Eric Alperin
Eric Alperin hails from New York, but has made his name at some of L.A.’s best bars. He runs the Varnish, and created the cocktail menu at Cole’s Red Car Bar. He’s also famous for a concoction known as the Pickled Pig – which combines bacon and gin. Before speaking on our panel and mixing Gin Fixes at Jonathan Gold’s Union Station Cocktail Party, he told us more about himself, and his latest cocktail invention.
Q. What music have you listened to today?
A. I was listening to Tupac Shakur’s “Death Around …