Sourtoe Cocktail

Calling all artists....are you interested in the no-toe-riety of designing the next Sourtoe Cocktail logo?

The Downtown Hotel is running a contest for the next logo with the winner getting $500 cash, Sourtoe schwag and bragging rights!

Contest runs until January 01, 2022 and is open to people aged 19+. (Valid ID required).Please send your submissions to [email protected] along with your phone number and email address. You can also contact Andrea at the Downtown Hotel for more details at 867 993 5346.

The Downtown Hotel will own the rights to the winning original art and reserves the right to modify if needed.

Thanks and good luck!

With the recent announcement from Yukon Government today, the serving of the Sourtoe Cocktail is being put on hold. The health and safety of our Dawson City community is our primary concern and while we feel our process for serving the toe is safe, we want to minimize the risk to our captains, bar staff and greater community.

Thank you for your understanding. ❤️🦶🥃

The sourtoe is being served again! Available every night from 9-10pm.

We ask that if you're coming to do the toe, please see the bartender to be seated and wait until you're called to the toe table by the captain. Please practice social distancing and follow the bartender and toe captains instructions. Thanks!

The Sourtoe Cocktail has been a rite of passage for visitors to Dawson since 1973. Consumption of alcohol can increase your risk of forgetting to follow the Safe Six, and can also cause serious long-term health conditions.
Learn more:https://www.ccsa.ca/sites/default/files/2019-09/2012-Canada-Low-Risk-Alcohol-Drinking-Guidelines-Brochure-en.pdf

Toes, ashes of Sourtoe Cocktail founder headed for Dawson City saloon Dick Stevenson, the former Dawson City, Yukon, bartender known by his nickname Captain Dick, died last week, but his daughter said Sunday his spirit will live on as long as Sourtoe Cocktails are being served

I wrote a profile piece on Capt. Dick Stevenson several years ago that involved interviewing him in his apartment. On his living-room wall, framed by two hand-carved canes, was a painting heralding the Arctic Brotherhood motto, which served as both an announcement of his character and an augury for our conversation: “No Boundary Line Here.”

I still have the recording from that interview. It produced more unprintable tales than it did ones appropriate for the family-oriented magazine I was writing for. But during my afternoon with Dick, he also shared several fascinating stories of a Dawson that doesn’t exist any more and as succinct a quote as any about how he lived his life (and a philosophy we’d all be smart to observe): “While I live, let me live.”

(The piece also featured one of the most illustrative photos that has ever accompanied a story--this one here, by Cathie Archbould.)

R.I.P. Sourtoe Cocktail Club member number one.

Captain Dick Stevenson, inventor of Yukon's infamous 'Sourtoe Cocktail,' has died | CBC News Captain Dick Stevenson, a true Yukon original who 'invented' one of the territory's oddest claims to fame — a drink with a severed human toe in it — has died.

A cocktail with a mummified human toe in it?! It exists at this Canadian saloon The Sourtoe Cocktail, served at a Canadian saloon, has a special ingredient: a mummified human toe. A drinker said the toe 'was like a greasy raisin.'