On the 27th May 1941, the British Navy succeeded in sinking the German battleship Bismarck, named for Otto von Bismarck, a German politician who was Chancellor of Germany between 1871 and 1890, in a battle lasting several days.
In memory of the sinking of the Bismarck, we’re sharing a cocktail named for the German chancellor, the Bismarck.
Our third and final cocktail is the Valencia Cocktail No. 1. The Valencia cocktail No. 1 featured in Harry Craddock’s 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book and has a No. 2 variant which adds champagne.
Our second cocktail is the Imperial Fizz (also called a Whiskey Fizz). A fizz style cocktail is one which uses water and sugar for the fizz, its “Imperial” title suggests a drink of superior quality and would traditionally have been made with a blended whiskey (if only because until the 1960s, blended whiskey is all anyone drank).
Our first cocktail is the Americano, which was first served at Gaspare Campari’s bar in Milan, Italy, in the 1860s. The name is thought to stem from it’s popularity with American tourists.. We’ve previously posted the Milano Torino and described it as a precursor to the Negroni, but the Americano came between the two of them, where it is reputed the Count Camillo Negroni asked for the soda water in the Americano be replaced with gin.
Our third cocktail is the Porto Tonico. A traditional Portuguese aperitivo, similar to England’s Gin & Tonic.
Our second and final cocktail is the Planter’s Punch. An official IBA cocktail, the Planter’s Punch originated in Jamaica and has a simple rhyme to remember the ingredients; “one of sour, two of sweet, three of strong and four of weak”.
Our second cocktail is the Whiskey Daisy. A classic Daisy variant which uses American whiskey.
Our first cocktail is the Venom, a drink with a… certain reputation, shall we say.
A hugely popular cocktail in Scotland, created by Ross McGregor in Glasgow, 2008. As the orange juice and Blue WKD mix, the drink turns an eye-catching green.
Our third and final cocktail is the Obituary. A potent cocktail which makes use of gin, absinthe and dry vermouth. A classic cocktail dating to at least the 1940s and regarded as one of the Crescent City’s cocktails.