{"id":145186,"date":"2024-11-21T05:51:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=145186"},"modified":"2024-11-20T20:35:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T02:35:03","slug":"know-your-bartender-john-mcgee-at-booths-bbq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/know-your-bartender-john-mcgee-at-booths-bbq\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Bartender: John McGee at Booth&#8217;s BBQ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">by Phoebe Cramer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hometown:<\/strong> Memphis, Tenn., and I\u2019ve lived in 30A, Florida. on and off for the past five years<br><strong>Zodiac sign:<\/strong> Scorpio<br><strong>Are you a student?<\/strong> Yes, I graduate in the spring of 2025 as an IMC major<br><strong>What are your specialties?<\/strong> I love doing Old Fashioneds, Paper Planes, and especially my Espresso Martinis<br><strong>What is your most essential bar tool? <\/strong>Boston shakers for sure, because they are the most essential tool for creating a classic cocktail<br><strong>Most craved mid-shift snack:<\/strong> Parm Crisps with our barbeque sauce on top and our Peach Cobbler<br><strong>Who is the most famous customer you\u2019ve served?<\/strong> Thomas Rhett\u2014I gave him a six pack when he moved into his place in Florida<br><strong>What\u2019s on your favorite playlist right now?<\/strong> Right now I\u2019m listening to a lot of old school songs that are remixed such as Fly by Quavo and Lenny Kravitz<br><strong>What\u2019s the best movie you\u2019ve seen lately?<\/strong> <em>Hunger Games<\/em>, my roommates made me obsessed, and Katniss has become my spirit animal<br><strong>What is your favorite sport &amp; team?<\/strong> Ole Miss Football. I know that\u2019s a generic answer, but I grew up as a fan. My dad came here and made me a fan as well.<br><strong>What is your favorite bar in the world?<\/strong> Shades, which is a popular, more upscale sports bar down in 30A. I have so many memories with my \u201cchosen family\u201d there and with my coworkers there after my other bartending job.<br><strong>Tell us about your most memorable night in Oxford:<\/strong> My sophomore year after Friday exams in the fall, me and my roommates went out and had the best time at Rooster\u2019s and had no worries of school.<br><strong>What\u2019s the best artist you\u2019ve ever seen in Oxford?<\/strong> Lauren Watkins, I\u2019ve always loved her, she performed a set at Proud Larry\u2019s and sang a song with Hardy in the Vaught<br><strong>What do you like best about living in Oxford?<\/strong> Growing up in the Memphis area I\u2019m used to bigger cities, but Oxford carries a small-town vibe with family-owned businesses but also plenty of the amenities of a larger city as well.<br><strong>Who is your all-time favorite Rebel?<\/strong> Matt Coral, he brought our Ole Miss football team back to our standard.<br><strong>Where\u2019s your favorite place to go on a road trip?<\/strong> 30A, I\u2019ve been fortunate to have a house down there and it never gets old.<br><strong>If you could have a drink with someone, who would it be? And what would you be pouring?<\/strong> Country Music Star, Hardy, and I would pour up some shots of Four Roses and have a case of Busch Light for us to share<br><strong>Where do you hope to be in 10 years? <\/strong>I would love to be a liquor representative or work for Red Bull in sales of some kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Cinnabourbon-drink-of-the-monht.jpg?resize=480%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-145187 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Cinnabourbon-drink-of-the-monht.jpg?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Cinnabourbon-drink-of-the-monht.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Drink of the Month: CinnaBourbon Old Fashioned<br>(Booth&#8217;s BBQ)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What inspired this drink? <\/strong>I just wanted to make something very fall inspired and when I think of fall in a sense of food and drink, I think of Bourbon, brown sugar, and cinnamon. It is our featured cocktail for the fall.<br><br><strong>What does the drink consist of? <\/strong>Texas blended whiskey, a house made brown sugar cinnamon simple syrup, and orange bitters<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Phoebe Cramer Hometown: Memphis, Tenn., and I\u2019ve lived in 30A, Florida. on and off for the past<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":145188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[30765,541,5,7067,4,3,655],"class_list":["post-145186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bartenders","tag-booths-bbq","tag-know-your-bartender","tag-mississippi","tag-ole-miss","tag-oxford","tag-the-local-voice","tag-university-of-mississippi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/John-McGee-Booths-crop.jpg?fit=360%2C341&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145186"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145217,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145186\/revisions\/145217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}