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#KnickerbockerCocktail
2oz rum
0.5oz orange curacao
0.5oz raspberry syrup
1oz lemon juice

and fruit

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December 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Earliest appearance of a standard Gin Fizz in a recipe book we found in Harry Johnson 1882. First reference to a Gin Fizz in anything was in 1878 in Washington DC's Evening Star
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October 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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After Prohibition, the Ramos Gin Fizz recipe was sold to the Roosevelt Hotel
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October 30, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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The origins of the #Manhattan we found in 2013 #BlackLiverProject #MonsterInAGlass #cocktail #history
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February 14, 2024 at 3:00 AM
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Most recent episode release for #MonsterInAGlass #Reanimator was #RamosGinFizz and here is the information we discussed. Asking my audience: Does anyone personally like this #cocktail enough to order one for the flavor and not the presentation?
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November 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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At the height of its popularity, bars that made the Ramos Gin Fizz hired many shaker boys to shake the cocktail for 5 minutes plus.
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October 31, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Henry Ramos, for which the Ramos Gin Fizz is named, was German, not Spanish or Portuguese
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October 29, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Last week I sat with @libationlegacy.bsky.social to discuss the French 75 in more depth to discover where we missed the mark 10 years ago player.captivate.fm/episode/d6cf...
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March 4, 2024 at 11:56 PM
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For a while the #ParkAvenue train was running in an open pit, but as such it was a public safety concern
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December 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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In this #MonsterInAGlass #Reanimator @libation-legacy.bsky.social traces the path of the #BloodAndSand from Hollywood boutique #cocktail in London to a tiki classic out of Singapore...and you can find the strangest things on Reddit these days.
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Ep 31 – Blood and Sand Reanimated
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August 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Another OG #MonsterInAGlass podcast: the #Rattleskull, another colonial cocktail that may not have gone quite so far back and we discuss death in 18th century culture
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Episode 47: Out of Our Skulls – The Rattleskull
If someone handed you a drink and told you it was called a Rattleskull, it would probably make you pause for a second, right? How could you not assume that you are about to drink something with the so...
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September 21, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

So...here's something else about the #ParkAvenue

First recipe book Jay found the Park Avenue #cocktail in was the Fine Art of Mixing Drinks from 1948
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November 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Here is the original #MonsterInAGlass #Vesper episode with a lot on Casino Royale and author Ian Fleming
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Episode 34: Licensed to Swill – Vesper
Telling stories and history through the cocktails that defined the times.
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September 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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New #MonsterInAGlass #Reanimator episode on the #Amarosa cocktail wherein @libation-legacy.bsky.social discusses extinct spirits, the history and business of the Cora brothers, and is still thwarted in trying to find the elusive H. Losappio
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Ep 26 – Amarosa Cocktail Reanimated
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April 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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The original #MonsterInAGlass #Stinger #cocktail episode where Jay discovers the name is a derived from a word that isn't English
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Episode 39: Floats Like a Butterfly – Stinger
Telling stories and history through the cocktails that defined the times.
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January 18, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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Just released the latest #MonsterInAGlass #Reanimator following the evolution of the #NavyGrog from its fundamental useful recipe to a high octane premier drink at popular mid 20th century Tiki bars in the US.
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Ep 17 – Navy Grog Reanimated
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December 2, 2024 at 10:02 PM
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The #ParkAvenue #cocktail is gin, pineapple, sweet vermouth, curacao. The pineapple makes it fancy!
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November 26, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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The latest #MonsterInAGlass #Reanimator with #CalvadosCocktail. @libation-legacy.bsky.social finds a new literary circle that published their own book featuring new batch beverages to make for cocktail parties at home and the Calvados Cocktail player.captivate.fm/episode/31ea...
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Ep 29 - Calvados Cocktail Reanimated
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July 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Talking about the #Blackthorn #cocktail. Made with sloe gin from small plumlike berries indigenous to the British Isles we attempt to find the #history of this forgotten drink
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Episode 46: A Sloe Death – Blackthorn Cocktail
The Blackthorn Cocktail is a real puzzler. It's an example of another cocktail that has multiple versions, which is not that unusual, but in this case the resource we're using has the outlying...
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July 27, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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Welcome to the new year, all you Black Livers!

Here is the original #Boulevardier #MonsterInAGlass episode where we introduce Erskine Gwynn, creator of the #cocktail and magazine of the same name
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Episode 38: When Good Americans Die... – The Boulevardier
Oscar Wilde said, “When good Americans die, they go to Paris”.  Not long after, many Americans came to Europe and died in the first World War.  When the war ended many Americans stayed in Europe, ofte...
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January 5, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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In the old #CorpseReviver episode of #MonsterInAGlass we learn that the #cocktail is not the name of a drink but a type of drink. Also the 19th century progressive movement that feared being buried alive
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Episode 33: Raising the Dead – Corpse Revivers
Putting the word “corpse” in anything you are going to consume is probably a mistake, but Corpse Revivers seem to have weathered any associations with dead stuff. When you look at the name closely you...
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September 2, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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New #MonsterInAGlass #Reanimator
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finds where Temperence drinks cross the Royal British Navy, the #HorsesNeck started as ginger ale and lemon peel garnish...clearly begging to have something high octane added to it.
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Ep 24 – The Horse's Neck Reanimated
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March 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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The #Vesper #cocktail first makes an appearance in Ian Fleming's Casino Royale novel that was the first to feature British spy James Bond
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September 17, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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One of my cocktail friends @libationlegacy.bsky.social is joining me in presenting the classic cocktails from our show to examine them with fresh eyes. From the Libation Legacy blog: libationlegacy.wordpress.com/2024/02/03/m...
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Manhattan Projections: Exploring the Origins of a Classic Cocktail
My friend Cam Marceau, of the Monster in a Glass podcast, has invited me to join him in revisiting his old episodes, starting with the first, on the subject of the Manhattan Cocktail and it's history....
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February 17, 2024 at 3:00 AM
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Here is the original #SingaporeSling episode wherein we discuss the general accepted #history of the drink and struggle a bit on its relation to the Straits Sling. Also a lot on Singapore history www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mon...
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Episode 20: Slingin in the Reign – Singapore Sling
The Singapore Sling has a bit of a tricky history to piece out. Most recipes nowadays have pineapple juice, and attribute the Singapore Sling recipe to the Raffles Hotel in 1915. While some evidence p...
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January 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM