Jul 28, 2017
The mysteries continue with today’s Bull-Dog Highball. First published in Harry Craddock’s Savoy Cocktail Book circa 1930 as the Bull-Dog Cocktail (note the hyphen), Leo Cotton saw fit to publish the same recipe as a Highball five years later. Name...
Jul 27, 2017
The oldest Bulldog Cocktail I could uncover was published in Hugo Ensslin’s 1917 manual ‘Recipes for Mixed Drinks’. As I combed the internet in search of history behind tonight’s recipe, I discovered that while Hugo and Leo Cotton agreed on the...
Jul 26, 2017
All these years I’ve known the combination of orange juice and champagne as the Mimosa. I thoroughly enjoy this fizzy citrus refreshment and was surprised to find out that it originally known as the Bucks Fizz. Now, some say the key differentiation between the...
Jul 25, 2017
When I told Ryan that today’s Mr. Boston’s cocktail was a combination of equal parts lemon juice and Absinthe his “hell no” response was exactly what I thought when I read the recipe for the Brunelle. Before traveling out to New Orleans, I...
Jul 24, 2017
My high hopes to keep up with my Mr. Boston’s blogging were thwarted by all the amazing events at this years Tales of the Cocktail. While I had truly planned on taking an hour or two out of my day to share with you the wonders of the cocktail world, I also...
Jul 19, 2017
When you have trouble remembering the days events, you have either had too much fun or too much to drink… in my case it is a little of both! The second day of the Tales of the Cocktail started off quietly. After picking up our media credentials, we were too...
