
We All Deserve a Crusta
Give yourself the gift of a royally sugar-crowned sour.
- story: Punch Staff
- photo: Lizzie Munro
Give yourself the gift of a royally sugar-crowned sour.
Key to a number of historic cocktails, the garnish’s place in the modern bar is up for debate.
Meet the Crusta, a fussy mid-19th-century drink that few people have heard of, let alone drunk—and one that is seeing something of a revival today. Lizzie Munro explains the obscure…
Invented in the 1850s in New Orleans, the Brandy Crusta was one of the city’s first true calling-card cocktails.