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How a hard-drinking nation curbed its alcohol use | Dispatch
A younger generation now has a major force in Russian politics and culture, and they're changing the country's relationship with alcohol. The nation once held the dubious title of one of the world's hardest-drinking nations, but Russia...
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Short - White Lady
The White Lady is a short, ghostly drink designed for consumption by one whose face doesn’t scrunch up to raisin levels of frowning when greeted with a sour taste. It’s a citrus blast, with lemon and triple sec conspiring with gin to...
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Short - Merry Pickford
A Mary Pickford is a Prohibition Era cocktail made with white rum, fresh pineapple juice, grenadine, and Maraschino liqueur. It is served shaken and chilled, often with a Maraschino cherry. Named for Canadian-American film actress Mary...
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Short - Broken Bronx
The Bronx Cocktail is essentially a Perfect Martini with orange juice added. It was ranked number three in "The World's 10 Most Famous Cocktails in 1934",[1] making it a very popular rival to the Martini (#1) and the Manhattan (#2)....
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Short - Corpse Reviver #2
Popularized by the 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book by Harry Craddock, this classic cocktail is part of a succession of "Corpse Revivers" originally devised as a hangover cure. An ice-cold nip of this elixir is refreshing, astringent, and strong...
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Short - Martinez
The Martinez is a cocktail that any classic drink connoisseur will definitely want to note. Who knows, it may even become a new favorite!
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Short - Plum sour
The plum sour was created to complement the modern Chinese cuisine served at chic Hakkasan Beverly Hills. This tart libation combines woodsy Japanese whiskey, tangy fresh-squeezed lemon juice, aromatic plum liqueur and pleasingly sweet...
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Short - Singapore Sling
The Singapore Sling is a gin-based cocktail from Singapore. This long drink was developed sometime before 1915 by Ngiam Tong Boon, a Hainanese bartender working at the Long Bar in Raffles Hotel, Singapore. It was initially called the gin...
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Short - White Martinez
In the 1880s, Old Tom gin, a style with quite a bit more sweetness than London dry, was just beginning to gain popularity in America. This is the drink that put it over the top.
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Short - French 75
French 75 is a cocktail made from gin, Champagne, lemon juice, and sugar. It is also called a 75 Cocktail, or in French simply a Soixante Quinze (Seventy Five). The drink dates to World War I, and an early form was created in 1915 at the...
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Short - Last Word
Equal parts gin, chartreuse, maraschino liqueur, and fresh lime juice, this is an old-fashioned cocktail that feels awfully modern. Its equally-portioned ingredients make for easy scaling: mix up a triple or quadruple batch to serve...
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Short - Breakfast Martini
This now world famous drink was created in 1996 by bartender, raconteur and long term President of the United Kingdom Bartender’s Guild, Salvatore Calabrese.
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Short - Cardinale
The creation of this Negroni-like drink is credited to the Excelsior Hotel in Rome or Harry's Bar in Venice sometime in the 1930s.
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Short - 20th Century cocktail
The 20th Century is a cocktail created in 1937 by a British bartender named C.A. Tuck, and named in honor of the celebrated Twentieth Century Limited train which ran between New York City and Chicago from 1902 until 1967. The recipe was...
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Short - Mai Tai
The Mai Tai is an alcoholic cocktail based on rum, Curaçao liqueur, orgeat syrup, and lime juice, associated with Polynesian-style settings. "Maita'i" is the Tahitian word for "good"; but the drink is spelled as two words, sometimes...
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Short - Cobras Fang
Until recently, fassionola syrup, which was used in many old Tiki drinks including the Hurricane, was lost to the past. The Jonathan English Company bottled it in the 1950s, and modern bartenders have either created house-made versions...
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Short - Negroni
When it comes to a classic drink to enjoy before a meal, few will satisfy your palate quite like the famous Negroni. It is a simple and sophisticated aperitif featuring gin and Campari and you will find it to be the perfect addition to...
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Short - Zombie
The Zombie is a cocktail made of fruit juices, liqueurs, and various rums. It first appeared in late 1934, invented by Donn Beach (formerly Ernest Raymond Beaumont-Gannt) of Hollywood's Don the Beachcomber restaurant.[1] It was...
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Short - Planter's punch
Planter's Punch is an IBA Official Cocktail made of dark rum, several juices, grenadine syrup, sugar syrup, and Angostura bitters. The cocktail has been said to have originated at the Planters Hotel in Charleston, SC.
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Short - Mojito
Mojito is a traditional Cuban highball. Traditionally, a mojito is a cocktail that consists of five ingredients: white rum, sugar (traditionally sugar cane juice), lime juice, soda water, and mint. The original Cuban recipe uses...
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Short - Clover Club
The Clover Club Cocktail is a cocktail consisting of Gin, Lemon Juice, Raspberry Syrup, and an egg white. The egg white is not added for the purpose of giving the drink flavor, but rather acts as an emulsifier. Thus when the drink is...
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Short - Pasadena
This drink is uber refreshing from the squeeze of fresh lemon and grapefruit juice but also sweet and floral because of the St Germain which is an elderflower liqueur. Torn and shaken basil adds another sweet note as well.
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Short - Suffering Bastard
The original name for this drink was apparently the Suffering Bar Steward as created by Joe Scialom at the Long Bar at the Shepheard Hotel in Cairo Egypt (from 1937 to 1952). But as one might expect in a noisy bar after a few drinks, the...
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Short - Southside
A South Side or Southside is an alcoholic beverage made with gin, lime juice, simple syrup and mint. A variant, the Southside Fizz, adds soda water.