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  • 2 weeks ago | punchdrink.com | Al Culliton

    On August 9, 1902, King Edward VII of England was crowned at Westminster Abbey. One year later, Joseph Rose, a bartender at Murray Brothers’ Café in Newark, New Jersey, paid homage to the royal event with his Coronation Cocktail. The mixture of French vermouth, dry sherry, maraschino liqueur and orange bitters won the Police Gazette Bartenders’ Contest in 1903; as a result, the recipe was published in the Hoffman House Bartender’s Guide in 1905.

  • 1 month ago | punchdrink.com | Al Culliton

    Way back in 1900, there was a hot new musical playing on Broadway: Florodora. The production had been such a hit in London the year before that it made its way to Broadway. The show became known for its attractive cast, particularly the “Florodora Sextette,” a rotating group of six actresses that figured heavily in the show.

  • 1 month ago | punchdrink.com | Al Culliton

    Every day at Whoopsie’s in Atlanta, the bartender on duty makes a selection from the annals of cocktail history to serve as the drink of the day. Each featured recipe is then recorded in a big Moleskine book, into which co-owner Tim Faulkner has been entering drinks for 15 years. The book serves as both an archive of the recipes and an easy way for any Whoopsie’s bartender to recreate a previously featured drink for customers who come in asking for one.

  • 1 month ago | punchdrink.com | Al Culliton

    When it comes to the tropical canon, rum is by far the preeminent spirit. Though it’s not the only spirit used in such drinks, the bar team at Tern Club in Knoxville, Tennessee, which leans on tropical classics, is always on the hunt for recipes that show “a different spirit profile,” according to Jocelyn Morin, the bar’s co-owner. The fruit of one such hunt was the Tropical Itch.

  • 2 months ago | punchdrink.com | Al Culliton

    It seems that all the major literary circles of the early 20th century were awash with cocktails. There were little cliques of writers, journalists and entertainers that would haunt the same clubs, hotels and restaurants, putting back a never-ending string of drinks between deadlines. And like Hollywood and Broadway before it, many figures from this milieu lent their name to a cocktail or two. But in some cases, multiple names were attached to the same mixture.