Stirred, shaken, neat, on the rocks, straight up, with a kick, hoặc dirty. However bạn order them, everyone (save for maybe some Mormons and recovering alcoholics) loves a good cocktail. They have inspired world leaders, famous artists and poets, the tiêu đề for a cheesy 1988 Tom Cruise film, socialite parties, a genre of above-the-knee dresses, business executives and bar tenders’ creativity. The cốc-tai, cocktail has infused itself into our popular, historical and literary culture, often becoming as iconic as the famous men and women who drank them.
Can bạn imagine Churchill without a rượu martini, martini in hand hoặc a book bởi Hemmingway that didn’t describe copious cốc-tai, cocktail variations? But, have bạn ever wondered where and when your yêu thích 5 o’clock drink came from? Was a Manhattan truly invented in Manhattan? Where do Mojitos really come from? Who was Tom Collins anyway? Is a Mai Tai really Hawaiian? From the classic rượu martini, martini to the lesser known Singapore Sling, here is a danh sách of 10 classic cocktails and the often-controversial stories behind them.
Read away and the tiếp theo time bạn are downing your drink at your yêu thích watering hole hoặc politely sipping your drink at a fancy cốc-tai, cocktail party, bạn can impress your Những người bạn with your knowledge of where that delightful (or not so delightful) mixture of alcohols really originated.
1. The Mojito
The drink of sailors? Traditionally made using white rum, sugar hoặc sugar cane juice, lime, carbonated water and mint muddled together, many believe the Mojito is quite possibly world’s first cocktail. Although the image of hardened sailors drinking rum mixed with mint, vôi and sugar may not match your vision of straight-from-the-bottle gulping pirates, the Mojito has been enjoyed as early as the 16th century.
One story traces the origins of the Mojito back to 16th century Cuba, where the drink was called the “El Draque” in honor of explorer and sailor Sir Francis Drake. Legend has it the drink was first created as a means of covering up the often harsh taste of tafia/aguardiente, a primitive form of rum. The drink improved greatly during the 19th century with the introduction of copper stills that led to the modern (and much better tasting) form of rum. The contemporary name for the drink probably comes from a Cuban sauce called mojo, which is made from garlic, ôliu, ô liu oil and citrus juice. Perhaps in reference to vôi as a main ingredient, the drink became known as a cốc-tai, cocktail with “a little mojo” or, in Spanish, a “Mojito.” While the Mojito may be one of the world’s first cocktails, it certainly has not waned in popularity over the years. In fact, the drink first invented to make bad rum tolerable is now a widely được ưa chuộng cốc-tai, cocktail around the world and is an especially được ưa chuộng and refreshing summer drink.
2. The Singapore Sling
A classic cốc-tai, cocktail often appearing in various forms on drink menus around the world, the Singapore treo lên, sling was appropriately first concocted in Singapore. While the exact năm this cốc-tai, cocktail was created is open to some debate, most agree that the cốc-tai, cocktail was first created bởi a Hainanese-Chinese bartender named Mr. Ngiam Tong Boon at the Raffles Hotel’s Long Bar in Singapore. It is believed the bartender first mixed up the cốc-tai, cocktail sometime between 1910 and 1915.
The cocktail, which is made from a mixture of gin, quả anh đào, anh đào rượu mạnh, brandy and Benedictine in equal parts with a dash of người thù hằn, đắng and Cointreau and finished off with pineapple and vôi nước ép, nước trái cây and grenadine, was modified in the middle of the 20th century bởi the original creator’s nephew. The newer recipe has been used since and is the base for the modern Singapore Sling. In the Raffles Hotel Museum, visitors can view the an toàn, két an toàn where Mr. Ngiam locked away all of his secret cốc-tai, cocktail recipe books.
Included is also a hastily written recipe for the Singapore Sling, which was jotted down in 1936 bởi a visitor who asked the bartender for the recipe. Today, the drink is served on all Singapore Airlines flights and is mentioned in many được ưa chuộng culture phim chiếu rạp and books, including Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, in which lead character Raoul Duke talks about drinking “Singapore Slings with mescal on the side.” bạn can also still order an original Singapore treo lên, sling at the Raffles Hotel’s Long Bar, where các biểu tượng like Rudyard Kipling and others would once sip this famous, fruity cocktail.
3. The Sidecar
A classic cốc-tai, cocktail dating back about 100 years, the bên cạnh xe, sidecar mixes equal parts rượu mạnh, brandy hoặc Cognac, Cointreau and chanh juice. The origin of the bên cạnh xe, sidecar is largely debated, but được ưa chuộng wisdom is that the drink was probably first created in Paris sometime during hoặc just following WWI. In the 1948 book bởi David A. Embury, The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, the tác giả credits the invention of the drink to an American Army captain in Paris during WWI.
Supposedly the drink was named after the motorcycle bên cạnh xe, sidecar “in which the good captain was driven to and from the little bistro where the drink was born and christened.” Harry’s Bar in Paris is the “little bistro” in which the tác giả is referring to and is often credited as the birthplace of this sweet yet tangy cocktail. Supposedly the mixture of ingredients was first blended when the American captain asked for pre-dinner cốc-tai, cocktail that would help ease the chill he had caught outside. The French bartender was faced with a dilemma. He knew rượu mạnh, brandy would be the best liqueur to take off the chill, but he also refused to serve the traditional after bữa tối, bữa ăn tối drink alone as a pre-dinner cocktail. The result was the bartender mixing rượu mạnh, brandy with the trái cam, màu da cam flavored Cointreau and adding fresh chanh nước ép, nước trái cây to make an appropriate pre-dinner cocktail, and Voila – the bên cạnh xe, sidecar was born.
This cốc-tai, cocktail was especially được ưa chuộng in England and France, where ex-pats like Hemmingway would sip Sidecars at the bar. Although bạn may have an eyebrow raised if bạn are under 70 and ordering this drink today, the bên cạnh xe, sidecar is regaining popularity and making a resurgence on contemporary bar menus.
4. The Pisco Sour
Another cốc-tai, cocktail on the danh sách with a controversial history is the Pisco Sour. A drink made from Pisco (a regional rượu mạnh, brandy from South America), chanh juice, người thù hằn, đắng and egg whites, many thảo luận whether the national origin of this drink is Peruvian hoặc Chilean.
Pisco itself dates back to the 16th century. The liqueur distilled from grapes bởi Spanish colonialists in South America in an attempt to make an inexpensive version of Spanish brandy. In Peru, the creation of the Pisco chua is attributed to American expatriate Victor “Gringo” Morris at the Morris Bar in Lima, who blended up the drink as a variation of a whiskey sour. The drink immediately became so được ưa chuộng that other major hotels began serving it in their bars also, quickly popularizing the cốc-tai, cocktail with a international crowd.
In Chile, it is believed the birth of the Pisco chua can be attributed to the English steward of a sailing ship, which was stopped at the then Peruvian and now Chilean port city of Iquique in 1872. It was the steward, who bởi mixing the regional liqueur with limes grown in the area, created the first Pisco Sour. Whatever the origins of the famous drink, the Pisco chua is the iconic cốc-tai, cocktail of both Peru and Chile. In fact, both countries celebrate the famous cốc-tai, cocktail with National Pisco chua Days (Peru’s in the first Saturday of February and Chile’s is celebrated May 15th) and there are many variations of the original cốc-tai, cocktail found around the world today.
5. White Russian
Not named for the country of its origin, but rather for the rượu vodka, vodka used in the recipe, White Russians have recently made a booming resurgence in part due to the cult movie classic The Big Lebowiski. The movie’s main character, The Dude, drinks a steady stream of White Russians throughout the film. The use of the word Russian in the name of this drink was mostly due to the fact that when it was first invented sometime in the 1930s, prior to the huge rượu vodka, vodka marketing campaign of the 1950s, when rượu vodka, vodka was a little known liquor in the United States usually directly associated with its nation of origin, Russia.
The White Russian did not get its current recipe (the drink combines equal parts cream, rượu vodka, vodka and Kahula) hoặc moniker until the 1960s. In 1961, the Diner’s Club Drink Book, gave a recipe for a “Black Russian” without cream, implying that the same cốc-tai, cocktail with cream would therefore be named a White Russian. Today White Russians have inspired a drinking game among college students, who try to keep up with The Dude in their consumption of the cốc-tai, cocktail while watching The Big Lebowski.
The drink is also the yêu thích drink of lightweights and lushes, as White Russians effectively obfuscate the hefty dose of alcohol in them that they go down the hatch with ease. That’s great for those who rarely drink hoặc for those who drink a little too much (i.e. The Dude, who gets most of his daily nutrition from these creamy little cocktails).
5. The Manhattan
Often called the “King of Cocktails” hoặc the “Drinking Man’s Cocktail,” The Manhattan is a very potent drink and one of the legendary six classic cocktails included in David Embury’s famous book, The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks. The Manhattan is a cốc-tai, cocktail made with a mixture of whiskey, sweet rượu vermouth, vermouth and người thù hằn, đắng and garnished most often with a maraschino cherry.
Regularly regarded as one of the best cocktails ever created, the Manhattan has a long and debated history. The cốc-tai, cocktail was supposedly first invented at the Manhattan Club in New York City in the early 1870s. Legend has it that the drink was invented for a banquet hosted bởi Lady Randolph Churchill (Winston Churchill’s mother) in honor of presidential candidate Samuel J. Tilden. The success of the banquet quickly made the cốc-tai, cocktail fashionable in New York City’s powerful circles and prompted many people to request the drink bởi referring to the name of the club where it originated, calling it “the Manhattan cocktail.”
However, like with almost every cốc-tai, cocktail on this list, there is great thảo luận as to the truth behind this account of the Manhattan. In fact, some claim that while the drink may have first been mixed at the Manhattan Club, Lady Churchill had nothing to do with the banquet honoring Samuel Tilden and, in fact, was in England at the time giving birth to her soon-to-be famous son. Another legend says that a bartender with the last name Black invented the Manhattan at a bar on Broadway in New York City sometime in the 1860s. Whatever the true story, this cốc-tai, cocktail does indeed chịu, gấu the name of the island from which it came.
6. The Mai Tai
The fruity, tropical Mai Tai is another cốc-tai, cocktail with conflicting stories of origin. The drink, which is made of a mixture of white and vàng rum, pineapple juice, trái cam, màu da cam and/or vôi juice, is of American origin despite its Polynesian name. The favored history, however, is that the drink was first created bởi Victor Buergon, better known as “Trader Vic” who invented the cốc-tai, cocktail at the Polynesian-style restaurant in Oakland, California that bore his name.
Supposedly, Buergon created the first Mai Tai in honor of some Những người bạn who were visiting from Tahiti in 1944. After mixing rum with just the right combination of trái cây juices and trái cam, màu da cam flavored liqueur, he served the new cốc-tai, cocktail to his Những người bạn who cried out, “Maitai roa!” (which literally means “very good”), and the cốc-tai, cocktail was born. However, like most được ưa chuộng cocktails, the Mai Tai’s history is not without controversy.
Trader Vic’s amicable rival, founding father of tiki restaurants, bars and các câu lạc bộ Donn bờ biển, bãi biển (of Don the Beachcomber restaurants), also claims to have created in the first Mai Tai in 1933 at his newly opened restaurant in Hollywood. Donn bờ biển, bãi biển (the founder legally changed his name after the success of his tiki restaurant chain) is known as the originator of Polynesian style restaurants that became a được ưa chuộng culture craze following WWII. While both men claim to be the original creator of this drink, the Mai Tai’s huge popularity can be mostly owed to both men, who sold the drinks in their wildly được ưa chuộng restaurant chains and forever associated the fruity drink with Hawaii – despite its California origins.
7. Tom Collins
There are a few different legends surrounding the name of the famous and classic Tom Collins cocktail. While many assume the drink was named after a real person, there is much thảo luận whether there ever really was a Tom Collins and whether he lent to his name to this cốc-tai, cocktail of gin, chanh and vôi nước ép, nước trái cây and soda water. One được ưa chuộng account says the cốc-tai, cocktail was named after not a Tom, but a John Collins who was a headwaiter at a Luân Đôn Hotel in the early 19th century. The cocktail’s name was changed to a Tom Collins when Old Tom brand gin, rượu gin (a sweetened gin, rượu gin rarely used today) was substituted for the drier gin, rượu gin in the original recipe.
Another story, which is the most probable of the various legends, involves a hoax that took over New York City in 1874. The prank went something like this: A friend would run into bạn on the đường phố, street and, with great concern, tell bạn he just overheard someone named Tom Collins at a bar down the đường phố, street saying hateful and libelous things about you. bạn race to that bar to confront the bounder, where bạn would be told that Tom Collins had just left for a bar several blocks away. When bạn get there, Collins would already have decamped for another joint across town. As bạn chase all over the city, your Những người bạn convulse with laughter. The prank gained such notoriety, that even local newspapers started reporting the hoax. In 1874, the Steubenville Daily Herald reported that the hoax caused “frantic young men to rush wildly through the streets of the city on Saturday hunting for the libelous Tom Collins.” These young men were often directed to find legendary Tom Collins at a local bar.
So how did the hoax turn into the name of a drink? According to tường đường phố, street Journal columnist and cốc-tai, cocktail historian Eric Felten, “It doesn’t take much to imagine how Tom Collins came to be a drink. How many times does someone have to barge into a saloon demanding a Tom Collins before the bartender takes the opportunity to offer him a cốc-tai, cocktail so-named?” In any event, this được ưa chuộng cốc-tai, cocktail has become a fixture in cốc-tai, cocktail culture, inspiring the name of a glass (a Collins glass) as well as a pre-mixed and được ưa chuộng Collins Mix.
9. Bloody Mary
Like every other cốc-tai, cocktail on this list, the history behind the Bloody Mary is also a bit cloudy. One được ưa chuộng legend says that the original Bloody Mary, which was then made using equal parts cà chua nước ép, nước trái cây and rượu vodka, vodka and used as a hangover cure, was invented bởi comedian, songwriter and movie producer George Jessel (aka the “Toastmaster General of the United States”). Jessel claimed he created the drink one morning in Palm bờ biển, bãi biển during the 1950s, when he mixed cà chua nước ép, nước trái cây and rượu vodka, vodka as a way to recover from an entire night spent drinking. Jessel even appeared in Smirnoff rượu vodka, vodka ads in the 1950s declaring, “I, George Jessel invented the Bloody Mary.” However, as aptly put bởi tường đường phố, street Journal columnist and cốc-tai, cocktail historian Eric Felten, “Given Jessel’s knack for self-promotion, many doubted his claim,” which made skeptics to tìm kiếm for the true origin of the drink and opened the door for a legend involving the head bartender at the St. Regis Hotel in New York named Fernand “Peter” Petriot.
Starting in the 1940s, Petriot was supposedly serving up Blood Marys under the alias of “Red Snappers” at the hotel’s King Cole Bar. After the được ưa chuộng cà chua nước ép, nước trái cây based cốc-tai, cocktail became được ưa chuộng in the 1950s, Petriot would claim that he actually first invented the cốc-tai, cocktail while working at Harry’s Bar in Paris during the 1920s (also supposed birthplace of the Sidecar). However, in reality, the Bloody Mary được ưa chuộng today is in fact a combination of the two men’s creations. Petriot himself admitted that “George Jessel đã đưa ý kiến he created it, but it was really nothing but rượu vodka, vodka and cà chua nước ép, nước trái cây when I took it over.” While Petriot did inadvertently give credit for the original drink to Jessel, he also specified that it was he who added salt, pepper, cayenne and Worcestershire sauce to the concoction, creating the modern Bloody Mary.
10. The Martini
And, last, but certainly not least, on this danh sách of cocktails is the Martini. The most well-known of cocktails, Western culture has created quite the lore and mythology surrounding the drink. The three-martini lunch became a được ưa chuộng phrase coined for expensive, long lunches taken bởi business executives. In fact, the rượu martini, martini has become thêm of a class of drinks than one drink in particular – with variations like Appletinis, rượu vodka, vodka martinis and others becoming được ưa chuộng over the years.
The famous and powerful people who have favored the simple, yet potent, original – Winston Churchill, Truman Capote, Ernest Hemmingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald to name a few – have only added to the lore of this được ưa chuộng classic cocktail. The first rượu martini, martini – hoặc Martini-like drink – was poured sometime between 1862 and 1871 and was called a Martinez, a name to honor the humble town of Martinez, California, where it was purportedly first dreamed up bởi bartender Julio Richelieu, proprietor of the eponymous Julio Richelieu Saloon. That similar (but sweeter) version of the cốc-tai, cocktail consisted of sweet vermouth, gin, người thù hằn, đắng and was garnished with a maraschino cherry. This version (which was essentially a gin, rượu gin Manhattan) eventually gave way to the thêm contemporary drier version that includes gin, rượu vermouth, vermouth and người thù hằn, đắng and was supposedly first made được ưa chuộng when John D. Rockefeller started downing them at the turn of the 20th century.
Although the origins of the first Martinez ngày back to the 1860s, the modern rượu martini, martini first rose in popularity starting in 1900s. During prohibition, the rượu martini, martini became the drink of choice (or no choice in many cases) in speakeasies across the country due to the quick accessibility and production of gin. In fact, it was often a gin, rượu gin rượu martini, martini hoặc no drink at all for customers hiding out in their secret watering holes. The modern rượu vodka, vodka Martini, which James Bond stalwarts will surely order shaken not stirred, was not created until much later and many rượu martini, martini purists still claim the idea of a rượu martini, martini made with rượu vodka, vodka is preposterous. A steadfast and iconic cocktail, however, the classic rượu martini, martini is here to stay, whether made with rượu vodka, vodka hoặc gin, dirty hoặc not, with varying amounts of vermouth, neat, hoặc over ice.
Can bạn imagine Churchill without a rượu martini, martini in hand hoặc a book bởi Hemmingway that didn’t describe copious cốc-tai, cocktail variations? But, have bạn ever wondered where and when your yêu thích 5 o’clock drink came from? Was a Manhattan truly invented in Manhattan? Where do Mojitos really come from? Who was Tom Collins anyway? Is a Mai Tai really Hawaiian? From the classic rượu martini, martini to the lesser known Singapore Sling, here is a danh sách of 10 classic cocktails and the often-controversial stories behind them.
Read away and the tiếp theo time bạn are downing your drink at your yêu thích watering hole hoặc politely sipping your drink at a fancy cốc-tai, cocktail party, bạn can impress your Những người bạn with your knowledge of where that delightful (or not so delightful) mixture of alcohols really originated.
1. The Mojito
The drink of sailors? Traditionally made using white rum, sugar hoặc sugar cane juice, lime, carbonated water and mint muddled together, many believe the Mojito is quite possibly world’s first cocktail. Although the image of hardened sailors drinking rum mixed with mint, vôi and sugar may not match your vision of straight-from-the-bottle gulping pirates, the Mojito has been enjoyed as early as the 16th century.
One story traces the origins of the Mojito back to 16th century Cuba, where the drink was called the “El Draque” in honor of explorer and sailor Sir Francis Drake. Legend has it the drink was first created as a means of covering up the often harsh taste of tafia/aguardiente, a primitive form of rum. The drink improved greatly during the 19th century with the introduction of copper stills that led to the modern (and much better tasting) form of rum. The contemporary name for the drink probably comes from a Cuban sauce called mojo, which is made from garlic, ôliu, ô liu oil and citrus juice. Perhaps in reference to vôi as a main ingredient, the drink became known as a cốc-tai, cocktail with “a little mojo” or, in Spanish, a “Mojito.” While the Mojito may be one of the world’s first cocktails, it certainly has not waned in popularity over the years. In fact, the drink first invented to make bad rum tolerable is now a widely được ưa chuộng cốc-tai, cocktail around the world and is an especially được ưa chuộng and refreshing summer drink.
2. The Singapore Sling
A classic cốc-tai, cocktail often appearing in various forms on drink menus around the world, the Singapore treo lên, sling was appropriately first concocted in Singapore. While the exact năm this cốc-tai, cocktail was created is open to some debate, most agree that the cốc-tai, cocktail was first created bởi a Hainanese-Chinese bartender named Mr. Ngiam Tong Boon at the Raffles Hotel’s Long Bar in Singapore. It is believed the bartender first mixed up the cốc-tai, cocktail sometime between 1910 and 1915.
The cocktail, which is made from a mixture of gin, quả anh đào, anh đào rượu mạnh, brandy and Benedictine in equal parts with a dash of người thù hằn, đắng and Cointreau and finished off with pineapple and vôi nước ép, nước trái cây and grenadine, was modified in the middle of the 20th century bởi the original creator’s nephew. The newer recipe has been used since and is the base for the modern Singapore Sling. In the Raffles Hotel Museum, visitors can view the an toàn, két an toàn where Mr. Ngiam locked away all of his secret cốc-tai, cocktail recipe books.
Included is also a hastily written recipe for the Singapore Sling, which was jotted down in 1936 bởi a visitor who asked the bartender for the recipe. Today, the drink is served on all Singapore Airlines flights and is mentioned in many được ưa chuộng culture phim chiếu rạp and books, including Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, in which lead character Raoul Duke talks about drinking “Singapore Slings with mescal on the side.” bạn can also still order an original Singapore treo lên, sling at the Raffles Hotel’s Long Bar, where các biểu tượng like Rudyard Kipling and others would once sip this famous, fruity cocktail.
3. The Sidecar
A classic cốc-tai, cocktail dating back about 100 years, the bên cạnh xe, sidecar mixes equal parts rượu mạnh, brandy hoặc Cognac, Cointreau and chanh juice. The origin of the bên cạnh xe, sidecar is largely debated, but được ưa chuộng wisdom is that the drink was probably first created in Paris sometime during hoặc just following WWI. In the 1948 book bởi David A. Embury, The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, the tác giả credits the invention of the drink to an American Army captain in Paris during WWI.
Supposedly the drink was named after the motorcycle bên cạnh xe, sidecar “in which the good captain was driven to and from the little bistro where the drink was born and christened.” Harry’s Bar in Paris is the “little bistro” in which the tác giả is referring to and is often credited as the birthplace of this sweet yet tangy cocktail. Supposedly the mixture of ingredients was first blended when the American captain asked for pre-dinner cốc-tai, cocktail that would help ease the chill he had caught outside. The French bartender was faced with a dilemma. He knew rượu mạnh, brandy would be the best liqueur to take off the chill, but he also refused to serve the traditional after bữa tối, bữa ăn tối drink alone as a pre-dinner cocktail. The result was the bartender mixing rượu mạnh, brandy with the trái cam, màu da cam flavored Cointreau and adding fresh chanh nước ép, nước trái cây to make an appropriate pre-dinner cocktail, and Voila – the bên cạnh xe, sidecar was born.
This cốc-tai, cocktail was especially được ưa chuộng in England and France, where ex-pats like Hemmingway would sip Sidecars at the bar. Although bạn may have an eyebrow raised if bạn are under 70 and ordering this drink today, the bên cạnh xe, sidecar is regaining popularity and making a resurgence on contemporary bar menus.
4. The Pisco Sour
Another cốc-tai, cocktail on the danh sách with a controversial history is the Pisco Sour. A drink made from Pisco (a regional rượu mạnh, brandy from South America), chanh juice, người thù hằn, đắng and egg whites, many thảo luận whether the national origin of this drink is Peruvian hoặc Chilean.
Pisco itself dates back to the 16th century. The liqueur distilled from grapes bởi Spanish colonialists in South America in an attempt to make an inexpensive version of Spanish brandy. In Peru, the creation of the Pisco chua is attributed to American expatriate Victor “Gringo” Morris at the Morris Bar in Lima, who blended up the drink as a variation of a whiskey sour. The drink immediately became so được ưa chuộng that other major hotels began serving it in their bars also, quickly popularizing the cốc-tai, cocktail with a international crowd.
In Chile, it is believed the birth of the Pisco chua can be attributed to the English steward of a sailing ship, which was stopped at the then Peruvian and now Chilean port city of Iquique in 1872. It was the steward, who bởi mixing the regional liqueur with limes grown in the area, created the first Pisco Sour. Whatever the origins of the famous drink, the Pisco chua is the iconic cốc-tai, cocktail of both Peru and Chile. In fact, both countries celebrate the famous cốc-tai, cocktail with National Pisco chua Days (Peru’s in the first Saturday of February and Chile’s is celebrated May 15th) and there are many variations of the original cốc-tai, cocktail found around the world today.
5. White Russian
Not named for the country of its origin, but rather for the rượu vodka, vodka used in the recipe, White Russians have recently made a booming resurgence in part due to the cult movie classic The Big Lebowiski. The movie’s main character, The Dude, drinks a steady stream of White Russians throughout the film. The use of the word Russian in the name of this drink was mostly due to the fact that when it was first invented sometime in the 1930s, prior to the huge rượu vodka, vodka marketing campaign of the 1950s, when rượu vodka, vodka was a little known liquor in the United States usually directly associated with its nation of origin, Russia.
The White Russian did not get its current recipe (the drink combines equal parts cream, rượu vodka, vodka and Kahula) hoặc moniker until the 1960s. In 1961, the Diner’s Club Drink Book, gave a recipe for a “Black Russian” without cream, implying that the same cốc-tai, cocktail with cream would therefore be named a White Russian. Today White Russians have inspired a drinking game among college students, who try to keep up with The Dude in their consumption of the cốc-tai, cocktail while watching The Big Lebowski.
The drink is also the yêu thích drink of lightweights and lushes, as White Russians effectively obfuscate the hefty dose of alcohol in them that they go down the hatch with ease. That’s great for those who rarely drink hoặc for those who drink a little too much (i.e. The Dude, who gets most of his daily nutrition from these creamy little cocktails).
5. The Manhattan
Often called the “King of Cocktails” hoặc the “Drinking Man’s Cocktail,” The Manhattan is a very potent drink and one of the legendary six classic cocktails included in David Embury’s famous book, The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks. The Manhattan is a cốc-tai, cocktail made with a mixture of whiskey, sweet rượu vermouth, vermouth and người thù hằn, đắng and garnished most often with a maraschino cherry.
Regularly regarded as one of the best cocktails ever created, the Manhattan has a long and debated history. The cốc-tai, cocktail was supposedly first invented at the Manhattan Club in New York City in the early 1870s. Legend has it that the drink was invented for a banquet hosted bởi Lady Randolph Churchill (Winston Churchill’s mother) in honor of presidential candidate Samuel J. Tilden. The success of the banquet quickly made the cốc-tai, cocktail fashionable in New York City’s powerful circles and prompted many people to request the drink bởi referring to the name of the club where it originated, calling it “the Manhattan cocktail.”
However, like with almost every cốc-tai, cocktail on this list, there is great thảo luận as to the truth behind this account of the Manhattan. In fact, some claim that while the drink may have first been mixed at the Manhattan Club, Lady Churchill had nothing to do with the banquet honoring Samuel Tilden and, in fact, was in England at the time giving birth to her soon-to-be famous son. Another legend says that a bartender with the last name Black invented the Manhattan at a bar on Broadway in New York City sometime in the 1860s. Whatever the true story, this cốc-tai, cocktail does indeed chịu, gấu the name of the island from which it came.
6. The Mai Tai
The fruity, tropical Mai Tai is another cốc-tai, cocktail with conflicting stories of origin. The drink, which is made of a mixture of white and vàng rum, pineapple juice, trái cam, màu da cam and/or vôi juice, is of American origin despite its Polynesian name. The favored history, however, is that the drink was first created bởi Victor Buergon, better known as “Trader Vic” who invented the cốc-tai, cocktail at the Polynesian-style restaurant in Oakland, California that bore his name.
Supposedly, Buergon created the first Mai Tai in honor of some Những người bạn who were visiting from Tahiti in 1944. After mixing rum with just the right combination of trái cây juices and trái cam, màu da cam flavored liqueur, he served the new cốc-tai, cocktail to his Những người bạn who cried out, “Maitai roa!” (which literally means “very good”), and the cốc-tai, cocktail was born. However, like most được ưa chuộng cocktails, the Mai Tai’s history is not without controversy.
Trader Vic’s amicable rival, founding father of tiki restaurants, bars and các câu lạc bộ Donn bờ biển, bãi biển (of Don the Beachcomber restaurants), also claims to have created in the first Mai Tai in 1933 at his newly opened restaurant in Hollywood. Donn bờ biển, bãi biển (the founder legally changed his name after the success of his tiki restaurant chain) is known as the originator of Polynesian style restaurants that became a được ưa chuộng culture craze following WWII. While both men claim to be the original creator of this drink, the Mai Tai’s huge popularity can be mostly owed to both men, who sold the drinks in their wildly được ưa chuộng restaurant chains and forever associated the fruity drink with Hawaii – despite its California origins.
7. Tom Collins
There are a few different legends surrounding the name of the famous and classic Tom Collins cocktail. While many assume the drink was named after a real person, there is much thảo luận whether there ever really was a Tom Collins and whether he lent to his name to this cốc-tai, cocktail of gin, chanh and vôi nước ép, nước trái cây and soda water. One được ưa chuộng account says the cốc-tai, cocktail was named after not a Tom, but a John Collins who was a headwaiter at a Luân Đôn Hotel in the early 19th century. The cocktail’s name was changed to a Tom Collins when Old Tom brand gin, rượu gin (a sweetened gin, rượu gin rarely used today) was substituted for the drier gin, rượu gin in the original recipe.
Another story, which is the most probable of the various legends, involves a hoax that took over New York City in 1874. The prank went something like this: A friend would run into bạn on the đường phố, street and, with great concern, tell bạn he just overheard someone named Tom Collins at a bar down the đường phố, street saying hateful and libelous things about you. bạn race to that bar to confront the bounder, where bạn would be told that Tom Collins had just left for a bar several blocks away. When bạn get there, Collins would already have decamped for another joint across town. As bạn chase all over the city, your Những người bạn convulse with laughter. The prank gained such notoriety, that even local newspapers started reporting the hoax. In 1874, the Steubenville Daily Herald reported that the hoax caused “frantic young men to rush wildly through the streets of the city on Saturday hunting for the libelous Tom Collins.” These young men were often directed to find legendary Tom Collins at a local bar.
So how did the hoax turn into the name of a drink? According to tường đường phố, street Journal columnist and cốc-tai, cocktail historian Eric Felten, “It doesn’t take much to imagine how Tom Collins came to be a drink. How many times does someone have to barge into a saloon demanding a Tom Collins before the bartender takes the opportunity to offer him a cốc-tai, cocktail so-named?” In any event, this được ưa chuộng cốc-tai, cocktail has become a fixture in cốc-tai, cocktail culture, inspiring the name of a glass (a Collins glass) as well as a pre-mixed and được ưa chuộng Collins Mix.
9. Bloody Mary
Like every other cốc-tai, cocktail on this list, the history behind the Bloody Mary is also a bit cloudy. One được ưa chuộng legend says that the original Bloody Mary, which was then made using equal parts cà chua nước ép, nước trái cây and rượu vodka, vodka and used as a hangover cure, was invented bởi comedian, songwriter and movie producer George Jessel (aka the “Toastmaster General of the United States”). Jessel claimed he created the drink one morning in Palm bờ biển, bãi biển during the 1950s, when he mixed cà chua nước ép, nước trái cây and rượu vodka, vodka as a way to recover from an entire night spent drinking. Jessel even appeared in Smirnoff rượu vodka, vodka ads in the 1950s declaring, “I, George Jessel invented the Bloody Mary.” However, as aptly put bởi tường đường phố, street Journal columnist and cốc-tai, cocktail historian Eric Felten, “Given Jessel’s knack for self-promotion, many doubted his claim,” which made skeptics to tìm kiếm for the true origin of the drink and opened the door for a legend involving the head bartender at the St. Regis Hotel in New York named Fernand “Peter” Petriot.
Starting in the 1940s, Petriot was supposedly serving up Blood Marys under the alias of “Red Snappers” at the hotel’s King Cole Bar. After the được ưa chuộng cà chua nước ép, nước trái cây based cốc-tai, cocktail became được ưa chuộng in the 1950s, Petriot would claim that he actually first invented the cốc-tai, cocktail while working at Harry’s Bar in Paris during the 1920s (also supposed birthplace of the Sidecar). However, in reality, the Bloody Mary được ưa chuộng today is in fact a combination of the two men’s creations. Petriot himself admitted that “George Jessel đã đưa ý kiến he created it, but it was really nothing but rượu vodka, vodka and cà chua nước ép, nước trái cây when I took it over.” While Petriot did inadvertently give credit for the original drink to Jessel, he also specified that it was he who added salt, pepper, cayenne and Worcestershire sauce to the concoction, creating the modern Bloody Mary.
10. The Martini
And, last, but certainly not least, on this danh sách of cocktails is the Martini. The most well-known of cocktails, Western culture has created quite the lore and mythology surrounding the drink. The three-martini lunch became a được ưa chuộng phrase coined for expensive, long lunches taken bởi business executives. In fact, the rượu martini, martini has become thêm of a class of drinks than one drink in particular – with variations like Appletinis, rượu vodka, vodka martinis and others becoming được ưa chuộng over the years.
The famous and powerful people who have favored the simple, yet potent, original – Winston Churchill, Truman Capote, Ernest Hemmingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald to name a few – have only added to the lore of this được ưa chuộng classic cocktail. The first rượu martini, martini – hoặc Martini-like drink – was poured sometime between 1862 and 1871 and was called a Martinez, a name to honor the humble town of Martinez, California, where it was purportedly first dreamed up bởi bartender Julio Richelieu, proprietor of the eponymous Julio Richelieu Saloon. That similar (but sweeter) version of the cốc-tai, cocktail consisted of sweet vermouth, gin, người thù hằn, đắng and was garnished with a maraschino cherry. This version (which was essentially a gin, rượu gin Manhattan) eventually gave way to the thêm contemporary drier version that includes gin, rượu vermouth, vermouth and người thù hằn, đắng and was supposedly first made được ưa chuộng when John D. Rockefeller started downing them at the turn of the 20th century.
Although the origins of the first Martinez ngày back to the 1860s, the modern rượu martini, martini first rose in popularity starting in 1900s. During prohibition, the rượu martini, martini became the drink of choice (or no choice in many cases) in speakeasies across the country due to the quick accessibility and production of gin. In fact, it was often a gin, rượu gin rượu martini, martini hoặc no drink at all for customers hiding out in their secret watering holes. The modern rượu vodka, vodka Martini, which James Bond stalwarts will surely order shaken not stirred, was not created until much later and many rượu martini, martini purists still claim the idea of a rượu martini, martini made with rượu vodka, vodka is preposterous. A steadfast and iconic cocktail, however, the classic rượu martini, martini is here to stay, whether made with rượu vodka, vodka hoặc gin, dirty hoặc not, with varying amounts of vermouth, neat, hoặc over ice.