86 Long Island Iced Tea
Responsible for many a headache (and a bad decision), the Long Island Iced Tea is a potent mix of four white spirits and Coca-Cola.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
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Airmail
The first instance of the Air Mail cocktail was documented in Esquire magazine’s 1949 edition of Handbook for Hosts resembling a Caribbean version of the French 75.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger
Quoit Punch
This 18th-century punch is named for the flat, heavy rings pitched at posts during afternoon barbecues filled with lawn games and languorous punch drinking.
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Charles Dickens’s Punch
A cheek-warming mix of cognac, rum, citrus, sugar, black tea ... and fire.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
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Mojito
A descendant of the “Draque”—an old Cuban concoction of unrefined rum, cane sugar and lime juice—the Mojito was most likely invented when white rums entered the market in the mid-to-late…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger
Painful Punch
A sangria-inspired punch by California bartender Scott Beattie.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Sara Remington
Maison Premiere’s Absinthe Colada
An absinthe-spiked take on the classic.
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Paddington
A Hemingway Daiquiri variation made with orange marmalade, Paddington Bear’s treat of choice.
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Hurricane
A powerful, fruity drink popularized in 1940s New Orleans.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger
Painkiller
With coconut cream, pineapple and orange juice and a Virgin Islands birthplace sometime in the 1970s, this rum-based cocktail is a tropical drink to the core.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger