The Cocktail Spirit with Robert Hess
The Cocktail Spirit is an original show for the web that raises the awareness of the audience to the culinary value that cocktails play in our daily lives. Host Robert Hess teaches you how to create classic cocktails.
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Bainbridge Island Iced Tea
Ever wonder what we do with the leftovers from all ...
Ever wonder what we do with the leftovers from all the cocktails we make during a Cocktail Spirit shoot? Bainbridge Island Iced Tea of course!
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Grasshopper Cocktail
The Grasshopper Cocktail was apparently created by Philibert Guichet Jr., ...
The Grasshopper Cocktail was apparently created by Philibert Guichet Jr., the owner of Tujaque's bar in New Orleans. As the story goes, it was submitted as an entry to a New York cocktail contest which was held, amazingly enough, in 1928 just before Prohi
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Bordeaux Cocktail
This drink was created by the owner (and sometimes bartender) ...
This drink was created by the owner (and sometimes bartender) of “Monas Bistro & Lounge” here in Seattle. It was one of my hangouts in my early years of digging into cocktails, in fact Tito (the owner) even built my home bar for me.
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Harvest Moon
The December 1934 edition of Esquire Magazine includes a list ...
The December 1934 edition of Esquire Magazine includes a list of the “Top 10” most popular cocktails. The list starts with an Old Fashioned, and ends with a Daiquiri. The rest of the drinks on the list are reasonably well known. One of them, The Harvest M
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Corpse Reviver #1
Corpse Revivers were (and are) a style of drink intended ...
Corpse Revivers were (and are) a style of drink intended for a bit of the hair of the dog (an expression that refers to alcohol used as a treatment for a hangover). Hard to say exactly what it was about these drinks that made them seem more appropriate fo
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Guion Cocktail
This drink was named for a member of the family ...
This drink was named for a member of the family which founded the Guion Line, a steamship company which operated from 1866 to 1892 and was one of the primary steamship lines providing transportation from London to New York. This drink was probably created
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Fairbank Cocktail
This cocktail was believed to have been named after Douglas ...
This cocktail was believed to have been named after Douglas Fairbanks Sr. If that was the case, then why is it “Fairbank” and not “Fairbanks”? An alternate story says it was named after Charles Warren Fairbank, who was Theodore Roosevelt’s vice president.
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Weeski Cocktail - Courtesy of David Wondrich
Necessity can often be a wonderful inspiration. David Wondrich created ...
Necessity can often be a wonderful inspiration. David Wondrich created this drink several years ago when he wanted to bring a bottle of pre-mixed Manhattans to a gathering of friends on Halloween. But his liquor cabinet was missing a few critical ingredie
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Prohibition Cocktail
This drink clearly comes from the era of American Prohibition. ...
This drink clearly comes from the era of American Prohibition. I found it in the Savoy Cocktail Book, which was published in 1933, so even if this wasn’t its first in-print appearance, it had to be pretty close. This recipe specifically called for Plymout
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Flame of Love Cocktail
This drink was created by Pepe Ruiz, bartender at Chasen’s ...
This drink was created by Pepe Ruiz, bartender at Chasen’s in Beverly Hills. Dean Martin had apparently grown tired of the same Martini over and over again, and asked Pepe for something different. This is the drink Pepe came up with.
