Author: The Sparrow
Weekend with Hemingway – A Farewell to Hemingway This cocktail is one from the Hemingway stable and appears in the…
A white lady is what is known in the trade as a sour. The term dates back to the mid…
Havana is the home of the mojito. Regardless of which version of the origin you prefer, it is in the…
There are two possible origins for the name of this cocktail: The first is that it is named after a…
Whether it is whiskey, whisky or scotch depends on where it is from and also where you are from. If…
The simple ingredients of the Daiquiri make it highly likely it developed in some form in a number of places…
Swizzles can be made with rum, gin or whisky but as this drink has its roots in the Caribbean, I…
Absinthe, like coca cola, had its origins as a herbal remedy. Its key ingredient, wormwood (artemisia absinthium), is thought to…
The Tom Collins had its beginnings in a drink called the Collins Punch which was around in the first half…
This cocktail was invented by Hemingway and appeared in the first of the posthumously published novels, Islands in the Stream….
Due to its strong flavour, absinthe has been combined with other ingredients since its creation. Sugar and water is the…
Dating back to ancient times, Sangria probably began life as what was known as “hippocras.” The forerunner of both sangria…
The whisky sour has been around since at least the mid-1800s. However, it is likely to have been around in…
History A Rum Collins, sometimes known as a Pedro Collins, is based on the classic Tom Collins but using rum…
History This drink is suspiciously like a Sidecar. Although Hemingway would have undoubtedly drank Sidecars, this version and name of…
History The Americano is an easy cocktail to make with equal parts of Campari and Sweet vermouth with some soda…
The modern version of the classic champagne cocktail contains a sugar cube soaked in bitters with a spot of cognac,…
Pauline Pfeiffer was the second of Hemingway’s four wives and one of three to have grown up in St. Louis….
Angostura bitters was developed by the German, Johan Siegert while stationed at the town of Angostura (modern day Ciudad Bolívar)…
This drink appears with no garnish or bitters in To Have and Have Not… But in Hemingway’s Esquire article, “There…
Let’s start with a little history… Coca Cola first became available in Cuba around 1900 following the Spanish-American war which…
Let’s start with a little history… Gin is an evolution of the Dutch drink genever or jenever which was made…
Like many of our classic drinks the Mint Julep started life as a restorative concoction, particularly to quell an upset…
Martini’s are probably the drink most people think of when cocktails are mentioned. Therefore, it is no surprise there are…
