Podcasts about forgotten cocktails

From Dapper Dan to the Daily Planet?! L&C graphic designer and all-around design expert Ted Haigh stops by to talk about everything from clearing fake company names to mixing up imaginary Lois & Clark-themed cocktails. Check out Ted's fabulous book, Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails, now in its third edition!

Episode 118 features St. Elizabeth Allspice Dram. Bottled in 750ml at 22.5% ABV, or 45 proof and it retails for about $30.Enjoy this episode with a tiki cocktail using "Pimento Dram" if you like.St. Elizabeth doesn't have standalone brand website, but here's the producer's website: https://alpenz.com/product-allspice.html Brief Historical Timeline:1850s - Pimento Dram is thought to have been invented.1862 - First written reference to Pimento Dram as a commercial product.1900s - Pimento Dram is fairly common, and finds use in Tiki cocktails.1980s - Pimento Dram leaves the US market.2008 - Haus Alpenz creates St. Elizabeth Allspice Dram, bringing Pimento Dram back to the US.Key Cocktails:St. Elizabeth Allspice Dram works in many tiki cocktails, but try this British concoction from 1937, the Lion's Tail.Ingredients:2 oz. Bourbon0.5 oz. of St. Elizabeth Allspice Dram0.5 oz. fresh squeezed lime juice1 teaspoon simple syrup2 dashes Angostura bittersOrange twist Combine ingredients in a shaker with ice, shake until well-chilled, then strain into a coupe or cocktail glass. Express oil from the orange twist over the top of the drink and discard (the twist, not the drink!). References:Book: Vintage Spirits & Forgotten Cocktails by Ted Haigh, copyright 2009 revised edition.Wikipedia Article on AllspiceWikipedia Article on Saint Elizabeth ParishWhat is Pimento Dram by The Spruce Eats2008 Article from the San Francisco Chronicle discussing the launch of St. Elizabeth Allspice Dram2015 New York Times ArticleCocktail Society Article on Allspice DramLiquor.com Article on the Lions Tale CocktailContact Information:Official show website is: www.liquorandliqueurconnoisseur.comJoin my mailing list: http://eepurl.com/hfyhHfFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/liquorandliqueurconnoisseurInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/LiquorandLiqueurConnoisseur/

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Appleton Reserve, Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails, Jasper’s Secret Mix, and 2 rum punches (Jasper’s Jamaican Planter’s Punch and Jasper’s Rum Punch).

    DAY 23 A daily podcast following Doug's self-imposed rehab to quit smoking.  It's the triumphant return of Chad Shank. The kids discuss purple mud bunion, India's rape phenomenon and more. Support the podcast with a donation or purchasing some Stanhope merch.  Recorded Mar 11, 2015 at the Fun House in Bisbee, AZ with Doug Stanhope (@dougstanhope), Chad Shank (@hdfatty), and Ggreg Chaille (@gregchaille). Produced and Edited by Ggreg Chaille. Links- Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails - http://amzn.to/1imiIsc  Intro music "30 Days In The Hole" by Humble Pie. Closing song “Superman's Song” by Crash Test Dummies. Both available on iTunes. 

Initially we all figured that this cocktail history would be a slam dunk. It has a name of a person...it's named after someone. It has to be easy to find out. We couldn't have been more wrong. This drink was a complete mystery. Jay could not find any references to it anywhere prior to our source book from 2009. So we couldn't find the source...and from there we couldn't identify the origin of the name. Looking at the name Barbara West itself, we searched for Barbara Wests of note. There is a Barbara West Titanic survivor. There also is a book with the title of Barbara West. None of these helped to shed light on the origins of the cocktail. This in and of itself is amazing. How does this drink fail to have any sort of background? How did our source book, Ted Haigh's Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails know about this cocktail to be able to list it? We would welcome anybody with some hard sources to share to end this mystery. The ingredients for this drink are: 2 oz – gin 1 oz – sherry 1/2 oz – lemon juice 1 dash – Angostura bitters We all decided that the cocktail was rather ordinary. Quite a bit of lemon with a hit from the sherry, but otherwise like many drinks we've already tried. We spent most of our time at the Brixton this episode discussing names and all of the ins and outs of naming people and pets. I would say one of the key themes we kept returning to throughout the episode is how names, books, movies, etc. that we think are amazing and perfect now may not resonate with culture in the future, so much so that the connotative meaning of an idea or story is completely lost much later. A theory was put forth that such might have been the fate of Barbara West. Is it possible that a cultural sensation got a drink named after it, but then quickly went away and was forgotten completely? Will anybody know or care about Harry Potter in 100 years? or Star Wars? Will 9/11 earn a footnote in the 21st century's historical record? It's hard to know what people will care about in the future.

When we did this episode originally we focused on the Hemingway Daiquiri. In our book "Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails" there is a La Floridita Daiquiri, which apparently was also served at Hemingway's favorite hangout in Cuba, but then we needed to look into the origin of daiquiris in general. Basically a daiquiri is rum, sugar and lime juice and lots of cracked ice. Once again, here is a recipe that is not amazing in itself...it seems kind of obvious especially in Cuba, but it does have a definite origin that we were able to trace back at least circumstantially. It doesn't appear in many cocktail books and the ones that did feature it were later in the era, but we think it traveled to the U.S. just after the Spanish-American War. One of the characters in the story is Jennings Cox, a mining engineer and manager for Bethlehem Steel in the mining town of Daiquiri, Cuba. He arrived in 1897 for mines owned by William Astor Chandler of New York. Both men spent large amounts of time in Cuba and made frequent forays back home to New York and Jay discovered a news article from 1914 that described the bartender at the Hotel Astor was serving daiquiris. The challenge we had in accepting this story outright is that no Cuban cocktail books feature this drink until 1915, which is strange that it appears potentially in 1902 in the U.S. but isn't put in print in Cuba until 15 years later. We think the daiquiri was a popular drink in Cuba long before Cox and Chandler were there and it was slowly making its way to the U.S.; Cox and Chandler sped up its arrival and made it a popular cocktail in New York as they were seen ordering it. We aren't sure of this version, but based on the dates and publications and what we've seen with other cocktails this is our guess. The La Florida was Ernest Hemingway's favorite bar in Cuba and it features the La Floridita Daiquiri. Hemingway's version of that daiquiri was a double...less sugar, more rum. The popular story of Hemingway's love for his daiquiris tells of him drinking a dozen in one night. The rest of the show goes into much more depth of Hemingway's life and his time in Cuba where he worked secretly for the U.S. government hunting German submarines in the Caribbean. Here is the recipe for the La Floridita Daiquiri: 2 oz rum juice of 1/2 of a lime 1 teaspoon of sugar 1 teaspoon of maraschino By and large the Black Liver team all considered the daiquiri a fruity, fancy drink being more familiar with garish pink strawberry daiquiris our parents drank in the 80s. But the actual daiquiri does seem like a Cuban original...a cocktail that just makes sense for that island. We had the drinks made at Ward 8 in Evanston near Chicago and they were really damned good. Putting simple ingredients together in this case really make something bigger than the sum of its ingredients. We thought each daiquiri brought something, but generally we preferred the basic, lime daiquiri. Nicole even has learned to appreciate rum through this cocktail. I love it when we can open doors for people.