October, 2012 - Ward 8

Ward 8

2 ounces bourbon or rye whiskey

3/4 ounce lemon juice

3/4 ounce simple syrup

Dash of grenadine

Orange slice and maraschino cherry for garnish

Drinkability: 3
Drunkability: 2-3
Taxic Diversity: 2
Accessibility: 3
Priority for Conservation: 3

Comments: "cough syrup-y from the grenadine"

From Women in Congress hosted by BoilerMaker

May, 2012 - Morning, Teacher

Morning, Teacher

1 oz bourbon or rye
3/4 oz brandy
2 dashes aromatic bitters
1/4 oz pastis or anisette
1/4 oz orange curacao
1/4 tsp sugar

Drinkability: 3
Drunkability: 5
Taxic Diversity: 4
Accessibility: 3
Priority for Conservation: 3

Comments:  "sipper but no burning - no mixers!"

From untitled meeting hosted by SilkStocking

July, 2005 - She Blinded Me With Science - TNT

TNT
1/2 Rye Whiskey
1/2 Absinthe

Comments: This drink is repulsive.
LBP: Can we rate this right now ’cause I got shit to say.
SS: The taste won’t leave my mouth. It’s burning, it’s burning!
LR: I am instantaneously drunker.
FR: Well, it’s not that bad … (later – coughs several times) I took a bigger sip that time.
LBP: It’s like a flaming genital down your throat, yet with a worse aftermath.

featured at: She Blinded Me With Science (hosted by Brazen Hussy)

Pre-2008 - Ball Buster

The Ball Buster
2 oz. Beer
1 Splash Grenadine
1 oz. Amaretto
1 oz. Rye
2 cups Cola

Drinkability: 5
Drunkability: 2.5
Taxic Diversity: 2.5
Accessibility: 3
Priority for Conservation: 4.5

Comments: I don’t hate the beer drink! – OH

Pre-2008 - Manhattan

Manhattan 
5cl Rye
2cl Sweet red vermouth
Dash Angostura bitters
Maraschino cherry (Garnish)

featured at the Indiana party hosted by FR