Harvard Club of Washington, DC

Many Washington, D.C., residents—like Larz and Isabel Anderson—opposed Prohibition in the 1920s and 1930s. Learn about the capital’s underworld of speakeasies and bootleggers with remarks from Garrett Peck, author of Prohibition in Washington, D.C.: How Dry We Weren’t, and sample Green Hat Gin from New Columbia … Read More<Distillers, the first distillery to open in D.C. since Prohibition.

Reservations required. Participants must be 21 years old or older.

New Columbia Distillers is a family business owned by Michael Lowe AB '71 and his wife, Melissa Kroning, and John Uselton and his wife, Elizabeth Lowe.

John and Michael come to their passion for craft distilling by wearing many hats in the restaurant and liquor business—not to mention the military and legal worlds. From Houston to Boston to Washington, John has worked in all capacities of front-of-house restaurant work—from humble busboy to award-winning bar- tender to savvy manager. Michael spent a couple of years on a Navy submarine and a few more at private DC law firms. He retired from the law in 2008, bought himself several cocktail books and started investigating the art and science of distilling.