Otto e Mezzo – World's Best Cocktail Menu - Tales of the Cocktail

ROSE
Cherry liqueur-Maraschino or Kirsch-Dry
vermouth
is cocktail drink cocktails vies for the title of
world’s oldest with the Sazerac.
It was codied in 20 years, but was done well
before, in fact we have the recipe written on a
menu of 1875.
e cocktail has four versions, the one shown is
the ocial IBA, the others are from France and
England.
His rst ocer was Johnny Mitta mixing of the
Chatham Bar in Paris, around 20 years, Rose
was named the drink with strawberry juice,
instead of Cherry Brandy, in the ’22 Rose appears
in a book of cocktails “How to mix em”
by Robert Vermeire, in a version where the gin
is also placed in a mixture similar to a Perfect
Martini.
In 29 came the release of such a Paul Colin, a
bartender in Paris, which brought the recipe
with gin, vermouth and cherry brandy, and nally
the “Savoy Cocktail Book” of 1930 which
proposed even the Rose with gin, dry vermouth,
apricot brandy, grenadine and English.
As usual we will never know the truth, those
read the will to try, not all at once, of course,
and then not to drive…
MOSCOW MULE
Vodka-Lime-Ginger beer
e “Moscow Mule” is a cocktail particular, as
stated in the original recipe served in glasses or
cups made of copper complements the launch
of the drink.
e Moscow Mule was born in 1947, to accommodate
the launch of Smirno vodka in the
U.S. market, which a little later will determine
the “Vodka Craze” or the Russian craze of the
distillate, used in dozens of drinks and taken to
t t
the ultimate success of James Bond with his famous
Vesper, then transformed into Vodkatini,
to accommodate the fashion.
e drink was invented by three businessmen
who gathered in New York, at the Chatham
Hotel, to discuss and decide on a common
strategy for the launch of new products in the
U.S. market.
e rst, John Martin, head of a major distributor
of alcoholic beverages and food, Heublein
Brothers, according to Jack Morgan, owner of
Cock and Bull Products, manufacturer of soft
drinks among which stood the little-known and
sold Ginger Beer, as well as owner of a famous
restaurant in Los Angeles with the same brand
and Rudolf Kunett, president of Smirno,
about to be launched in the U.S..
e drink was an example of co.marketing incredible
and overwhelming, two semi unknown,
the ginger beer, hitherto little appreciated, and
vodka, a distilled-poor Russian Polish origin,
who together formed an overwhelming success.
e drink, despite the New York native, was
very popular on the West Coast, Los Angeles,
where Morgan had his own restaurant on
Sunset Boulevard, which was the vehicle towed
to the success of the “Mule”, which began to
climb the peaks of the preferences such as local
newspapers headlined, playing on the name
of the cocktail. e real “trick” to the success
of the drink was in ther service of the copper
cups, curious ploy devised by martin himself,
who launched the promotional campaign of the
drink, trusting in this innovation, to convince
consumers to leave gin and rum, instead of
vodka.
Corpse Reiver N ° 1
Cognac-Calvados-Sweet Vermouth
e Corpse Reviver (1 and 2) are two versions
of a successful cocktail quoted by Harry Craddock’s
Savoy Cocktail Book in.
e drink had enormous good fortune of the
late ‘800 at the beginning of 900, then get
lonely at the beginning of Prohibition.
e name could be translated to “Revive Corpses”
was born as a cocktail in the morning, after
drinking copious libations the night before,
taking an old English rule which stated that
“Hang over” or the terrible hangover headache
is immediately if you have the courage to drink
again. esis echoed in the movie “Cocktail”
with Tom Cruise where it is often prepared the
“Red Eye” simple mix with beer, egg and fresh
tomato juice, in the aftermath of the closure of
bars colossal hangover.
e Corpse Reviver is real alcohol bomb seems
much more suitable as an aperitif or as an excellent
evening after dinner, but Craddock writes
in the councils of administration: “is drink
should be drunk before 11am or at least every
time you need energy”. For once I do not think
you are agree with Mr. Craddock.
Corpse Reviver N ° 2
Gin-Cocchi Americano-Lemon juice-Absinthe
e Corpse Reviver # 2 is a much more balanced
and enjoyable cocktails, it was that the
two maggiormante popular, even if he had to
bend to the harsh rules of Prohibition.
e dosage of the ingredients must be absolutely
perfect, because balance is very precarious,
especially for the aspect of the lemon juice.
Cocchi American’s presence is suggested by an
expert mixologist J. Wilson American argues
that the disappearance of Kina Lillet may have
worthy substitute in the distinguished company
of Cocconato (in Italy it is also much easier to
nd that the latter Lillet Blanc again, much
sweeter, which replaced the historical product).
e droplets are deposited in a glass of absinthe
before and with a clever rotating it to be made
to adhere to glass, to develop the strong smell
herbal, which is completed with the vermouth.
Craddock says in his consignli use the drinks to
be drunk, like the previous one, as a refreshing
morning, but warns that “If you drink four of
these in close sequence, we get the opposite
result.”
In the original language: “Unrevive the corpse
again”
We had no doubt, Mr. Craddock….
CZARINA
ank You Fulvio Piccinino
Vodka-Dry Vermouth-Apricot brandy-Drops of
angostura bitter
Fancy name for a classic mixing of the International.
With the gure was intended Czarina royalist
women, the wife of the Tsar in Russia before the
Bolshevik Revolution.
With much less label, but with a good sense of
humor, an American bartender gave this highsounding
name for a drink hat saw his birth
presumably in the early fties, in the Cold War,
Black Russian dell’apripista almost the same
age, when the Vodka began to take its rst steps
in Europe and America, only to be completely
“cleared” by Ian Fleming in 1953 the famous
English writer, creator of James Bond.
e drink was a great success, especially as an
aperitif, and also saw its encoding at the international
level in 1961, when it was included
in the list of the 100 IBA cocktail. As the
Claridge, which saw another drink among its
ingredients, and the vermouth apricot brandy,
the Czarina was then excluded from that list,
was still enough demand to the early 90’s.
Today, thanks to the success of vodka could be
successfully repeated in many vodka bar.
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