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Jerry Thomas

Cocktails

The Mocktail Has Been Here All Along

Much like its spirited counterpart, the world of non-alcoholic drinks experienced its first Golden Age more than a century ago.

  • story: Robert Simonson
  • photo: Lizzie Munro
Cocktails

How Well Do You Actually Know the Toddy?

A quintessential winter warmer, the toddy's simple formula has remained largely unchanged for centuries. Here, get to know the toddy in classic recipes and their modern interpretations.

  • story: Chloe Frechette
  • photo: Daniel Krieger
Cocktails

The Siren Song of the Jell-O Shot

The Jell-O shot has mostly been banished to the ghetto of ingenious underage drinking. But there's beauty in that. Regan Hofmann on the surprising origins and nostalgic pleasures of jellied…

  • story: Regan Hofmann
  • photo: Bryan Bank
Cocktails

Keeping Up With the Collinses

There are few ways to mess up the classic Collins formula, and so many possibilities to improve upon it. With dozens of variations—from the addition of grapefruit and raspberries to…

  • story: Punch Staff
  • photo: Daniel Krieger
recipe

Japanese Cocktail

First appearing in Jerry Thomas’s 1862 How to Mix Drinks, the Japanese Cocktail is accompanied with no explanation of its namesake, nor do its ingredients lead one to believe it…

  • story: Leslie Pariseau
  • photo: Daniel Krieger
Cocktails

They Go Where You Go: DIY Bottled Cocktails

Bottled cocktails may seem a recent novelty, but bartenders have been throwing spirits in a bottle since Jerry Thomas's day. Kenzi Wilbur breaks down the DIY art of the to-go…

  • story: Kenzi Wilbur
  • photo: Jeffrey Morgenthaler
Cocktails

Searching for the Modern-Day Jerry Thomas

Equal parts swagger and hammer—with the "soul of a poet" and the fashion sense of a sailor—Tom Vaught is the modern-day embodiment of the legendary 19th-century bartender Jerry Thomas.

  • story: David Wondrich
  • photo: Doron Gild
Cocktails

Is the Era of the Bar Manual Over?

In the modern-day search for cocktail recipes, what is lost with the immediacy of an internet search? Andrew Amelinckx pages through the 150-year history of the bar book to recall…

  • story: Andrew Amelinckx
  • photo: Cocktail Kingdom
recipe

Blue Blazer

The Blue Blazer is a simple drink which just happens to entail rolling flaming whiskey back and forth between two metal mugs

  • story: Chloe Frechette
recipe

Tom and Jerry

A descendent of Eggnog, the Tom and Jerry was created sometime in the early 19th century, most likely in New England. While a pain-in-the-ass to mix, it's a drink well-worth…

  • story: Leslie Pariseau
  • photo: Daniel Krieger
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The Resurgence of the Lion’s Tail

How a quirky Prohibition-era bourbon cocktail came to manifest on U.S. drink menus right now.

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