List Alcohol Drinks
1. Alexander. This cocktail mixture was named after Alexander the Great several centuries after his death.
2. Benedictine. Named after the order of monks who first made it in France in the sixteenth century. It is one of the oldest liquors in the world.
3. Bloody Mary. In the 1920’s, an American bartender in Paris named Ferdinand L. Petiot created a liquor mixture of vodka and tomato juice, and was first named “bucket of blood.†As the drink was enhanced with salt, pepper, lemon, and Worcestershire sauce, so did its fame that it was hailed as “queen among drinks.†Eventually, the drink was rechristened “Bloody Mary†after Queen Mary I of England.
4. Dom Perignon. It is moet et Chandon’s most famous vintage, named after the seventeenth-century Benedictine monk who made the first true sparkling champagne.
5. Gibson. This improvised martini prepared for and named after the artist Charles Dana Gibson in the early 1900’s.
6. Gimlet. Created in 1890 by British Naval surgeon Sir T.O. Gimlette as a “healthier alternative†to straight gin, which he asserted was detrimental to the health of his naval officers.
7. Gin Rickey. There are two candidates to whom the drink was named after. One was a certain Colonel Rickey around 1895, who was also said to have invented it. The other was one more distinguished Colonel James K. Rickey, who so regularly ordered the drink at New York City’s St. James Hotel that the bartender decided to name it after him.
8. Grog. The British Vice Admiral Sir Edward Vernon one day in 1740 issued an order to have all the rum rations diluted with water to rein in the drunken brawls on the ships. Furious rum patrons of the Royal Navy called the concoction “grog,†after the Admiral whose nickname was “Old Grog†for his favorite grogram coat he wore on deck. Later, “grog†became the label for all cheap liquor.
9. Harvey Wallbanger. Named after a California surfer, Tom Harvey, around the 1970’s. He frequently inebriated himself with a concoction of orange juice, vodka, and Galliani after surfing; and when it was time for him to go home, he regularly crashed against the wall, thus, earning the nickname for both himself and the mixture he enjoyed.
10. Kickapoo Joy Juice. Borrowed from the native tribe of Kickapoo Indians of the Pennsylvania-Ohio region who enjoyed this special homebrew liquor with the early settler.
11. Rob Roy: Christened in honor of the legendary eighteenth-century Scottish pirate Robert Macgregor.
12. Scotch. This malted barley whiskey was named after its inventors: the Scots.
13. Mickey Finn. The liquor was said to have been named after the actual Chicago bartender who prepared it, including several others drinks that was allegedly laced with chloral hydrate to soak the customers enough to be robbed.
1. Alexander. This cocktail mixture was named after Alexander the Great several centuries after his death.
2. Benedictine. Named after the order of monks who first made it in France in the sixteenth century. It is one of the oldest liquors in the world.
3. Bloody Mary. In the 1920’s, an American bartender in Paris named Ferdinand L. Petiot created a liquor mixture of vodka and tomato juice, and was first named “bucket of blood.†As the drink was enhanced with salt, pepper, lemon, and Worcestershire sauce, so did its fame that it was hailed as “queen among drinks.†Eventually, the drink was rechristened “Bloody Mary†after Queen Mary I of England.
4. Dom Perignon. It is moet et Chandon’s most famous vintage, named after the seventeenth-century Benedictine monk who made the first true sparkling champagne.
5. Gibson. This improvised martini prepared for and named after the artist Charles Dana Gibson in the early 1900’s.
