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What Prohibition Did to the Drink
The thirteen dry years did not stop Americans from drinking. They changed what was in the glass, who was mixing it, and where the good bartenders went.
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Where these drinks came from, and who we have to thank or blame.
The thirteen dry years did not stop Americans from drinking. They changed what was in the glass, who was mixing it, and where the good bartenders went.
Nobody invented it, because it was the original drink the word "cocktail" named. The name came later, when people started asking for the simple build the old-fashioned way.
The first printed definition is older and stranger than you think, and nobody agrees on where the word came from. That is what makes it fun.