We've identified a trend now of literary people putting together cocktail books. Not unlike Satan's Whiskers, Doug finds a new literary circle that published their own cocktail book featuring new batch beverages to make for cocktail parties at home and the Calvados Cocktail

The #RobRoy is Doug's first foray into cocktail history blogging and in this episode he talks about what new information has come out since 2014 infused by David Wondrich and he tells the story of Duke Calabritti whose restaurant would become famous for serving the first Rob Roy #cocktail

So according to Doug it was the Lord Mayor of London who made the #PimmsCup for HIS seafood restaurant and a drunk driving case makes the drink popular in the United States.

Revisiting the episode on the #Amarosa cocktail wherein Doug discusses extinct spirits, the history and business of the Cora brothers, and is still thwarted in trying to find the elusive H. Losappio

Apparently the #HankyPanky was created within a toxic workplace environment. Doug reveals the bitter feud between Aida Coleman and Ruth Burgess at the Savoy hotel bar and how Harry Craddock used it to his advantage.

Where Temperence drinks cross the Royal British Navy, the #HorsesNeck started as ginger ale and a fancy lemon peel garnish...clearly it was begging to have something high octane and brown added to it. Also, is your bartender reusing your garnish?

Doug reveals that our original episode for the Satan's Whiskers has the earliest origin story than any other yet tracked and that Harry Craddock scooped this drink from a little known publication out of London along with Hugo Ensslin's drinks and many others. And we take a peek into the lives of some leading publishers at the time.

Doug describes the earliest references to #PinkGin's forebear the Gin Pahit, used as a digestiv for the heavy East Asian cuisine and then popularized in literature of the early 20th century.