The Champagne Cocktail Shares the Same Origin Story as the Old Fashioned

The Old Fashioned and the Champagne Cocktail seem like drinks on opposite ends of the sipping spectrum. The first is boozy, ...
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175+ Halloween Drink Name Ideas for Your Fall Fright Fest

What's in a name? That which we call a cocktail by any other name would be just as spooky (to paraphrase Shakespeare). Or would it? Sure, dropping a gummy eyeball in Halloween cocktail is going to ...
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Explaining The Kangaroo Kicker, The Forgotten Cocktail That Was Inspired By WWII

In 1943, Oscar Haimo's novel "Cocktail Digest" introduced a curious rebranding of the classic vodka martini as the kangaroo kicker. This transition wasn't just a simple name change — it was a cocktail ...
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Origin of mixed drink names

(WYTV) — Here is the origin of some drink names. “Cocktail:” The word may come from the French word coquetier which means ...
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This Cocktail Name Was Originally Meant to Shame Drinkers

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. If the word 'Scofflaw' was created to shame the booze hounds who defied prohibition, it backfired pretty spectacularly. So much so that bartenders ...