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Speakeasies

ThinkingBartender

By ThinkingBartender
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ThinkingBartender

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This will have to be three questions:

1) Which cocktails were specifically being ordered/ consumed in US Speakeasies, during prohibition (1920-1933)?

2) And of these Cocktails which were actually invented on American Soil, in these same Speakeasies?

The point of these two questions is basically, what did the Speakeasy positively contribute to the art of cocktails?

They were definately not bastions of knowledge, rather places for mobsters to accumulate hard cash.

3) What is the current fixation with opening Volstead Error [sic - "Era"] drinkeries? And how much of it is authentic speakeasy chic?

Any other thoughts?

Cheers!

George S.

g.sinclair@yahoo.co.uk

http://www.wiki.webtender.com/wiki/

Cheers!

George Sinclair.

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