I feel as though I'm unintentionally putting myself through cocktail academy with this Mr. Boston's experiment. With every new drink, I discover a historically important piece of cocktail knowledge. A bartender I hadn't yet discovered or a book that I never knew...
With all the Bitters options today, the options are endless for the Mr. Boston's next recipe. The aptly named Bitters Highball is a really simple drink with a lot of character and barely any alcohol. In fact this 8 ounce drink only has .9% ABV - that is a basically a...
After the Calamus Root disaster that was the Bijou Cocktail, I decided to try the next Chartreuse recipe with the small bottle we picked up 3 years ago. The experiment paid off! I couldn't find Mr. Boston's next recipe in any other cocktail book. It doesn't seem to be...
Yesterday's cocktail duo lacked intrigue. Thankfully, today's Mr. Boston's recipe is chock-full of it! Is it Punch or Punsch? That is the question of the day. I'd never heard of Swedish Punsch until running into the 1935 recipe for the Biffy Cocktail. Nor am I certain...
Where did the Bebida Royal Cocktail recipe come from? More importantly, where the heck did it go? So far, Mr. Boston's list of recipes have been inline with cocktail recipes that date back years before Prohibition. Yet, the Bebida Royal is the first cocktail of the...
Many of the recipes we've tried thus far, have lasted the test of time. Others appear to have taken many years to evolve. Mr. Boston's next recipe, The Beauty Spot Cocktail, seems to have taken yet another path. As our 1935 cocktail adventure continues, I have grown...
