Episode 43: Who is Barbara West? – The Barbara West Cocktail
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 –...
Episode 42: A Fiery Blonde – Michelada
Telling stories and history through the cocktails that defined the times.
In the original
#MonsterInAGlass #ArnaudsSpecial #Cocktail episode we catch more of that New Orleans flavor as well as the story of Arnaud Cazanave early restauranteur likely responsible for Bourbon Street
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/monsterinaglass/episodes/2014-06-11T13_00_56-07_00#BlackLiverProject #history
Episode 41: A Drink with Count Charming – Arnaud's Special Cocktail
Episode #41 takes us once again to New Orleans to sit down with a lesser known yet still classic cocktail, the Arnaud’s Special. In 1918 a French wine merchant, Arnaud Cazanave, moved to New Orleans to open a restaurant, aptly named Arnaud’s, and live the American dream. Unfortunately, in the next year Prohibition threatened to end that dream. With everything on the line, Arnaud basically ignored the law and continued serving alcohol at his establishment in secret rooms or in coffee cups. He was eventually found out and imprisoned, but as a popular citizen of the city and a little of his famous entrepreneurial charm he had the charges dismissed. At this point he acquired the unofficial title of Count. He gives us a pretty comprehensive understanding of Mr. Cazanave and his role in building the French Quarter of New Orleans. He was pretty much the king of the town, owning blocks of the city and transforming them into restaurants and lounges; he made the French Quarter what it is. Unfortunately, Jay ...
One of my favorite original
#MonsterInAGlass episodes: the
#MintJulep. We told the Kentucky Derby story, how it escaped attack by the temperance movement and made Kentucky a Southern state
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/monsterinaglass/episodes/2014-06-02T14_35_33-07_00#BlackLiverProject #cocktail #history
Episode 40: Jockeying for Position – Mint Julep
Occasionally we will find cocktails where you can see a clear linear progression or evolution. This ain’t one of those. In this episode, we tackle the messy and minty history of the Mint Julep. While there is a pretty standard recipe nowadays for a Mint Julep, its early iterations varied from state to state and bartender to bartender. It might be change from brandy to bourbon or add fruit, or lots of fruit, or in one case ice cream and rosebuds. There was also a whole bunch of different methods for how to handle the mint. Just don’t crush it, or it could end up in a duel.
You can’t discuss the Mint Julep without talking about the Kentucky Derby. We run through the origins of the Kentucky Derby from Meriwether Lewis Clark, Jr. bringing the derby idea to the Kentucky from Britain, to it becoming a gambling powerhouse, to the floppy hat event we see today.
Join us as we explore possibility of the Mint Julep’s originating as medicine to treat stomachaches in the 18th century, whether the addition of fru...
Episode 39: Floats Like a Butterfly – Stinger
Telling stories and history through the cocktails that defined the times.
Episode 39: Floats Like a Butterfly – Stinger
Telling stories and history through the cocktails that defined the times.
Welcome to the new year, all you Black Livers!
Here is the original #Boulevardier #MonsterInAGlass episode where we introduce Erskine Gwynn, creator of the #cocktail and magazine of the same name
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/monsterinaglass/episodes/2014-05-16T12_44_44-07_00
#BlackLiverProject #history
Episode 38: When Good Americans Die... – The Boulevardier
Oscar Wilde said, “When good Americans die, they go to Paris”. Not long after, many Americans came to Europe and died in the first World War. When the war ended many Americans stayed in Europe, often the more intellectual set of writers and artists including Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Dos Passos. At the time they were discovering the art and culture of their ancestors and a way of life devoted to experiencing the world’s richness, the United States was collapsing in on itself in a schizophrenic panic over loose morals and Communist/anarchist immigrants. No, the Americans, who had just survived the horrors of war, didn’t want to go home to that. In this way, they also died as “good” Americans. Instead, they stayed in Paris and created cocktails.
This episode features another Campari drink with one of the fancier cocktail names: The Boulevardier. This cocktail led us down in an interesting historical path, or maybe a boulevard as it were (Thank you, I will be here all night!). Common consensus points...
#KnickerbockerCocktail
2oz rum
0.5oz orange curacao
0.5oz raspberry syrup
1oz lemon juice
and fruit
#BlackLiverProject #MonsterInAGlass #cocktail #history
Episode 37: Knickerbockers Everywhere – Knickerbocker
The recipe goes essentially unchanged since the days that Jerry Thomas put the recipe in print in 1862. While many might attribute the recipe to Thomas because it shows up in his recipe book, we know that he, like many bartenders, were trying to fill out the books for publication. If you want to find the origin of the cocktail, you will have to look back before Thomas put the recipe down. Mentions of a Knickerbocker cocktail show up on the menu in Peter Bent Brigham’s oyster saloon in Boston, at the beginning of the 1840s. We know this thanks to 19th century temperance zealot, Charles Jewett writing down and publishing a list of all Brigham’s drinks as a way to expose and chastise the saloon owner. Unfortunately for Jewett, his attempt at striking a blow for the temperance movement proved to be a major advertisement for Brigham’s saloon. The saloon became so popular that Brigham made the menu larger. This list eventually got picked up in newspapers, and the saloon even spawned a poem featuring many of the ...
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