Because its cool !!!
Well, cold actually, but cool because your drink doesn’t get as watered down and its visually stunning as you can see in the glass above. No longer on the rocks, its just one massive stone cold boulder of frozen H2O.
The Ampersand cocktail is a classic mixed drink recipe with brandy, gin, sweet vermouth, orange liqueur & orange bitters which was first published in the Old Waldorf Bar Days book by Albert Stevens Crockett in 1931. Little else is known about the history of the Ampersand cocktail. However, some speculate the name may be derived from the ampersand in between Martini & Rossi, a popular brand of vermouth which is one of the cocktail’s ingredients. There appears to be nothing to support that theory as of yet though.
Made entirely from distilled spirits & fortified wine with no sweet or sour mixers, its a sneaky sip that doesn’t seem that strong, but is. One too many Ampersand cocktails and you may end up slurring your words, much like this drink’s name* which garbles “and per se and” all together into the once slang and now commonplace single word, ampersand. Would make a good joke lead in for a sober punchline.
The Alaskan Polar Bear Heater is a fictional cocktail ordered by Buddy Love in the 1963 film The Nutty Professor.* Except for the vinegar, its five different liquors plus vermouth might remind you of a Long Island Iced Tea with its 4 liquors and a liqueur in its recipe.
It truly is one of those signature drinks in the movies that you automatically associate with the film. And that’s where the Alaskan Polar Bear Heater should stay too. There’s no place at your home bar for this bucket of booze. Besides, you’re probably still trying to get the vinegar taste out of your mouth from the Pickle Back you had on St. Patrick’s Day anyway.
The Corpse Reviver is a timeless tipple meant to heal that self inflicted wound known as the hangover by having some of the hair of the dog that bit you. First published in The Gentleman’s Table Guide by E. Ricket & C. Thomas in 1871, it truly became a classic cocktail when arguably its most famous recipe formulation, Corpse Reviver #2, was included in the 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book.*
While the Corpse Reviver #2 deserves a place on your drinks menu for taste alone, it may be the notes author and bartender Harry Craddock added to the bottom of each these two hangover remedies that helped extend their notoriety decades later. Although neither could be considered popular by any means, they have lived a librating life-cycle in the limelight, where the cocktail has become a corpse as a crowd pleaser only to be revived back from the dead a time or two.
After all this time it seems pretty doubtful the Corpse Reviver will ever achieve widespread acceptance as a brunch drink like the Mimosa or Bloody Mary. However, that’s really not reason enough to banish this cocktail to only to be prepared in case of a hangover either.
With a macabre moniker like Corpse Reviver, the obvious choice may be as a Halloween themed drink to pair up with a Zombie Cocktail. After all, a Zombie is an animated corpse revived back to life using mystical powers such as witchcraft. You’ll think of other more festive occasions as well.
Careful though. These are both strong drinks and too many will have you haunted with a hangover they both were meant to remedy. Its a vicious cycle that only moderation will cure.
The Godfather is an official International Bartender’s Association cocktail. Its a simple two part drink composed of scotch whisky and almond flavored liqueur that the IBA lists in the sweet after-dinner category along with the Brandy Alexander, the Golden Cadillac and the Porto Flip among others.
Bar spoons are the most basic of bartending tools and essential starting equipment for your home bar. They’re typically just a teaspoon attached to a long twisted handle, although some are fairly ornate and may have handle ends designed for additional uses.
Drinking a Duck Fart cocktail made with three equal parts coffee liqueur, Irish cream and a blended Canadian whisky layered on top of each other doesn’t usually cause you to want to blow a raspberry, make a Bronx cheer or let out a fart noise. Butt [sic] apparently the first person ever served one feigned flatulence and its been repeated, repeatedly, ever since.
The Will Rogers cocktail is a namesake drink with gin, vermouth, orange juice and curacao. Once voted America’s most popular actor, the Will Rogers drink recipe had already been published in the 1930 Savoy cocktail book before his tragic 1935 death in an airplane crash at the age of 55.
In addition to acting in 48 silent films and 21 movies with sound, the cowboy philosopher started in show business performing twirling rope tricks along with a pony act in Texas Jack’s Wild West Circus. This led to extended stints in Vaudeville and the Ziegfeld Follies where he introduced satire into the mix and Will Rogers transformed himself from the “Ropin’ Fool” to the “Talkin’ Fool”.
While the “end of my rope” is where Will Rogers would say he drinks up early success, political cocktails and talkies propelled him to worldwide fame. His humorous anecdotes and commentary on politics, news of the day and matters of the heart onstage turned into books and a syndicated column for the New York Times and frequent postings in other major newspapers and magazines like the Saturday Evening Post.
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