PRESENT

An Exhibition of Whiskey, Art and Imagination

Five framed artworks from the Museum of Flaviar exhibition

Beacon Grand, San Francisco

October 9 - December 31, 2026

Welcome to the Museum of Flaviar

Where art and whiskey meet

The Post Room at Beacon Grand and Flaviar come together for a curated exploration of whiskey, art, and craftsmanship, brought to life through a unique exhibition and tasting experience.

The Museum of Flaviar brings together two disciplines shaped by vision, patience and craft. Artists consider composition, balance, contrast and emotion. Whiskey makers work with grain, wood, time and place to create many of those same qualities in liquid form. Both transform carefully chosen materials into something capable of telling a larger story.

Across 15 original works, the exhibition places whiskey inside the visual language of celebrated artworks and movements. Some references may be immediately recognizable; others reveal themselves more gradually. Each piece invites visitors to reconsider a familiar image through a new lens - one informed by the personality, rituals and sensory world of whiskey.

The result is playful but purposeful: a collection celebrating the connections between what we see, what we taste and what we remember.

The Collection

1.)

A Measure of Character

A Measure of CharacterWoodinville Straight Bourbon Whiskey, Aged 6 Years

A Measure of Character

After Piero della Francesca’s portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino

Two figures face one another across a divided landscape, raising their glasses in a toast that bridges distance, place and time. The symmetry and stillness of Early Renaissance portraiture remain, but ceremony gives way to conviviality.

2.)

The Curious Dram

The Curious DramColumbia Creek Tennessee Whiskey

The Curious Dram

In the tradition of European animal portraiture

The noble animal portrait is treated here with a wink. Rendered with the dignity and quiet attention once reserved for prized horses and household companions, the donkey becomes an unlikely connoisseur, gently holding a glass of whiskey. Its elongated form and contemplative expression lend the scene both humor and restraint.

3.)

The First Pour

The First PourHand Barrel Small Batch Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey

The First Pour

After Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam

One of art history’s most recognizable gestures is transformed into a moment of shared celebration. Instead of fingertips reaching across the divide, two hands extend glasses of whiskey toward one another. The near-contact preserves the original composition’s tension while replacing divine creation with human connection.

4.)

Spirit in Motion

Spirit in MotionKeeper’s Heart Irish + American 110 Proof

Spirit in Motion

After The Skating Minister, attributed to Sir Henry Raeburn

A poised skater glides across a dark, wintry landscape, carrying a dram with seemingly effortless control. The composition borrows the elegance and motion of The Skating Minister while recasting its familiar figure with a contemporary, spirited confidence.

5.)

Keepers of the Spirit

Keepers of the SpiritKnobel Tennessee Straight Rye Whiskey

Keepers of the Spirit

After Grant Wood’s American Gothic

Grant Wood’s emblem of American Regionalism is reimagined through the ritual of a well-earned pour. The familiar figures and agricultural setting remain, but the pitchfork has yielded to a glass of rye. The gesture shifts the scene from stern endurance toward quiet pride.

6.)

Reflections in Oak

Reflections in OakRedwood Empire Lost Monarch Blended Straight Whiskey

Reflections in Oak

After Claude Monet’s Japanese footbridge paintings at Giverny

Monet’s garden dissolves into light, color and reflection, inviting the eye to wander rather than settle. The bridge remains a familiar anchor, but the experience lies in the atmosphere surrounding it - the layered greens, soft water and shifting surface.

7.)

High Spirits

High SpiritsBreckenridge Rum Cask Finish Whiskey

High Spirits

In the tradition of expressionist alpine painting and vintage ski imagery

Bright color cuts through sharp mountain air as a skier pauses above a vast alpine landscape, flask in hand. Bold tones and textured brushwork heighten the exhilaration of altitude, movement and cold.

8.)

Distilled Geometry

Distilled GeometryBarrell Craft Spirits Foundation Double Barrel Bourbon

Distilled Geometry

Inspired by Cubism

A whiskey barrel is broken into geometric planes and reassembled from shifting points of view. Color, line and perspective refuse to resolve at once; instead, the image asks the viewer to construct the whole from its layered parts.

9.)

The Final Round

The Final RoundFour Roses Small Batch Select Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey

The Final Round

In the tradition of Post-Impressionist still life

A bottle, two glasses and a row of red roses are arranged with deliberate weight against folded white cloth. The familiar vocabulary of still life becomes an intimate scene of anticipation: perhaps a toast about to happen, or the quiet remains of one already shared.

10.)

Barrel & Beast

Barrel & BeastPinhook Cask Strength Straight Bourbon

Barrel & Beast

After the grand equestrian portraits of George Stubbs

A powerful chestnut horse rears above a rolling whiskey barrel, transforming the composed grandeur of traditional equestrian portraiture into a scene of motion and play. The animal is not simply depicted; it becomes a symbol of energy, control and untamed character.

11.)

Born of the Barrel

Born of the BarrelWyoming Whiskey Outryder

Born of the Barrel

After Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus

Botticelli’s Renaissance icon emerges anew in the American West. Venus becomes a self-possessed cowgirl, standing on the shell with whiskey in both hands as classical figures gather around a landscape of open plains, bison and distant mountains. The composition retains its balance and theatrical movement while shifting its mythology westward.

12.)

The Tasting Room

The Tasting RoomMinden Mill American Single Malt

The Tasting Room

After Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp

Rembrandt’s celebrated group portrait is transformed into an investigation of whiskey itself. Gathered figures lean inward as the central lesson moves from the human body to the anatomy of a dram - its structure, layers and component parts. Chiaroscuro gives the scene its psychological weight, carving faces and gestures from shadow.

13.)

The Bottle Collection

The Bottle CollectionBellevoye Grand Cru Cask Finish Triple Malt Whisky

The Bottle Collection

Inspired by Piet Mondrian and De Stijl

Bottles, glasses and citrus are reduced to primary color, black line and geometric order. The bar becomes an abstract composition in which every shape occupies a precise place and each block of color gains meaning through its relationship to the next.

14.)

Last Call

Last CallWhiskey JYPSI Tribute Double Barreled Bourbon

Last Call

After Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks

The luminous late-night isolation of Nighthawks gives way to a bar alive with conversation. Guests gather inside and spill onto the sidewalk, transforming Hopper’s architecture into a contemporary portrait of connection, energy and shared experience.

15.)

Amber Horizon

Amber HorizonFrank August Small Batch Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey

Amber Horizon

Inspired by Mark Rothko and Color Field painting

Broad fields of blue, amber and cream reduce the whiskey experience to color and atmosphere. A pale block suggests ice suspended within the glowing center, while softened edges allow one tone to breathe into the next. The work is less an illustration than a mood: coolness, warmth and quiet tension held in balance.

Continue your

Experience

Enjoy the whiskeys neat or in a Museum of Flaviar-inspired cocktail.

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Art-inspired cocktail menu

Woodinville Espresso Old Fashioned

Inspired by: A Measure of Character

Woodinville Espresso Old Fashioned

Ingredients:

  • 2 oz Woodinville Straight Bourbon whiskey
  • .5 oz crème de cacao
  • 1 oz espresso
  • 2 dash Scrappy's Orange bitters

Method:

  1. Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass or cocktail shaker
  2. Shake or stir and strained to chill and dilute
  3. Strain into a rocks glass over big cube or cold draft cubes
  4. Large orange peel garnish (or get creative, bacon, coffee beans, sidecar espresso and pour at table)
Davy Jones

Inspired by: High Spirits

Davy Jones

Ingredients:

  • 2 oz Breckenridge Rum Cask Finish
  • 1 oz peach/apricot shrub
  • 0.75 oz fresh lemon juice
  • 3 dashes tiki bitters
  • Delicate edible flower, for garnish

Method:

  1. Shake all ingredients with ice.
  2. Strain and serve up.
  3. Optionally, smoke the cocktail before serving. Garnish with a delicate edible flower.

Peach/apricot shrub:

Warm 3 peaches and 2 apricots, then peel the skins. Add 2 cups water, 1.5 cups sugar, 0.5 oz cider vinegar, 0.5 tsp vanilla bean paste, and 0.5 tsp smoked sea salt. Muddle the fruit and stir until the sugar dissolves. Let cool, strain, and refrigerate.

Blood Orange Double Barrel Sour

Inspired by: Distilled Geometry

Blood Orange Double Barrel Sour

Ingredients:

  • 2 oz Foundation Double Barrel Bourbon
  • 1–1.5 oz fresh blood orange juice
  • 0.75 oz fresh lemon juice
  • 0.5 oz simple syrup
  • 1 egg white, optional
  • Blood orange wheel or dehydrated citrus, for garnish

Method:

  1. Combine the bourbon, blood orange juice, lemon juice, simple syrup, and egg white in a cocktail shaker.
  2. Dry shake without ice, then add ice and shake again until well chilled.
  3. Fine strain into a glass over a large ice cube and garnish with a blood orange wheel or dehydrated citrus.
Four Roses Paper Plane

Inspired by: The Final Round

Four Roses Paper Plane

Ingredients:

  • 0.75 oz Four Roses Small Batch
  • 0.75 oz Aperol
  • 0.75 oz Amaro Nonino
  • 0.75 oz fresh lemon juice
  • Expressed lemon peel, for garnish

Method:

  1. Combine all ingredients in a mixing tin with ice.
  2. Shake until well chilled, then double strain into a chilled coupe glass.
  3. Garnish with an expressed lemon peel.
Manhattan

Inspired by: Amber Horizon

Manhattan

Ingredients:

  • 2 oz Frank August Small Batch Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
  • 1 oz sweet vermouth
  • 2 dashes Angostura bitters
  • 1 dash orange bitters
  • Luxardo cherry, for garnish

Method:

  1. Combine the bourbon, sweet vermouth, and bitters in a mixing glass with ice.
  2. Stir until well chilled, then strain into a chilled coupe or Nick & Nora glass.
  3. Garnish with a Luxardo cherry.