Today’s clever cocktail is a blast from the past. The Singapore Sling was invented at the Raffles Hotel in Singapore by Ngiam Tong Boon in the early 1900’s. It is a tall, fruity, refreshing drink that many of us remember …
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Monticello Cocktail
Today’s clever cocktail comes to us from The 12 Bottle Bar book by David and Leslie Solmonson. It is a drink that the authors created based on America’s first home-grown whiskey, Rye. In 1797 George Washington constructed a distillery on …
The D’Artagnan
Charles Ogier de Batz de Castelmore, Comte D’Artagnan was a real-life character from the Gascony region of France who served as Captain of the Musketeers for Louis XIV. In 1840 his life was immortalized by Alexandre Dumas in The Three …
Trafalgar Cocktail
On October 21st of 1805 Admiral Lord Nelson was outnumbered by the combined fleets of the French and Spanish navies off of the southwest coast of Spain near Cape Trafalgar. Under his brilliant leadership 27 British ships defeated a combined …
