Combustible Cocktail: A Broadside Portfolio (Vol. 2 No. 7)

Some years demand introspection. Others call for celebration, still others for unrest and upheaval. 2017 has been an odd one: to varying degrees, it has prompted all these responses. We can all agree, it has been an exhausting trip around the sun.

Nevertheless, we made it. It is the 5 o’clock of the calendar year, and without a shadow of a doubt, time for a refreshing pause. This collection celebrates the intriguing history of mixed drinks, from the boozy mists of medieval times right up to the present. We visit pagan Europe in midwinter; drop in at the taverns of Colonial America on the eve of Revolution; and join authors, tycoons, and presidents in the bar rooms and parlors of the Gilded Age. Along the way, we nod to some of the greatest—and some of the strangest—concoctions, the enduring monuments of our mixologically inclined ancestors. Moreover, we throw our own hat into the ring, presenting an all new cocktail commissioned specially for this portfolio and published here for the first time, and, finally, try our hand at a cocktail which, when mixed properly, creates a blazing arc of fire.

So, out with the old, and to the new, a hearty “waes hael.” Looking forward in unflappable hope, we ring in 2018 with the cheers of a Combustible Cocktail.

FEATURES:

- The Blue Blazer
- Lamb's Wool
- The Stone Fence
- The Mint Julep
- The Pendennis Club
- The Bullshot
- Lillet
- Ginger Beer
- The Tears of Persephone
- Old Fashioned, Low Ball or Rocks?

This unique Broadside is one of many in our Broadside Library, a collection of quotes, poems, recipes, musings, and more, which aim to both amuse and inspire.

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