CigarsLover Magazine I 2023

SPIRITS
factor in the success of these establishments. In many
speakeasies today, the most classic American drinks are
offered, made with selected ingredients and then enriched
with unconventional proposals to create drinks of
the highest quality in a clear vintage mixology style. We
can mention the Sidecar, made from the union of Cognac,
Cointreau, or Triple sec and lemon juice, in the right balance
between sweet and sour taste, or Mary Pickford,
a rum-based drink created as a tribute to the American
star of silent cinema. Even the old-fashioned has very
ancient origins and became popular during those years,
always with the same function of masking poor quality
whiskey with soda, sugar, and bitters. Sometimes,
again with the aim of disguising qualitatively unconvincing
products, slices of orange or other citrus fruits were
also pounded together with the sugar cube. Some also
argue that the invention of Long Island Ice Tea is to be
placed in these times and precisely by the speakeasies
because, given its color, it could easily be mistaken for a
simple iced tea. Currently, however, there are no histori-
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