The Berkshire Room Debuts New Winter Cocktail & Bar Snacks Menu Tonight

The Berkshire Room - a craft cocktail lounge from The Fifty/50 Restaurant Group beverage director Benjamin Schiller located at 15 East Ohio Street inside the ACME Hotel Company in River North - will debut a new winter cocktail menu and an overhauled bar snacks menu starting at 4pm today.

Schiller and head bartender Luke Andrews have created six new house cocktails (all $12 each) that will join mainstay "The Weston". Two of the new house cocktails are "Workers On The Tracks Ahead" (Rye, Yellow Chartreuse, Dry Curacao, Orange Oil served in a rocks glass over a large piece of carved ice) and "Kung Fu Grip" (Rum, Amer Bigallet, Lemon, Grapefruit served up in a coupe glass).

There is one new barrel-finished cocktail joining the five other barrel-finished cocktails on the new winter menu - a Brooklyn made with Rye, Amer Bigallet, Maraschino, and Dry Vermouth that's finished in a Four Roses OBSV bourbon barrel. All barrel-finished cocktails are $15 each.

Schiller's wine and craft beer selections also received an update on its winter menu.

The Berkshire Room executive chef Chris "Chip" Davies has changed about half of the savory upscale bar snacks menu. Menu highlights include: PICKLED SQUASH SLIDER with radish-celery slaw & mustard aioli on a potato bun; DUCK CONFIT & SWEET POTATO CROQUETTES with apple butter; PHEASANT POT PIE with parsnips & house buttermilk biscuit; and CHICKEN FRIED SWEETBREADS with bacon aioli, fried Brussels sprouts & Pecorino.

The Berkshire Room executive pastry chef Chris "Tex" Teixeira has overhauled the entire dessert menu for winter that features chocolate caramel corn, assorted chocolate truffles, assorted macarons, and palmiers.

Schiller will conduct a private antique whiskey tasting and discussion at 2pm on Saturday, January 31. Schiller will go over the history of the distilleries and what makes each of the extremely rare whiskies special. All guests will receive one oz pours of each of the following rare whiskies.

• 1938 Old Grand Dad

• 1942 Mount Vernon Rye

• 1950 Old Forester Bonded

• 1950s Stitzel Weller Old Fitzgerald 8 Year Old

There are only 11 seats available to the public for sale for $100 each for the antique whiskey tasting and discussion. Those interested in purchasing tickets must email info@theberkshireroom.com to reserve their seats. One seat will be given away for free via The Berkshire Room's social media accounts (https://www.facebook.com/TheBerkshireRoom, https://twitter.com/BerkshireRoom, andhttp://instagram.com/theberkshireroom) in the next week.

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