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Guillermo Toro-Lira

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    September 20, 2011

    Cocktail Week Events for Tuesday, Sept. 20

    Lou BustamanteKicking off Cocktail Week inside Anchor Brewery and Distillery​After a kickoff night Monday with perfect weather, and more people wanting to attend than there were tickets to be had, San Francisco Cocktail Week continues today with a much broader schedule. Tonight's festivities ... More >>

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    December 6, 2010

    Local Pisco Expert Signs Books, Gets Wonky at Pisco Latin Lounge

    Guillermo Toro-Lira has penned a history of Peruvian brandy in California.​Every movement needs a historian, someone who can frame events with the trajectory of inevitability. For Barbary Coast cocktail cultists, that historian is Lima-born Guillermo Toro-Lira. Like some early Christian saint, ... More >>

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    June 24, 2010

    Thankfully, Tuesday's Classes on Pisco and Tequila Come with Samples

    ​Next Tuesday, apparently, is booze-school day in San Francisco:That night, the San Francisco History Association is hosting a lecture by Guillermo Toro-Lira, author of Wings of Cherubs: The Saga of the Rediscovery of Pisco Punch, who will talk about the city's centuries-old affection for pisco, ... More >>

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    May 26, 2009

    Pisco Latin Lounge's Self-Styled 'Cocktail Historian' Curates an Indigenous Guzzler

    Jason via FlickrThe Pisco Punch at Pisco Latin Lounge: The real deal, for better or worseGuillermo Toro-Lira is pretty much obsessed. It's no coincidence that the Peruvian-born, self-styled "cocktail historian" once wrote a novel about a couple who were (surprise) obsessed with sussing out the origi ... More >>

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