Old Man Drinks: Recipes, Advice, and Barstool Wisdom
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Old Man Drinks - Robert Schnakenberg
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INTRODUCTION
SO YOU’VE MADE THE DECISION to start drinking like an old man. Congratulations on a great call! You’re about to enter the final frontier of cocktail culture, a vast badlands where antique ingredients and fanciful names combine to create a drinking experience unlike any other—or at least unlike anything that anyone’s experienced since at least the final months of the Eisenhower administration. In some cases, the recipes you’ll find in this book date back to the nineteenth century—or even earlier. Call them really old man drinks. These are cocktails your great-grandfather would have remembered fondly from his early drinking days—a time of zoot suits and snap-brimmed hats and vendors selling pickles out of open barrels on the sidewalk. A time when a fella could saunter into his local tavern, slap his hand on the bar, and say, Barkeep, fix me up a Sidecar!
—and not get himself laughed out of the room.
Fortunately, that time may be on its way back. Retro is in and everything old is new again—or at least new in the eyes of discriminating drinkers eager to take their style cues from 1960s advertising executives, hardboiled private eyes, Jazz-era night-club denizens, and other icons of our distant past. The one thing all these men had in common was a fondness for liquor—and lots of it. And we’re talkin’ the hard stuff: gin, Scotch, bourbon, and, of course, rye, the quintessential old-school whiskey whose very odor on the breath calls to mind your grandpa passed out on the couch at 2 A.M. on Christmas Eve. You won’t find too many frou-frou girly drinks listed here. (Okay, you might find one or two, but even the hardest-drinking old man likes a change of pace every now and then.) Save your Woo Woos and your Cosmopolitans for the next meeting of the Ladies’ Auxiliary. These are tough drinks, manly drinks, the kind the bartender has to check his cheat sheet to remember how to make. They take you back to another place and a distant time—and not just because of the high alcohol content. You can almost smell the wood paneling and cigar smoke as you inhale their names: the Whiskey Sour, the Boilermaker, the Old Fashioned, and on and on.
To evoke the experience of drinking like an old man even more fully, we’ve included quotations from honest-to-goodness genuine old men, overheard in bar settings and reprinted with the permission of the utterer. In this way, you may drink in the observations of the old man you wish to emulate, even as you drink down the type of beverage that inspired his insight in the first place. As you make these drinks at home, or order them from a bewildered bartender, imagine yourself pulling up a stool next to some garrulous old-timer and engaging him in the most felicitous of conversations: one fueled by alcohol and good fellowship and brimming with intergenerational wisdom. At that moment, you will not merely be drinking like an old man. You will become one.
ALGONQUIN
Rye is the whiskey in this drink, which is named after the celebrated New York City hotel where literary luminaries once gathered. And wry was the type of wit dispensed around the hotel’s fabled round table by Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, and their highfalutin’ friends. But none of them ever drank an Algonquin at the Algonquin, because it was invented long after most of them had moved on to the Great Round Table in the sky. Too bad. This tart cocktail would have been right up Dorothy’s alley.
Ingredients
2 ounces rye
1 ounce dry vermouth
1 ounce pineapple juice
Maraschino cherry
Preparation
Combine liquid ingredients in a cocktail shaker. Shake vigorously with ice. Strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a Maraschino cherry.