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Subject: Re: Prohibition Style Drinking & its Bars
From: bacchant036
Posted: Sat Oct 7. 2006, 12:23 UTC
Followup to: "Prohibition Style Drinking & its Bars"  by Thinking Bartender  (Fri Oct 6. 2006, 23:01 UTC)
george, a bit harsh on this?
there were hundreds of new drinks created during the era, if not in the states 
but worlwide, looking at pre and post books the number of listed drinks 
balloons after the period, you of all people must know this!

and besides when did you start to shy from an early morning dram?


> So what is it with all these Prohibition Style bars that are popping 
> up these days?
> 
> Are they trying to pass off the illegality of Volstead Era drinking 
> as somehow glamourous? All the real advances of the Great Experiment 
> period were made in countries which didn't have speakeasies!!!
> 
> Side-car, Monkey Gland, White Lady, Bacardi Cocktail, Between the 
> Sheets, etc etc. None of these were invented in a speakeasy, or even 
> in the US!
> 
> Basically, which cocktails were invented/ prepared in a Speakeasy 
> (1920-1933)?
> 
> Is the public being suckered into believing that Volstead Era 
> (1920-33) style drinking is somehow the pinnacle of cocktails, and is 
> something to be emulated?
> 
> 19th Century Style Bars is what is really needed, but with 21st 
> Century restraint. No morning dram drinking etc.
> 
> Its all bogus to me!
> 
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> George S.
> 
> 
> g.sinclair[at]yahoo.co.uk
> 
> http://www.wiki.webtender.com/wiki/


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