A guide to the history of cocktail

HISTORY

Everything has a beginning, and so does cocktail. The first record of cocktail goes far back as the 1800s when it appeared in the Farmer’s Cabinet beverage page editorial. Although it is hard to tell who mixed the first cocktail or discovered the menu, cocktails became popularly addressed as the elites drink. The first and most common cocktail mix was just sugar, bitters, spirit, and water until the mixing guide evolved when people began publishing different books on ways to mix your cocktails. As expected, with a new discovery, the rest of the world began to experiment, hence birthing cocktails with liquor, fruits, grapefruit soda, etc.

COCKTAIL IN TROUBLE

Everything gets in trouble, and so does cocktail. If you are conversant with history, you would understand there is a tendency for a product to be banned if the source isn’t properly understood. Cocktail was banned in the early 1900s, so most men, especially Shakespeare lovers had to sneak to bars to drink cocktails. It was during this season that different people began coming up with other cocktail recipes to avoid the persecution that comes with taking cocktail in its original style.

FRUIT COCKTAIL

Fruit cocktail was one of the recipes developed to avoid persecution. It is basically fruit sliced into spirit or mixed with spirit; a healthy cocktail recipe mix served with the juice of fruits, a little spirit, and syrup. Ideally, fruit cocktails shouldn’t have too much alcohol. Do you think that would make it less of a cocktail? We recommend that you take a fruit cocktail today in honor of National Fruit Cocktail Day. Let’s cheers to the loyalty of cocktail, you can share images with us here.

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This is what a fruit cocktail looks like.

Drink a fruit cocktail today.

FUN FACT

1. Cocktails used to be considered the transition drink. This means that any man who takes cocktail has gone beyond puberty and is ready for responsibilities.

2. The connection between Shakespeareans and cocktail cannot be understood; perhaps, readers love to drink.

3. The first cocktail party was thrown in May 1971, and the site of this party still stands, although it has been converted into a residential building.

That’s about it on the history of cocktail. we hope you’ve learnt something new?

  Happy National Fruit Cocktail Day – May 13th, 2023

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