Rina Addison

Aug 22, 2023 | oldliquorsmagazine.com | Rina Addison

As with all cocktail history, it seems, tracing or verifying the exact origin story of a spirit or concoction is a little difficult—a little fuzzy, one could say. By no means, an exception to this rule is the Sazerac, the ultimate bitter cocktail classic, which was branded as the United States’ first official cocktail around the 1850s.

Jun 27, 2023 | oldliquorsmagazine.com | Rina Addison

Death in the Afternoon (1932) was also the name of one of Hemingway’s many famous, timeless novels—though, depending on who you ask, it’s hard to say which “death in the afternoon” is now more well-known. Of Books and BoozeErnest Hemingway loved drinking as much as he did writing. While he wouldn’t necessarily drink while writing (“the only time (drinking) isn’t good for you is when you write or when you fight”), he’d often pen his passion for the world of spirits.