BevX Cocktail List
Ada Coleman created the Hanky Panky in the early 1900s for Charles Hawtrey, the English actor and theatrical producer, at the Savoy's American Bar in London. It is one of the most important cocktails in the history of women in bartending — Coleman was among the first female head bartenders at a ma...
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Created by Joaquín Simó at Death & Co in New York in 2011, the Naked and Famous is one of the most celebrated cocktails of the modern era. It takes the equal-parts template of the Last Word and applies it to mezcal — replacing Gin with Mezcal, green Chartreuse with yellow Chartreuse, maraschino...
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The Pisco Sour is the national cocktail of both Peru and Chile — a distinction that has fueled a diplomatic dispute lasting over a century and showing no signs of resolution. We will stay out of that particular fight. What we will say is that when made properly, with quality Peruvian or Chilean pi...
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The Queen's Park Swizzle was created at the Queen's Park Hotel in Port of Spain, Trinidad, and it stands as the definitive expression of the swizzle — the Rum-mint-bitters-citrus template that predates the Mojito and, many would argue, surpasses it. Demerara Rum provides a dark, molasses-rich back...
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BevX already features the Salty Dog, but the Greyhound — its ancestor — deserves its own entry. Vodka and fresh grapefruit juice, nothing more. It is proof that two good ingredients treated with respect produce something worth drinking. The Greyhound rewards quality: a mediocre vodka and canned...
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The Buck is one of the oldest cocktail templates and one of the least-discussed today, which is a genuine oversight. Spirit plus citrus plus ginger ale — it is as simple as it sounds and as refreshing as you'd hope. The Gin Buck is the template at its finest: a quality London Dry Gin anchored by f...
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The Between the Sheets is a pre-Prohibition classic that emerged in Paris in the 1930s, likely at Harry's New York Bar. It takes the Sidecar's Cognac-orange-lemon formula and splits the base between Cognac and Rum, adding complexity and tropical warmth that the original lacks. The name is provocativ...
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The Clover Club cocktail can be traced back to the late 1800s and Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford hotel. This popular hangout drew crowds of writers, artists, and politicians who enjoyed the drink that eventually took the hotel's name for its private club room. Like many Prohibition-era favorit...
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The 20th Century Cocktail was created by C.A. Tuck in London in 1937 and named for the luxury New York Central Railroad train. It is a Gin cocktail with an improbable ingredient combination — Lillet Blanc and Crème de Cacao alongside gin and lemon — and it tastes like a revelation. The chocolat...
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The Harvey Wallbanger is the cocktail that the 1970s deserves — and also, when made properly, something considerably better than it has any right to be. Vodka, fresh orange juice, and a float of Galliano, the anise-vanilla Italian liqueur, create a drink that is simultaneously a Screwdriver and so...
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The Last Word is a Prohibition-era classic that spent decades in obscurity before being revived at Seattle's Zig Zag Café in 2004. It is a precise, equal-parts exercise in balance — tart, herbal, sweet, and botanical all at once — and one of the most influential cocktails of the modern craft co...
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The Bamboo is one of the great forgotten cocktails of the nineteenth century, created by Louis Eppinger at the Grand Hotel in Yokohama, Japan, in the 1890s. It is a low-alcohol drink — just dry Sherry and dry Vermouth with a dash or two of bitters —, and it is sophisticated beyond measure. Clean...
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The Gin Rickey was named after Joe Rickey, a Democratic lobbyist living in Washington, D.C., during the late 19th century. It was actually a Bourbon Rickey that came first when Rickey instructed a bartender at Shoomaker’s bar to add some lime to his usual order of Bourbon and soda. Walla! The Bour...
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This refreshing and simple cocktail was created in the 1920s. The original version was based on Gin with a healthy dose of grenadine to give this cocktail its distinctive color.
The modern Vodka version—bright, tart, and dangerously easy to drink—exploded in popularity in the 1980s, tha...
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The Airmail cocktail was created in the US, or possibly Cuba, in the late days of Prohibition. A mention of the Airmail cocktail appeared in a 1930 brochure published by Bacardi Rum. At that time, Bacardi was still a Cuban-based rum producer. The drink later appeared in cocktail books in the 1940s....
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