http://chanticleersociety.org/wikis/cocktails/default.aspxA collection of articles which provide historical information associated with individual cocktails.en-USCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)http://chanticleersociety.org/wikis/cocktails/twentieth-century-cocktail/revision/0.aspxSat, 16 Jun 2012 06:38:37 GMTab16d238-d288-4c4b-8334-8811e5ee88a1:27Cocktail CodexCurrent revision posted to Cocktail History by Cocktail Codex on 6/16/2012 2:38:37 AM<br /> <p>Twentieth Century Cocktail</p> <p>While having a few modifications through the years, with various publications, the original recipe from the Cafe Royal Cocktail book 1937, needs no substitute.</p> <p>1 1/1 oz dry gin</p> <p>3/4 oz white Lillet</p> <p>3/4 oz white creme de cacao</p> <p>3/4 oz frsh lemon juice</p> <p>Shake with ice and strain up into cocktail glass.</p> <p>A classic due for resurrection!</p> <p>source http://www.cocktailcodex.com</p> <p>Cheers</p>http://chanticleersociety.org/wikis/cocktails/spirited-holidays/revision/0.aspxMon, 31 Oct 2011 02:23:33 GMTab16d238-d288-4c4b-8334-8811e5ee88a1:25Robert HessCurrent revision posted to Cocktail History by Robert Hess on 10/30/2011 10:23:33 PM<br /> <h2>Spirited Holidays</h2> <p>Below are a collection of &quot;not necessarily highly researched&quot; days which appear to be in some way cocktail/drink related. We should try to add and update to this list when additional dates, or additional information comes to light.</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;"></span></b>&nbsp;</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">JANUARY</span></b></p> <p>National Hot Tea Month</p> <p>National Irish Coffee Week (4^th week)</p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bloody Mary Day (sometimes... See December 1)</p> <p>11&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Hot Toddy Day</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prohibition began (1920)</p> <p>17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Hot Buttered Rum Day</p> <p>19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Champagne Day</p> <p>24&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Beer Can was introduced (1935)</p> <p>25&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Robbie Burns Day</p> <p>25&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Irish Coffee Day</p> <p>31&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Brandy Alexander Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">FEBRUARY</span></b></p> <p>First Saturday of February:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pisco Sour Day<br />The National Day of Pisco Sour is celebrated every first Saturday of February, according to a resolution of the Ministry of Production published in 2004. Before that, it was celebrated on February 8th.</p> <p><span style="background: SpringGreen;">4</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="background: SpringGreen;">1862</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">-</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Facundo</span> <strong><span style="background: SpringGreen;">Bacardi</span></strong> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Masso</span><span style="background: SpringGreen;">,</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">and</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">his</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">brother</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Jose</span><span style="background: SpringGreen;">,</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">bought</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">the</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Santiago</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">de</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Cuba</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">distillery</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">and</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">started</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">making</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">rum</span><span style="background: SpringGreen;">.</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">(</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacardi"><span style="background: SpringGreen;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacardi</span></a><span style="background: SpringGreen;">)</span></p> <p>7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Hangover Awareness Day</p> <p>10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rum and Coca Cola by Andrews Sisters hits #1 (1945)</p> <p>11&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Don&#39;t Cry Over Split Milk Day</p> <p>17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Caf&eacute; Au Lait Day</p> <p>18&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Drink Wine Day</p> <p>22&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Margarita Day</p> <p>22&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Don Beach&#39;s Birthday</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Kahlua Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">MARCH</span></b></p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Beer Day (in Iceland) - March 1, 1989 is when the 74 year prohibition of beer ended in Iceland. This apparently is a well-celebrated holiday in Iceland.</p> <p>3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Mulled Wine Day</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; First tavern in U.S. opens (1634)</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bock Beer Day</p> <p>17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; St. Patrick&#39;s Day</p> <p>17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Green Beer Day</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bock Beer Day</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The corkscrew is patented (1860)</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">APRIL</span></b></p> <p>8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Milk in Glass Bottles Day</p> <p>15&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Income Tax Day (also Accountant&#39;s Day)</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Kingsley Amis&#39; Birthday (1922) Gravesite reads &quot;supreme clubman, boozer and blimp.&quot;</p> <p>19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Alcohol Content allowed on labels (1955)</p> <p>26&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Pretzel Day - celebrate this one with a beer</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">MAY</span></b></p> <p>National Egg Month</p> <p>Second Week: American Craft Beer Week</p> <p>Second Week: World Cocktail Week (Designated by The Museum of the American Cocktail)</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Homebrew Day</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Orange Juice Day</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bourbon Whiskey Defined (1964)</p> <p><a href="http://www.justaddbourbon.com/bourbonbuzz/print.aspx?id=209">http://www.justaddbourbon.com/bourbonbuzz/print.aspx?id=209</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Senate Concurrent Resolution 19</p> <p>In the Senate of the United States</p> <p>May 4, 1964</p> <p>Ordered to be printed as passed</p> <p>Concurrent Resolution</p> <p>Whereas it has been the commercial policy of the United States to recognize marks of origin a applicable to alcoholic beverages imported into the United States; and </p> <p>Whereas such commercial policy has been implemented by the promulgation of appropriate regulations which: among other things, establish standards of identity for such imported alcoholic beverages; and</p> <p>Whereas among the standards of identity which have been established are those for &quot;Scotch whiskey&quot; as a distinctive product of Scotland, manufactured in Scotland in compliance with the laws of Great Britain regulating the manufacture of Scotch whisky for consumption in Great Britain and for &quot;Canadian whisky&quot; as a distinctive product of Canada manufactured in Canada in compliance with the laws of the Dominion of Canada regulating the manufacture of whisky for the consumption in Canada and for &quot;Cognac&quot; as grape brandy distilled in the Cognac region of France, which is entitled to be so designated by the laws and regulations of the French Government; and</p> <p>Whereas &quot;Bourbon whisky&quot; is a distinctive product of the United States and is unlike other types of alcoholic beverages, whether foreign or domestic; and</p> <p>Whereas to be entitled to the designation &quot;Bourbon whisky&quot; the product must conform to the highest standards and must be manufactured in accordance with the laws and regulations of the United States which prescribe a standard of identity for &quot;Bourbon whiskey&quot;; and</p> <p>Whereas Bourbon whisky has achieved recognition and acceptance throughout the world as a distinctive product of the United States:</p> <p>Now, therefore, be it</p> <p>Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring),</p> <p>That it is the sense of Congress the recognition of Bourbon whisky as a distinctive product of the United States be brought to the attention of the appropriate agencies of the United States Government toward the end that such agencies will take appropriate action to prohibit the importation into the United States of whisky designated as &quot;Bourbon whiskey.&quot;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cinco de Mayo</p> <p>6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Beverage Day</p> <p>6-13&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;World Cocktail Week</p> <p>8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;Have A Coke&quot; day</p> <p>13&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; World Cocktail Day: The word &quot;cocktail&quot; is first&nbsp;defined in print (1806)</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Charles Hires invents Root Beer (1866)</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Last episode of &quot;Cheers&quot; airs (1993)</p> <p>25&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Wine Day</p> <p>28&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ian Fleming&#39;s Birthday (1908)</p> <p>30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Mint Julep Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">JUNE</span></b></p> <p>National Ice Tea Month</p> <p>National Dairy Lovers Month</p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Scotch Whiskey Day (mine)</p> <p>Friar John Cor was recorded on June 1, 1494 as procuring supplies for the making of copious amounts of whisky for his Majesty, Jimie the IV. Not particularly an event of note excepting that this is the first known recorded use of the word whiskey and indicatory of a healthy and long established tradition of distilling whisky in Great Briton, else wise he&#39;d not been making 1500 bottles of the stuff.</p> <p>&quot;To Friar John Cor, by order of the King, to make aqua vitae VIII bolls of malt.&quot; - Exchequer Rolls 1494-95, Vol x, p. 487.</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Cognac Day</p> <p>7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dean Martin is born (1917)</p> <p>8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Vodka Day (mine)</p> <p>The first written usage of the word vodka in an official Russian document in its modern meaning is dated by the decree of Empress Elizabeth of June 8, 1751, which regulated the ownership of vodka distilleries.</p> <p>10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Iced Tea Day</p> <p>12&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cachaca Day<br />From: <a href="http://www.brazzil.com/p25jul96.htm">http://www.brazzil.com/p25jul96.htm</a><br />&quot; The SBC (Sociedade Brasileira da Cacha&ccedil;a) wants to declare June 12 the International Day of Cacha&ccedil;a because June 12, 1744, Portugal, then colonizer of Brazil, prohibited the production and distribution of cacha&ccedil;a in the country.&quot;</p> <p>19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Martini Day</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ice Cream Soda Day</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Orange Blossom Day</p> <p>30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Ice Cream Soda Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">JULY</span></b></p> <p>2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Anisette Day</p> <p>10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Pina Colada Day</p> <p>14&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Grand Marnier Day</p> <p>19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Daiquiri Day</p> <p>24&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Tequila Day</p> <p>26&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Coffee Milkshake Day</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Scotch Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">AUGUST</span></b></p> <p>2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Peter O&#39;Toole&#39;s Birthday (1932)</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Champagne is &quot;said&quot; to have been invented by Dom Perignon on this day in 1693.<br />It was said that upon his first taste of his sparkling champagne wine he announced &quot;Come quickly, I am drinking stars!&quot;. However sparkling wine was known before this time, one possible originator was Christopher Merret, who published in 1662 an account of making wines &quot;brisk and sparkling&quot; by adding sugars to them. Dom&#39;s quote is probably also more marketing than actual fact, since its first appearance is in a print advertisement in the late 19th century. This should not undermine Dom Perignon&#39;s value to the history of Champagne, because he did work tirelessly on advancing and perfecting the art, and almost certainly the product we drink today owes more than a small debt to his efforts.</p> <p>5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; International Beer Day (<a href="http://internationalbeerday.com/">http://internationalbeerday.com/</a>) Apparently &quot;first celebrated&quot; on August 5^th, 2007, and henceforth christened.</p> <p>&quot;On the night in question, we were beerstorming (drinking lots of beer in an effort to come up with brilliant ideas) band names for a friend&#39;s new band, but a couple of hours into the evening, talk turned to how wonderful beerstorming itself was. After thoroughly discussing beerstorming&#39;s merits someone declared that there should be a beer holiday.&quot;</p> <p>6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Root Beer Float Day</p> <p>9&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Diet Coke introduced (1982)</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Rum Day</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lemonade Day</p> <p>29&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Whisky Sour Day</p> <p>29&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lemon Juice Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">SEPTEMBER</span></b></p> <p>California Wine Month</p> <p>2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Beer &amp; Can Day</p> <p>12&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Chocolate Milkshake Day</p> <p>15&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Cr&egrave;me de Menthe Day</p> <p>19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Talk like a Pirate Day</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Rum Punch Day</p> <p>21&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dale DeGroff&#39;s Birthday</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Chocolate Milk Day</p> <p>28&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Drink Beer Day</p> <p>29&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Coffee Day</p> <p>30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Mulled Cider Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">OCTOBER</span></b></p> <p>American Beer Week (2^nd week)</p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sake Day (Nihonshu no Hi)<br /><a href="http://www.sake-world.com/html/sw-2004_9.html">http://www.sake-world.com/html/sw-2004_9.html</a><br />Why October 1? Several reasons. The biggest is related to the written character for sake. (For those that do not know what it looks like, go to my site at www.sake-world.com and look in the lower left-hand corner. It is the first of the three characters below the &quot;search site&quot; box.) Long ago, it consisted of only the right half of its current form; it did not contain the three short lines on the left that represent water. It consisted only of the part that was made to look like a jar, indicating something holding liquid, which was of course an alcoholic beverage of some sort in the mind of those reading the character. </p> <p>Enter the Chinese zodiac: 12 animal signs that are traditionally used to number years in sequence, as well as months, as well as consecutive two-hour periods in each 24-hour day. The tenth of these, corresponding to the tenth month (and the tenth year and the tenth hour) is tori, or chicken (or perhaps rooster or cock). However, the written characters assigned to each of these animals are not the standard characters for the animals themselves, but rather special characters and readings applied only for these zodiacal instances. </p> <p>This is where my detailed knowledge of Chinese characters and their adoption into Japanese breaks down and fades into near oblivion. For some reason, the ancient character for sake described above has been assigned to the tenth animal. It currently does not have any other use in either language. (The character, that is. Not the chicken. Chickens have lots of uses. But I digress again.) </p> <p>So, by fortuitous coincidence, October is represented in the ancient Chinese zodiac system, also embraced by Japan, by the old character for sake. Well, isn&#39;t that *convenient*. Sake brewing begins in the fall, usually in October. In fact, until a few decades ago, the fiscal year for sake brewers began on October 1 for that reason. As technology advanced to the point that brewers were able to start brewing much earlier and continue much later in the spring than before, that tax-related fiscal day was changed to July 1, but the original date of October 1 was certainly more apropos until recently. </p> <p>Indeed, October represents a beginning in the sake world: the beginning of a new brewing season. And the first day of this month is certainly a day worthy of note and some celebration in the sake world. And that is why October 1 is known as &quot;Nihonshu no Hi,&quot; or &quot;Sake Day,&quot; in Japan.</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Vodka Day</p> <p>5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bloody Mary??</p> <p>http://www.ediblecommunities.com/manhattan/september/october-2009/notable-edibles.htm</p> <p>Legend has it the world&#39;s first Bloody Mary was shaken precisely 75 years ago, on October 5, 1934-just five years after the invention of canned tomato juice-at the King Cole Bar in the St. Regis, the now-100-year-old beaux arts hotel founded by John Jacob Astor at the eminently exclusive corner of Fifth Avenue and 55th Street.</p> <p>Back then the bar served a worldly mix of socialites, including Serge Obolensky, vice chairman of the board of Hilton Hotels and a Russian native with a penchant for vodka. Obolensky asked barkeep Fernand Petiot, who&#39;d also tended a hotel bar in Paris, to re-create the vodka and tomato juice cocktail Obolensky had recently swilled in that city, and Mary-complete with salt, pepper, lemon and Worcestershire sauce and named for the Catholic English queen who had killed so many Protestants-was born.</p> <p>7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Frappe Day</p> <p>11&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; World Egg Day</p> <p>12&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; First Oktoberfest Celebrated (1810) - it was actually a party to celebrate the wedding of Crown Prince Ludwig and Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen. [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oktoberfest">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oktoberfest</a>}</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Liqueur Day</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Brandied Fruit Day</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; American Beer Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">NOVEMBER</span></b></p> <p>National Pomegranate Month</p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Birth of Jerry Thomas (or there abouts) in 1830, or was it 1829?</p> <p>8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Harvey Wallbanger Day</p> <p>24&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Espresso Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">DECEMBER</span></b></p> <p>National Egg Nog Month</p> <p>Second Week: Lager Beer Week</p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bloody Mary Day</p> <p>There is some dispute and some confusion regarding when the Bloody Mary was first concocted, and by who, and frankly, even what the recipe was. Many say that Fernand Petoit first created it at Harry&#39;s American Bar in Paris during the 1920&#39;s, where it was essentially just tomato juice and Vodka (vodka was available in Paris before it was being regularly seen in the US). Mr. Petoit then moved to the US in the 1930&#39;s where he was the head bartender at New York&#39;s St. Regis hotel. It is here that it is said that the drink went through a number of changes. First was that the more common gin was used instead of vodka. That it got the addition of Worcestershire, lemon juice, and Tabasco. And that it was given the name &quot;Red Snapper&quot; to be less vulgar. Later on, vodka would have been switched back in as the spirit, and the drink returned to its original name of Bloody Mary.</p> <p>There are those however who point to George Jessel as being the originator of the drink. He himself has some slightly conflicting stories, one claims (from &quot;The World I Lived In&quot; 1975) that it was in 1927 in Palm Beach, that he mixed vodka, Worcestershire sauce, tomato juice and lemon to help with a hangover. But in an Ad that appeared in Colliers Magazine, March 30, 1956, George Jessel claims that he simply mixed (Smirnoff) vodka and tomato juice together.</p> <p>In an interview with Fernand Petoit which appeared in the July 18, 1964 edition of the New Yorker, Mr. Petoit says: &quot;...George Jessel said he created it, but it was really nothing but vodka and tomato juice when I took it over. I cover the bottom of the shaker with four large dashes of salt, two dashes of black pepper, two dashes of cayenne pepper, and a layer of Worcestershire sauce; I then add a dash of lemon juice and some cracked ice, put in two ounces of vodka and two ounces of thick tomaoto juice, shake, strain, and pour.&quot;</p> <p>So it appear as though that while there is some contradictory overlapping of these stories, the thread of commonality here is that Mr. Petoit admits as to not as specifically &quot;inventing&quot; the drink, but &quot;perfecting&quot; it.</p> <p>5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prohibition repealed in U.S. (1933)</p> <p>10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Lager Day</p> <p>12&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Ambrosia Day</p> <p>13&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Cocoa Day</p> <p>14&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Death of Jerry Thomas (1885)</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Sangria Day</p> <p>24&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Eggnog Day</p> <p>30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Bicarbonate Of Soda Day</p> <p>31&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Champagne Day</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Coffee Days:</p> <p>May 6 = National Coffee Day</p> <p>May 24 = National Coffee Day in Brazil</p> <p>July 22 = Coffee Week</p> <p>July 24= Coffee Day</p> <p>August = National Coffee Month</p> <p>September 12 = National Coffee Day in Costa Rica</p> <p>September 19 = National Coffee Day in Ireland</p> <p>September 29 = National Coffee Day</p> <p>October 1 = National Coffee Day in Japan</p> <p>November 24 = National Espresso Day</p> <p>December 26 = Coffee Percolator Day</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Websites:</p> <p><a href="http://www.thenibble.com/fun/more/facts/food-holidays.asp">http://www.thenibble.com/fun/more/facts/food-holidays.asp</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.tfdutch.com/foodh.htm">http://www.tfdutch.com/foodh.htm</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/National_Symbols/American_Hollidays.html">http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/National_Symbols/American_Hollidays.html</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.partyguideonline.com/months/Gregorian.html">http://www.partyguideonline.com/months/Gregorian.html</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.mypunchbowl.com/holidays/">http://www.mypunchbowl.com/holidays/</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.anyexcuseforaparty.com/excuses.htm">http://www.anyexcuseforaparty.com/excuses.htm</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>http://chanticleersociety.org/wikis/cocktails/spirited-holidays/revision/5.aspxMon, 17 Oct 2011 22:43:09 GMTab16d238-d288-4c4b-8334-8811e5ee88a1:83Robert HessRevision 5 posted to Cocktail History by Robert Hess on 10/17/2011 6:43:09 PM<br /> <h2>Spirited Holidays</h2> <p>Below are a collection of &quot;not necessarily highly researched&quot; days which appear to be in some way cocktail/drink related. We should try to add and update to this list when additional dates, or additional information comes to light.</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;"></span></b>&nbsp;</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">JANUARY</span></b></p> <p>National Hot Tea Month</p> <p>National Irish Coffee Week (4^th week)</p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bloody Mary Day (sometimes... See December 1)</p> <p>11&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Hot Toddy Day</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prohibition began (1920)</p> <p>17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Hot Buttered Rum Day</p> <p>19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Champagne Day</p> <p>24&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Beer Can was introduced (1935)</p> <p>25&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Robbie Burns Day</p> <p>25&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Irish Coffee Day</p> <p>31&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Brandy Alexander Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">FEBRUARY</span></b></p> <p>First Saturday of February:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pisco Sour Day<br />The National Day of Pisco Sour is celebrated every first Saturday of February, according to a resolution of the Ministry of Production published in 2004. Before that, it was celebrated on February 8th.</p> <p>7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Hangover Awareness Day</p> <p>10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rum and Coca Cola by Andrews Sisters hits #1 (1945)</p> <p>11&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Don&#39;t Cry Over Split Milk Day</p> <p>17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Caf&eacute; Au Lait Day</p> <p>18&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Drink Wine Day</p> <p>22&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Margarita Day</p> <p>22&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Don Beach&#39;s Birthday</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Kahlua Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">MARCH</span></b></p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Beer Day (in Iceland) - March 1, 1989 is when the 74 year prohibition of beer ended in Iceland. This apparently is a well-celebrated holiday in Iceland.</p> <p>3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Mulled Wine Day</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; First tavern in U.S. opens (1634)</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bock Beer Day</p> <p>17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; St. Patrick&#39;s Day</p> <p>17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Green Beer Day</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bock Beer Day</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The corkscrew is patented (1860)</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">APRIL</span></b></p> <p>8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Milk in Glass Bottles Day</p> <p>15&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Income Tax Day (also Accountant&#39;s Day)</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Kingsley Amis&#39; Birthday (1922) Gravesite reads &quot;supreme clubman, boozer and blimp.&quot;</p> <p>19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Alcohol Content allowed on labels (1955)</p> <p>26&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Pretzel Day - celebrate this one with a beer</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">MAY</span></b></p> <p>National Egg Month</p> <p>Second Week: American Craft Beer Week</p> <p>Second Week: World Cocktail Week (Designated by The Museum of the American Cocktail)</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Homebrew Day</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Orange Juice Day</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bourbon Whiskey Defined (1964)</p> <p><a href="http://www.justaddbourbon.com/bourbonbuzz/print.aspx?id=209">http://www.justaddbourbon.com/bourbonbuzz/print.aspx?id=209</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Senate Concurrent Resolution 19</p> <p>In the Senate of the United States</p> <p>May 4, 1964</p> <p>Ordered to be printed as passed</p> <p>Concurrent Resolution</p> <p>Whereas it has been the commercial policy of the United States to recognize marks of origin a applicable to alcoholic beverages imported into the United States; and </p> <p>Whereas such commercial policy has been implemented by the promulgation of appropriate regulations which: among other things, establish standards of identity for such imported alcoholic beverages; and</p> <p>Whereas among the standards of identity which have been established are those for &quot;Scotch whiskey&quot; as a distinctive product of Scotland, manufactured in Scotland in compliance with the laws of Great Britain regulating the manufacture of Scotch whisky for consumption in Great Britain and for &quot;Canadian whisky&quot; as a distinctive product of Canada manufactured in Canada in compliance with the laws of the Dominion of Canada regulating the manufacture of whisky for the consumption in Canada and for &quot;Cognac&quot; as grape brandy distilled in the Cognac region of France, which is entitled to be so designated by the laws and regulations of the French Government; and</p> <p>Whereas &quot;Bourbon whisky&quot; is a distinctive product of the United States and is unlike other types of alcoholic beverages, whether foreign or domestic; and</p> <p>Whereas to be entitled to the designation &quot;Bourbon whisky&quot; the product must conform to the highest standards and must be manufactured in accordance with the laws and regulations of the United States which prescribe a standard of identity for &quot;Bourbon whiskey&quot;; and</p> <p>Whereas Bourbon whisky has achieved recognition and acceptance throughout the world as a distinctive product of the United States:</p> <p>Now, therefore, be it</p> <p>Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring),</p> <p>That it is the sense of Congress the recognition of Bourbon whisky as a distinctive product of the United States be brought to the attention of the appropriate agencies of the United States Government toward the end that such agencies will take appropriate action to prohibit the importation into the United States of whisky designated as &quot;Bourbon whiskey.&quot;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cinco de Mayo</p> <p>6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Beverage Day</p> <p>6-13&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;World Cocktail Week</p> <p>8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;Have A Coke&quot; day</p> <p>13&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; World Cocktail Day: The word &quot;cocktail&quot; is first&nbsp;defined in print (1806)</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Charles Hires invents Root Beer (1866)</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Last episode of &quot;Cheers&quot; airs (1993)</p> <p>25&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Wine Day</p> <p>28&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ian Fleming&#39;s Birthday (1908)</p> <p>30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Mint Julep Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">JUNE</span></b></p> <p>National Ice Tea Month</p> <p>National Dairy Lovers Month</p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Scotch Whiskey Day (mine)</p> <p>Friar John Cor was recorded on June 1, 1494 as procuring supplies for the making of copious amounts of whisky for his Majesty, Jimie the IV. Not particularly an event of note excepting that this is the first known recorded use of the word whiskey and indicatory of a healthy and long established tradition of distilling whisky in Great Briton, else wise he&#39;d not been making 1500 bottles of the stuff.</p> <p>&quot;To Friar John Cor, by order of the King, to make aqua vitae VIII bolls of malt.&quot; - Exchequer Rolls 1494-95, Vol x, p. 487.</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Cognac Day</p> <p>7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dean Martin is born (1917)</p> <p>8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Vodka Day (mine)</p> <p>The first written usage of the word vodka in an official Russian document in its modern meaning is dated by the decree of Empress Elizabeth of June 8, 1751, which regulated the ownership of vodka distilleries.</p> <p>10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Iced Tea Day</p> <p>12&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cachaca Day<br />From: <a href="http://www.brazzil.com/p25jul96.htm">http://www.brazzil.com/p25jul96.htm</a><br />&quot; The SBC (Sociedade Brasileira da Cacha&ccedil;a) wants to declare June 12 the International Day of Cacha&ccedil;a because June 12, 1744, Portugal, then colonizer of Brazil, prohibited the production and distribution of cacha&ccedil;a in the country.&quot;</p> <p>19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Martini Day</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ice Cream Soda Day</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Orange Blossom Day</p> <p>30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Ice Cream Soda Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">JULY</span></b></p> <p>2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Anisette Day</p> <p>10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Pina Colada Day</p> <p>14&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Grand Marnier Day</p> <p>19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Daiquiri Day</p> <p>24&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Tequila Day</p> <p>26&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Coffee Milkshake Day</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Scotch Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">AUGUST</span></b></p> <p>2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Peter O&#39;Toole&#39;s Birthday (1932)</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Champagne is &quot;said&quot; to have been invented by Dom Perignon on this day in 1693.<br />It was said that upon his first taste of his sparkling champagne wine he announced &quot;Come quickly, I am drinking stars!&quot;. However sparkling wine was known before this time, one possible originator was Christopher Merret, who published in 1662 an account of making wines &quot;brisk and sparkling&quot; by adding sugars to them. Dom&#39;s quote is probably also more marketing than actual fact, since its first appearance is in a print advertisement in the late 19th century. This should not undermine Dom Perignon&#39;s value to the history of Champagne, because he did work tirelessly on advancing and perfecting the art, and almost certainly the product we drink today owes more than a small debt to his efforts.</p> <p>5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; International Beer Day (<a href="http://internationalbeerday.com/">http://internationalbeerday.com/</a>) Apparently &quot;first celebrated&quot; on August 5^th, 2007, and henceforth christened.</p> <p>&quot;On the night in question, we were beerstorming (drinking lots of beer in an effort to come up with brilliant ideas) band names for a friend&#39;s new band, but a couple of hours into the evening, talk turned to how wonderful beerstorming itself was. After thoroughly discussing beerstorming&#39;s merits someone declared that there should be a beer holiday.&quot;</p> <p>6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Root Beer Float Day</p> <p>9&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Diet Coke introduced (1982)</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Rum Day</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lemonade Day</p> <p>29&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Whisky Sour Day</p> <p>29&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lemon Juice Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">SEPTEMBER</span></b></p> <p>California Wine Month</p> <p>2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Beer &amp; Can Day</p> <p>12&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Chocolate Milkshake Day</p> <p>15&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Cr&egrave;me de Menthe Day</p> <p>19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Talk like a Pirate Day</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Rum Punch Day</p> <p>21&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dale DeGroff&#39;s Birthday</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Chocolate Milk Day</p> <p>28&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Drink Beer Day</p> <p>29&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Coffee Day</p> <p>30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Mulled Cider Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">OCTOBER</span></b></p> <p>American Beer Week (2^nd week)</p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sake Day (Nihonshu no Hi)<br /><a href="http://www.sake-world.com/html/sw-2004_9.html">http://www.sake-world.com/html/sw-2004_9.html</a><br />Why October 1? Several reasons. The biggest is related to the written character for sake. (For those that do not know what it looks like, go to my site at www.sake-world.com and look in the lower left-hand corner. It is the first of the three characters below the &quot;search site&quot; box.) Long ago, it consisted of only the right half of its current form; it did not contain the three short lines on the left that represent water. It consisted only of the part that was made to look like a jar, indicating something holding liquid, which was of course an alcoholic beverage of some sort in the mind of those reading the character. </p> <p>Enter the Chinese zodiac: 12 animal signs that are traditionally used to number years in sequence, as well as months, as well as consecutive two-hour periods in each 24-hour day. The tenth of these, corresponding to the tenth month (and the tenth year and the tenth hour) is tori, or chicken (or perhaps rooster or cock). However, the written characters assigned to each of these animals are not the standard characters for the animals themselves, but rather special characters and readings applied only for these zodiacal instances. </p> <p>This is where my detailed knowledge of Chinese characters and their adoption into Japanese breaks down and fades into near oblivion. For some reason, the ancient character for sake described above has been assigned to the tenth animal. It currently does not have any other use in either language. (The character, that is. Not the chicken. Chickens have lots of uses. But I digress again.) </p> <p>So, by fortuitous coincidence, October is represented in the ancient Chinese zodiac system, also embraced by Japan, by the old character for sake. Well, isn&#39;t that *convenient*. Sake brewing begins in the fall, usually in October. In fact, until a few decades ago, the fiscal year for sake brewers began on October 1 for that reason. As technology advanced to the point that brewers were able to start brewing much earlier and continue much later in the spring than before, that tax-related fiscal day was changed to July 1, but the original date of October 1 was certainly more apropos until recently. </p> <p>Indeed, October represents a beginning in the sake world: the beginning of a new brewing season. And the first day of this month is certainly a day worthy of note and some celebration in the sake world. And that is why October 1 is known as &quot;Nihonshu no Hi,&quot; or &quot;Sake Day,&quot; in Japan.</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Vodka Day</p> <p>5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bloody Mary??</p> <p>http://www.ediblecommunities.com/manhattan/september/october-2009/notable-edibles.htm</p> <p>Legend has it the world&#39;s first Bloody Mary was shaken precisely 75 years ago, on October 5, 1934-just five years after the invention of canned tomato juice-at the King Cole Bar in the St. Regis, the now-100-year-old beaux arts hotel founded by John Jacob Astor at the eminently exclusive corner of Fifth Avenue and 55th Street.</p> <p>Back then the bar served a worldly mix of socialites, including Serge Obolensky, vice chairman of the board of Hilton Hotels and a Russian native with a penchant for vodka. Obolensky asked barkeep Fernand Petiot, who&#39;d also tended a hotel bar in Paris, to re-create the vodka and tomato juice cocktail Obolensky had recently swilled in that city, and Mary-complete with salt, pepper, lemon and Worcestershire sauce and named for the Catholic English queen who had killed so many Protestants-was born.</p> <p>7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Frappe Day</p> <p>11&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; World Egg Day</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">16</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">National</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Liqueur</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Day</span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">17</span></p> <p><span style="background: SpringGreen;">12</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; First Oktoberfest Celebrated (1810) <span style="background: SpringGreen;">-</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">it</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">was</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">actually</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">a</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">party</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">to</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">celebrate</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">the</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">wedding</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">of</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Crown</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Prince</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Ludwig</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">and</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Therese</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">of</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Saxony-Hildburghausen</span><span style="background: SpringGreen;">.</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oktoberfest"><span style="background: SpringGreen;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oktoberfest</span></a><span style="background: SpringGreen;">}</span></p> <p><span style="background: SpringGreen;">16</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="background: SpringGreen;">National</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Liqueur</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Day</span></p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Brandied Fruit Day</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; American Beer Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">NOVEMBER</span></b></p> <p>National Pomegranate Month</p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Birth of Jerry Thomas (or there abouts) in 1830, or was it 1829?</p> <p>8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Harvey Wallbanger Day</p> <p>24&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Espresso Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">DECEMBER</span></b></p> <p>National Egg Nog Month</p> <p>Second Week: Lager Beer Week</p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bloody Mary Day</p> <p>There is some dispute and some confusion regarding when the Bloody Mary was first concocted, and by who, and frankly, even what the recipe was. Many say that Fernand Petoit first created it at Harry&#39;s American Bar in Paris during the 1920&#39;s, where it was essentially just tomato juice and Vodka (vodka was available in Paris before it was being regularly seen in the US). Mr. Petoit then moved to the US in the 1930&#39;s where he was the head bartender at New York&#39;s St. Regis hotel. It is here that it is said that the drink went through a number of changes. First was that the more common gin was used instead of vodka. That it got the addition of Worcestershire, lemon juice, and Tabasco. And that it was given the name &quot;Red Snapper&quot; to be less vulgar. Later on, vodka would have been switched back in as the spirit, and the drink returned to its original name of Bloody Mary.</p> <p>There are those however who point to George Jessel as being the originator of the drink. He himself has some slightly conflicting stories, one claims (from &quot;The World I Lived In&quot; 1975) that it was in 1927 in Palm Beach, that he mixed vodka, Worcestershire sauce, tomato juice and lemon to help with a hangover. But in an Ad that appeared in Colliers Magazine, March 30, 1956, George Jessel claims that he simply mixed (Smirnoff) vodka and tomato juice together.</p> <p>In an interview with Fernand Petoit which appeared in the July 18, 1964 edition of the New Yorker, Mr. Petoit says: &quot;...George Jessel said he created it, but it was really nothing but vodka and tomato juice when I took it over. I cover the bottom of the shaker with four large dashes of salt, two dashes of black pepper, two dashes of cayenne pepper, and a layer of Worcestershire sauce; I then add a dash of lemon juice and some cracked ice, put in two ounces of vodka and two ounces of thick tomaoto juice, shake, strain, and pour.&quot;</p> <p>So it appear as though that while there is some contradictory overlapping of these stories, the thread of commonality here is that Mr. Petoit admits as to not as specifically &quot;inventing&quot; the drink, but &quot;perfecting&quot; it.</p> <p>5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prohibition repealed in U.S. (1933)</p> <p>10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Lager Day</p> <p>12&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Ambrosia Day</p> <p>13&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Cocoa Day</p> <p>14&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Death of Jerry Thomas (1885)</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Sangria Day</p> <p>24&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Eggnog Day</p> <p>30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Bicarbonate Of Soda Day</p> <p>31&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Champagne Day</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Coffee Days:</p> <p>May 6 = National Coffee Day</p> <p>May 24 = National Coffee Day in Brazil</p> <p>July 22 = Coffee Week</p> <p>July 24= Coffee Day</p> <p>August = National Coffee Month</p> <p>September 12 = National Coffee Day in Costa Rica</p> <p>September 19 = National Coffee Day in Ireland</p> <p>September 29 = National Coffee Day</p> <p>October 1 = National Coffee Day in Japan</p> <p>November 24 = National Espresso Day</p> <p>December 26 = Coffee Percolator Day</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Websites:</p> <p><a href="http://www.thenibble.com/fun/more/facts/food-holidays.asp">http://www.thenibble.com/fun/more/facts/food-holidays.asp</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.tfdutch.com/foodh.htm">http://www.tfdutch.com/foodh.htm</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/National_Symbols/American_Hollidays.html">http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/National_Symbols/American_Hollidays.html</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.partyguideonline.com/months/Gregorian.html">http://www.partyguideonline.com/months/Gregorian.html</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.mypunchbowl.com/holidays/">http://www.mypunchbowl.com/holidays/</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.anyexcuseforaparty.com/excuses.htm">http://www.anyexcuseforaparty.com/excuses.htm</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>http://chanticleersociety.org/wikis/cocktails/spirited-holidays/revision/4.aspxWed, 21 Sep 2011 21:15:44 GMTab16d238-d288-4c4b-8334-8811e5ee88a1:82Robert HessRevision 4 posted to Cocktail History by Robert Hess on 9/21/2011 5:15:44 PM<br /> <h2>Spirited Holidays</h2> <p>Below are a collection of &quot;not necessarily highly researched&quot; days which appear to be in some way cocktail/drink related. We should try to add and update to this list when additional dates, or additional information comes to light.</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;"></span></b>&nbsp;</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">JANUARY</span></b></p> <p>National Hot Tea Month</p> <p>National Irish Coffee Week (4^th week)</p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bloody Mary Day (sometimes... See December 1)</p> <p>11&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Hot Toddy Day</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prohibition began (1920)</p> <p>17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Hot Buttered Rum Day</p> <p>19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Champagne Day</p> <p>24&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Beer Can was introduced (1935)</p> <p>25&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Robbie Burns Day</p> <p>25&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Irish Coffee Day</p> <p>31&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Brandy Alexander Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">FEBRUARY</span></b></p> <p>First Saturday of February:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pisco Sour Day<br />The National Day of Pisco Sour is celebrated every first Saturday of February, according to a resolution of the Ministry of Production published in 2004. Before that, it was celebrated on February 8th.</p> <p>7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Hangover Awareness Day</p> <p>10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rum and Coca Cola by Andrews Sisters hits #1 (1945)</p> <p>11&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Don&#39;t Cry Over Split Milk Day</p> <p>17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Caf&eacute; Au Lait Day</p> <p>18&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Drink Wine Day</p> <p>22&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Margarita Day</p> <p>22&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Don Beach&#39;s Birthday</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Kahlua Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">MARCH</span></b></p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Beer Day (in Iceland) - March 1, 1989 is when the 74 year prohibition of beer ended in Iceland. This apparently is a well-celebrated holiday in Iceland.</p> <p>3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Mulled Wine Day</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; First tavern in U.S. opens (1634)</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bock Beer Day</p> <p>17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; St. Patrick&#39;s Day</p> <p>17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Green Beer Day</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bock Beer Day</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The corkscrew is patented (1860)</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">APRIL</span></b></p> <p>8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Milk in Glass Bottles Day</p> <p>15&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Income Tax Day (also Accountant&#39;s Day)</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Kingsley Amis&#39; Birthday (1922) Gravesite reads &quot;supreme clubman, boozer and blimp.&quot;</p> <p>19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Alcohol Content allowed on labels (1955)</p> <p>26&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Pretzel Day - celebrate this one with a beer</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">MAY</span></b></p> <p>National Egg Month</p> <p>Second Week: American Craft Beer Week</p> <p>Second Week: World Cocktail Week (Designated by The Museum of the American Cocktail)</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Homebrew Day</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Orange Juice Day</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bourbon Whiskey Defined (1964)</p> <p><a href="http://www.justaddbourbon.com/bourbonbuzz/print.aspx?id=209">http://www.justaddbourbon.com/bourbonbuzz/print.aspx?id=209</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Senate Concurrent Resolution 19</p> <p>In the Senate of the United States</p> <p>May 4, 1964</p> <p>Ordered to be printed as passed</p> <p>Concurrent Resolution</p> <p>Whereas it has been the commercial policy of the United States to recognize marks of origin a applicable to alcoholic beverages imported into the United States; and </p> <p>Whereas such commercial policy has been implemented by the promulgation of appropriate regulations which: among other things, establish standards of identity for such imported alcoholic beverages; and</p> <p>Whereas among the standards of identity which have been established are those for &quot;Scotch whiskey&quot; as a distinctive product of Scotland, manufactured in Scotland in compliance with the laws of Great Britain regulating the manufacture of Scotch whisky for consumption in Great Britain and for &quot;Canadian whisky&quot; as a distinctive product of Canada manufactured in Canada in compliance with the laws of the Dominion of Canada regulating the manufacture of whisky for the consumption in Canada and for &quot;Cognac&quot; as grape brandy distilled in the Cognac region of France, which is entitled to be so designated by the laws and regulations of the French Government; and</p> <p>Whereas &quot;Bourbon whisky&quot; is a distinctive product of the United States and is unlike other types of alcoholic beverages, whether foreign or domestic; and</p> <p>Whereas to be entitled to the designation &quot;Bourbon whisky&quot; the product must conform to the highest standards and must be manufactured in accordance with the laws and regulations of the United States which prescribe a standard of identity for &quot;Bourbon whiskey&quot;; and</p> <p>Whereas Bourbon whisky has achieved recognition and acceptance throughout the world as a distinctive product of the United States:</p> <p>Now, therefore, be it</p> <p>Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring),</p> <p>That it is the sense of Congress the recognition of Bourbon whisky as a distinctive product of the United States be brought to the attention of the appropriate agencies of the United States Government toward the end that such agencies will take appropriate action to prohibit the importation into the United States of whisky designated as &quot;Bourbon whiskey.&quot;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cinco de Mayo</p> <p>6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Beverage Day</p> <p>6-13&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;World Cocktail Week</p> <p>8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;Have A Coke&quot; day</p> <p>13&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; World Cocktail Day: The word &quot;cocktail&quot; is first&nbsp;defined in print (1806)</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Charles Hires invents Root Beer (1866)</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Last episode of &quot;Cheers&quot; airs (1993)</p> <p>25&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Wine Day</p> <p>28&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ian Fleming&#39;s Birthday (1908)</p> <p>30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Mint Julep Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">JUNE</span></b></p> <p>National Ice Tea Month</p> <p>National Dairy Lovers Month</p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Scotch Whiskey Day (mine)</p> <p>Friar John Cor was recorded on June 1, 1494 as procuring supplies for the making of copious amounts of whisky for his Majesty, Jimie the IV. Not particularly an event of note excepting that this is the first known recorded use of the word whiskey and indicatory of a healthy and long established tradition of distilling whisky in Great Briton, else wise he&#39;d not been making 1500 bottles of the stuff.</p> <p>&quot;To Friar John Cor, by order of the King, to make aqua vitae VIII bolls of malt.&quot; - Exchequer Rolls 1494-95, Vol x, p. 487.</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Cognac Day</p> <p>7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dean Martin is born (1917)</p> <p>8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Vodka Day (mine)</p> <p>The first written usage of the word vodka in an official Russian document in its modern meaning is dated by the decree of Empress Elizabeth of June 8, 1751, which regulated the ownership of vodka distilleries.</p> <p>10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Iced Tea Day</p> <p>12&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cachaca Day<br />From: <a href="http://www.brazzil.com/p25jul96.htm">http://www.brazzil.com/p25jul96.htm</a><br />&quot; The SBC (Sociedade Brasileira da Cacha&ccedil;a) wants to declare June 12 the International Day of Cacha&ccedil;a because June 12, 1744, Portugal, then colonizer of Brazil, prohibited the production and distribution of cacha&ccedil;a in the country.&quot;</p> <p>19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Martini Day</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ice Cream Soda Day</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Orange Blossom Day</p> <p>30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Ice Cream Soda Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">JULY</span></b></p> <p>2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Anisette Day</p> <p>10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Pina Colada Day</p> <p>14&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Grand Marnier Day</p> <p>19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Daiquiri Day</p> <p>24&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Tequila Day</p> <p>26&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Coffee Milkshake Day</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Scotch Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">AUGUST</span></b></p> <p>2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Peter O&#39;Toole&#39;s Birthday (1932)</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Champagne is &quot;said&quot; to have been invented by Dom Perignon on this day in 1693.<br />It was said that upon his first taste of his sparkling champagne wine he announced &quot;Come quickly, I am drinking stars!&quot;. However sparkling wine was known before this time, one possible originator was Christopher Merret, who published in 1662 an account of making wines &quot;brisk and sparkling&quot; by adding sugars to them. Dom&#39;s quote is probably also more marketing than actual fact, since its first appearance is in a print advertisement in the late 19th century. This should not undermine Dom Perignon&#39;s value to the history of Champagne, because he did work tirelessly on advancing and perfecting the art, and almost certainly the product we drink today owes more than a small debt to his efforts.</p> <p>5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; International Beer Day (<a href="http://internationalbeerday.com/">http://internationalbeerday.com/</a>) Apparently &quot;first celebrated&quot; on August 5^th, 2007, and henceforth christened.</p> <p>&quot;On the night in question, we were beerstorming (drinking lots of beer in an effort to come up with brilliant ideas) band names for a friend&#39;s new band, but a couple of hours into the evening, talk turned to how wonderful beerstorming itself was. After thoroughly discussing beerstorming&#39;s merits someone declared that there should be a beer holiday.&quot;</p> <p>6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Root Beer Float Day</p> <p>9&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Diet Coke introduced (1982)</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Rum Day</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lemonade Day</p> <p>29&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Whisky Sour Day</p> <p>29&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lemon Juice Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">SEPTEMBER</span></b></p> <p>California Wine Month</p> <p>2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Beer &amp; Can Day</p> <p>12&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Chocolate Milkshake Day</p> <p>15&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Cr&egrave;me de Menthe Day</p> <p>19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Talk like a Pirate Day</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Rum Punch Day</p> <p><span style="background: SpringGreen;">21</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Dale</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">DeGroff</span><span style="background: SpringGreen;">&#39;</span><span style="background: SpringGreen;">s</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Birthday</span></p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Chocolate Milk Day</p> <p>28&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Drink Beer Day</p> <p>29&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Coffee Day</p> <p>30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Mulled Cider Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">OCTOBER</span></b></p> <p>American Beer Week (2^nd week)</p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sake Day (Nihonshu no Hi)<br /><a href="http://www.sake-world.com/html/sw-2004_9.html">http://www.sake-world.com/html/sw-2004_9.html</a><br />Why October 1? Several reasons. The biggest is related to the written character for sake. (For those that do not know what it looks like, go to my site at www.sake-world.com and look in the lower left-hand corner. It is the first of the three characters below the &quot;search site&quot; box.) Long ago, it consisted of only the right half of its current form; it did not contain the three short lines on the left that represent water. It consisted only of the part that was made to look like a jar, indicating something holding liquid, which was of course an alcoholic beverage of some sort in the mind of those reading the character. </p> <p>Enter the Chinese zodiac: 12 animal signs that are traditionally used to number years in sequence, as well as months, as well as consecutive two-hour periods in each 24-hour day. The tenth of these, corresponding to the tenth month (and the tenth year and the tenth hour) is tori, or chicken (or perhaps rooster or cock). However, the written characters assigned to each of these animals are not the standard characters for the animals themselves, but rather special characters and readings applied only for these zodiacal instances. </p> <p>This is where my detailed knowledge of Chinese characters and their adoption into Japanese breaks down and fades into near oblivion. For some reason, the ancient character for sake described above has been assigned to the tenth animal. It currently does not have any other use in either language. (The character, that is. Not the chicken. Chickens have lots of uses. But I digress again.) </p> <p>So, by fortuitous coincidence, October is represented in the ancient Chinese zodiac system, also embraced by Japan, by the old character for sake. Well, isn&#39;t that *convenient*. Sake brewing begins in the fall, usually in October. In fact, until a few decades ago, the fiscal year for sake brewers began on October 1 for that reason. As technology advanced to the point that brewers were able to start brewing much earlier and continue much later in the spring than before, that tax-related fiscal day was changed to July 1, but the original date of October 1 was certainly more apropos until recently. </p> <p>Indeed, October represents a beginning in the sake world: the beginning of a new brewing season. And the first day of this month is certainly a day worthy of note and some celebration in the sake world. And that is why October 1 is known as &quot;Nihonshu no Hi,&quot; or &quot;Sake Day,&quot; in Japan.</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Vodka Day</p> <p>5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bloody Mary??</p> <p>http://www.ediblecommunities.com/manhattan/september/october-2009/notable-edibles.htm</p> <p>Legend has it the world&#39;s first Bloody Mary was shaken precisely 75 years ago, on October 5, 1934-just five years after the invention of canned tomato juice-at the King Cole Bar in the St. Regis, the now-100-year-old beaux arts hotel founded by John Jacob Astor at the eminently exclusive corner of Fifth Avenue and 55th Street.</p> <p>Back then the bar served a worldly mix of socialites, including Serge Obolensky, vice chairman of the board of Hilton Hotels and a Russian native with a penchant for vodka. Obolensky asked barkeep Fernand Petiot, who&#39;d also tended a hotel bar in Paris, to re-create the vodka and tomato juice cocktail Obolensky had recently swilled in that city, and Mary-complete with salt, pepper, lemon and Worcestershire sauce and named for the Catholic English queen who had killed so many Protestants-was born.</p> <p>7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Frappe Day</p> <p>11&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; World Egg Day</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Liqueur Day</p> <p>17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; First Oktoberfest Celebrated (1810)</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Brandied Fruit Day</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; American Beer Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">NOVEMBER</span></b></p> <p>National Pomegranate Month</p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Birth of Jerry Thomas (or there abouts) in 1830, or was it 1829?</p> <p>8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Harvey Wallbanger Day</p> <p>24&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Espresso Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">DECEMBER</span></b></p> <p>National Egg Nog Month</p> <p>Second Week: Lager Beer Week</p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bloody Mary Day</p> <p>There is some dispute and some confusion regarding when the Bloody Mary was first concocted, and by who, and frankly, even what the recipe was. Many say that Fernand Petoit first created it at Harry&#39;s American Bar in Paris during the 1920&#39;s, where it was essentially just tomato juice and Vodka (vodka was available in Paris before it was being regularly seen in the US). Mr. Petoit then moved to the US in the 1930&#39;s where he was the head bartender at New York&#39;s St. Regis hotel. It is here that it is said that the drink went through a number of changes. First was that the more common gin was used instead of vodka. That it got the addition of Worcestershire, lemon juice, and Tabasco. And that it was given the name &quot;Red Snapper&quot; to be less vulgar. Later on, vodka would have been switched back in as the spirit, and the drink returned to its original name of Bloody Mary.</p> <p>There are those however who point to George Jessel as being the originator of the drink. He himself has some slightly conflicting stories, one claims (from &quot;The World I Lived In&quot; 1975) that it was in 1927 in Palm Beach, that he mixed vodka, Worcestershire sauce, tomato juice and lemon to help with a hangover. But in an Ad that appeared in Colliers Magazine, March 30, 1956, George Jessel claims that he simply mixed (Smirnoff) vodka and tomato juice together.</p> <p>In an interview with Fernand Petoit which appeared in the July 18, 1964 edition of the New Yorker, Mr. Petoit says: &quot;...George Jessel said he created it, but it was really nothing but vodka and tomato juice when I took it over. I cover the bottom of the shaker with four large dashes of salt, two dashes of black pepper, two dashes of cayenne pepper, and a layer of Worcestershire sauce; I then add a dash of lemon juice and some cracked ice, put in two ounces of vodka and two ounces of thick tomaoto juice, shake, strain, and pour.&quot;</p> <p>So it appear as though that while there is some contradictory overlapping of these stories, the thread of commonality here is that Mr. Petoit admits as to not as specifically &quot;inventing&quot; the drink, but &quot;perfecting&quot; it.</p> <p>5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prohibition repealed in U.S. (1933)</p> <p>10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Lager Day</p> <p>12&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Ambrosia Day</p> <p>13&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Cocoa Day</p> <p>14&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Death of Jerry Thomas (1885)</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Sangria Day</p> <p>24&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Eggnog Day</p> <p>30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Bicarbonate Of Soda Day</p> <p>31&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Champagne Day</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Coffee Days:</p> <p>May 6 = National Coffee Day</p> <p>May 24 = National Coffee Day in Brazil</p> <p>July 22 = Coffee Week</p> <p>July 24= Coffee Day</p> <p>August = National Coffee Month</p> <p>September 12 = National Coffee Day in Costa Rica</p> <p>September 19 = National Coffee Day in Ireland</p> <p>September 29 = National Coffee Day</p> <p>October 1 = National Coffee Day in Japan</p> <p>November 24 = National Espresso Day</p> <p>December 26 = Coffee Percolator Day</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Websites:</p> <p><a href="http://www.thenibble.com/fun/more/facts/food-holidays.asp">http://www.thenibble.com/fun/more/facts/food-holidays.asp</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.tfdutch.com/foodh.htm">http://www.tfdutch.com/foodh.htm</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/National_Symbols/American_Hollidays.html">http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/National_Symbols/American_Hollidays.html</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.partyguideonline.com/months/Gregorian.html">http://www.partyguideonline.com/months/Gregorian.html</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.mypunchbowl.com/holidays/">http://www.mypunchbowl.com/holidays/</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.anyexcuseforaparty.com/excuses.htm">http://www.anyexcuseforaparty.com/excuses.htm</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>http://chanticleersociety.org/wikis/cocktails/spirited-holidays/revision/3.aspxThu, 04 Aug 2011 16:19:00 GMTab16d238-d288-4c4b-8334-8811e5ee88a1:76Robert HessRevision 3 posted to Cocktail History by Robert Hess on 8/4/2011 12:19:00 PM<br /> <h2>Spirited Holidays</h2> <p>Below are a collection of &quot;not necessarily highly researched&quot; days which appear to be in some way cocktail/drink related. We should try to add and update to this list when additional dates, or additional information comes to light.</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;"></span></b>&nbsp;</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">JANUARY</span></b></p> <p>National Hot Tea Month</p> <p>National Irish Coffee Week (4^th week)</p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bloody Mary Day (sometimes... See December 1)</p> <p>11&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Hot Toddy Day</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prohibition began (1920)</p> <p>17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Hot Buttered Rum Day</p> <p>19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Champagne Day</p> <p>24&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Beer Can was introduced (1935)</p> <p>25&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Robbie Burns Day</p> <p>25&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Irish Coffee Day</p> <p>31&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Brandy Alexander Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">FEBRUARY</span></b></p> <p>First Saturday of February:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pisco Sour Day<br />The National Day of Pisco Sour is celebrated every first Saturday of February, according to a resolution of the Ministry of Production published in 2004. Before that, it was celebrated on February 8th.</p> <p>7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Hangover Awareness Day</p> <p>10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rum and Coca Cola by Andrews Sisters hits #1 (1945)</p> <p>11&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Don&#39;t Cry Over Split Milk Day</p> <p>17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Caf&eacute; Au Lait Day</p> <p>18&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Drink Wine Day</p> <p>22&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Margarita Day</p> <p>22&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Don Beach&#39;s Birthday</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Kahlua Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">MARCH</span></b></p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Beer Day (in Iceland) - March 1, 1989 is when the 74 year prohibition of beer ended in Iceland. This apparently is a well-celebrated holiday in Iceland.</p> <p>3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Mulled Wine Day</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; First tavern in U.S. opens (1634)</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bock Beer Day</p> <p>17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; St. Patrick&#39;s Day</p> <p>17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Green Beer Day</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bock Beer Day</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The corkscrew is patented (1860)</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">APRIL</span></b></p> <p>8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Milk in Glass Bottles Day</p> <p>15&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Income Tax Day (also Accountant&#39;s Day)</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Kingsley Amis&#39; Birthday (1922) Gravesite reads &quot;supreme clubman, boozer and blimp.&quot;</p> <p>19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Alcohol Content allowed on labels (1955)</p> <p>26&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Pretzel Day - celebrate this one with a beer</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">MAY</span></b></p> <p>National Egg Month</p> <p>Second Week: American Craft Beer Week</p> <p>Second Week: World Cocktail Week (Designated by The Museum of the American Cocktail)</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Homebrew Day</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Orange Juice Day</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bourbon Whiskey Defined (1964)</p> <p><a href="http://www.justaddbourbon.com/bourbonbuzz/print.aspx?id=209">http://www.justaddbourbon.com/bourbonbuzz/print.aspx?id=209</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Senate Concurrent Resolution 19</p> <p>In the Senate of the United States</p> <p>May 4, 1964</p> <p>Ordered to be printed as passed</p> <p>Concurrent Resolution</p> <p>Whereas it has been the commercial policy of the United States to recognize marks of origin a applicable to alcoholic beverages imported into the United States; and </p> <p>Whereas such commercial policy has been implemented by the promulgation of appropriate regulations which: among other things, establish standards of identity for such imported alcoholic beverages; and</p> <p>Whereas among the standards of identity which have been established are those for &quot;Scotch whiskey&quot; as a distinctive product of Scotland, manufactured in Scotland in compliance with the laws of Great Britain regulating the manufacture of Scotch whisky for consumption in Great Britain and for &quot;Canadian whisky&quot; as a distinctive product of Canada manufactured in Canada in compliance with the laws of the Dominion of Canada regulating the manufacture of whisky for the consumption in Canada and for &quot;Cognac&quot; as grape brandy distilled in the Cognac region of France, which is entitled to be so designated by the laws and regulations of the French Government; and</p> <p>Whereas &quot;Bourbon whisky&quot; is a distinctive product of the United States and is unlike other types of alcoholic beverages, whether foreign or domestic; and</p> <p>Whereas to be entitled to the designation &quot;Bourbon whisky&quot; the product must conform to the highest standards and must be manufactured in accordance with the laws and regulations of the United States which prescribe a standard of identity for &quot;Bourbon whiskey&quot;; and</p> <p>Whereas Bourbon whisky has achieved recognition and acceptance throughout the world as a distinctive product of the United States:</p> <p>Now, therefore, be it</p> <p>Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring),</p> <p>That it is the sense of Congress the recognition of Bourbon whisky as a distinctive product of the United States be brought to the attention of the appropriate agencies of the United States Government toward the end that such agencies will take appropriate action to prohibit the importation into the United States of whisky designated as &quot;Bourbon whiskey.&quot;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cinco de Mayo</p> <p>6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Beverage Day</p> <p>6-13&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;World Cocktail Week</p> <p>8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;Have A Coke&quot; day</p> <p>13&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; World Cocktail Day: The word &quot;cocktail&quot; is first&nbsp;defined in print (1806)</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Charles Hires invents Root Beer (1866)</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Last episode of &quot;Cheers&quot; airs (1993)</p> <p>25&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Wine Day</p> <p>28&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ian Fleming&#39;s Birthday (1908)</p> <p>30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Mint Julep Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">JUNE</span></b></p> <p>National Ice Tea Month</p> <p>National Dairy Lovers Month</p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Scotch Whiskey Day (mine)</p> <p>Friar John Cor was recorded on June 1, 1494 as procuring supplies for the making of copious amounts of whisky for his Majesty, Jimie the IV. Not particularly an event of note excepting that this is the first known recorded use of the word whiskey and indicatory of a healthy and long established tradition of distilling whisky in Great Briton, else wise he&#39;d not been making 1500 bottles of the stuff.</p> <p>&quot;To Friar John Cor, by order of the King, to make aqua vitae VIII bolls of malt.&quot; - Exchequer Rolls 1494-95, Vol x, p. 487.</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Cognac Day</p> <p>7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dean Martin is born (1917)</p> <p>8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Vodka Day (mine)</p> <p>The first written usage of the word vodka in an official Russian document in its modern meaning is dated by the decree of Empress Elizabeth of June 8, 1751, which regulated the ownership of vodka distilleries.</p> <p>10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Iced Tea Day</p> <p>12&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cachaca Day<br />From: <a href="http://www.brazzil.com/p25jul96.htm">http://www.brazzil.com/p25jul96.htm</a><br />&quot; The SBC (Sociedade Brasileira da Cacha&ccedil;a) wants to declare June 12 the International Day of Cacha&ccedil;a because June 12, 1744, Portugal, then colonizer of Brazil, prohibited the production and distribution of cacha&ccedil;a in the country.&quot;</p> <p>19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Martini Day</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ice Cream Soda Day</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Orange Blossom Day</p> <p>30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Ice Cream Soda Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">JULY</span></b></p> <p>2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Anisette Day</p> <p>10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Pina Colada Day</p> <p>14&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Grand Marnier Day</p> <p>19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Daiquiri Day</p> <p>24&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Tequila Day</p> <p>26&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Coffee Milkshake Day</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Scotch Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">AUGUST</span></b></p> <p>2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Peter O&#39;Toole&#39;s Birthday (1932)</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Champagne <span style="background: SpringGreen;">is</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">&quot;said&quot;</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">to</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">have</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">been</span> invented by Dom Perignon on this day in 1693<span style="background: SpringGreen;">.</span><br /><span style="background: SpringGreen;">It</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">was</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">said</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">that</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">upon</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">his</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">first</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">taste</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">of</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">his</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">sparkling</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">champagne</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">wine</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">he</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">announced</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">&quot;Come</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">quickly</span><span style="background: SpringGreen;">,</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">I</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">am</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">drinking</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">stars</span><span style="background: SpringGreen;">!</span><span style="background: SpringGreen;">&quot;.</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">However</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">sparkling</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">wine</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">was</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">known</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">before</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">this</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">time</span><span style="background: SpringGreen;">,</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">one</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">possible</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">originator</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">was</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Christopher</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Merret</span><span style="background: SpringGreen;">,</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">who</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">published</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">in</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">1662</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">an</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">account</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">of</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">making</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">wines</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">&quot;brisk</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">and</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">sparkling</span><span style="background: SpringGreen;">&quot;</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">by</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">adding</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">sugars</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">to</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">them</span><span style="background: SpringGreen;">.</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Dom</span><span style="background: SpringGreen;">&#39;</span><span style="background: SpringGreen;">s</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">quote</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">is</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">probably</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">also</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">more</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">marketing</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">than</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">actual</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">fact</span><span style="background: SpringGreen;">,</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">since</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">its</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">first</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">appearance</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">is</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">in</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">a</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">print</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">advertisement</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">in</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">the</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">late</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">19th</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">century</span><span style="background: SpringGreen;">.</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">This</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">should</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">not</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">undermine</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Dom</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Perignon</span><span style="background: SpringGreen;">&#39;</span><span style="background: SpringGreen;">s</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">value</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">to</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">the</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">history</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">of</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Champagne</span><span style="background: SpringGreen;">,</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">because</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">he</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">did</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">work</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">tirelessly</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">on</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">advancing</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">and</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">perfecting</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">the</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">art</span><span style="background: SpringGreen;">,</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">and</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">almost</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">certainly</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">the</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">product</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">we</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">drink</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">today</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">owes</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">more</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">than</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">a</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">small</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">debt</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">to</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">his</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">efforts</span><span style="background: SpringGreen;">.</span></p> <p>5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; International Beer Day (<a href="http://internationalbeerday.com/">http://internationalbeerday.com/</a>) Apparently &quot;first celebrated&quot; on August 5^th, 2007, and henceforth christened.</p> <p>&quot;On the night in question, we were beerstorming (drinking lots of beer in an effort to come up with brilliant ideas) band names for a friend&#39;s new band, but a couple of hours into the evening, talk turned to how wonderful beerstorming itself was. After thoroughly discussing beerstorming&#39;s merits someone declared that there should be a beer holiday.&quot;</p> <p>6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Root Beer Float Day</p> <p>9&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Diet Coke introduced (1982)</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Rum Day</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lemonade Day</p> <p>29&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Whisky Sour Day</p> <p>29&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lemon Juice Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">SEPTEMBER</span></b></p> <p>California Wine Month</p> <p>2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Beer &amp; Can Day</p> <p>12&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Chocolate Milkshake Day</p> <p>15&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Cr&egrave;me de Menthe Day</p> <p>19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Talk like a Pirate Day</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Rum Punch Day</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Chocolate Milk Day</p> <p>28&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Drink Beer Day</p> <p>29&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Coffee Day</p> <p>30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Mulled Cider Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">OCTOBER</span></b></p> <p>American Beer Week (2^nd week)</p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sake Day (Nihonshu no Hi)<br /><a href="http://www.sake-world.com/html/sw-2004_9.html">http://www.sake-world.com/html/sw-2004_9.html</a><br />Why October 1? Several reasons. The biggest is related to the written character for sake. (For those that do not know what it looks like, go to my site at www.sake-world.com and look in the lower left-hand corner. It is the first of the three characters below the &quot;search site&quot; box.) Long ago, it consisted of only the right half of its current form; it did not contain the three short lines on the left that represent water. It consisted only of the part that was made to look like a jar, indicating something holding liquid, which was of course an alcoholic beverage of some sort in the mind of those reading the character. </p> <p>Enter the Chinese zodiac: 12 animal signs that are traditionally used to number years in sequence, as well as months, as well as consecutive two-hour periods in each 24-hour day. The tenth of these, corresponding to the tenth month (and the tenth year and the tenth hour) is tori, or chicken (or perhaps rooster or cock). However, the written characters assigned to each of these animals are not the standard characters for the animals themselves, but rather special characters and readings applied only for these zodiacal instances. </p> <p>This is where my detailed knowledge of Chinese characters and their adoption into Japanese breaks down and fades into near oblivion. For some reason, the ancient character for sake described above has been assigned to the tenth animal. It currently does not have any other use in either language. (The character, that is. Not the chicken. Chickens have lots of uses. But I digress again.) </p> <p>So, by fortuitous coincidence, October is represented in the ancient Chinese zodiac system, also embraced by Japan, by the old character for sake. Well, isn&#39;t that *convenient*. Sake brewing begins in the fall, usually in October. In fact, until a few decades ago, the fiscal year for sake brewers began on October 1 for that reason. As technology advanced to the point that brewers were able to start brewing much earlier and continue much later in the spring than before, that tax-related fiscal day was changed to July 1, but the original date of October 1 was certainly more apropos until recently. </p> <p>Indeed, October represents a beginning in the sake world: the beginning of a new brewing season. And the first day of this month is certainly a day worthy of note and some celebration in the sake world. And that is why October 1 is known as &quot;Nihonshu no Hi,&quot; or &quot;Sake Day,&quot; in Japan.</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Vodka Day</p> <p>5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bloody Mary??</p> <p>http://www.ediblecommunities.com/manhattan/september/october-2009/notable-edibles.htm</p> <p>Legend has it the world&#39;s first Bloody Mary was shaken precisely 75 years ago, on October 5, 1934-just five years after the invention of canned tomato juice-at the King Cole Bar in the St. Regis, the now-100-year-old beaux arts hotel founded by John Jacob Astor at the eminently exclusive corner of Fifth Avenue and 55th Street.</p> <p>Back then the bar served a worldly mix of socialites, including Serge Obolensky, vice chairman of the board of Hilton Hotels and a Russian native with a penchant for vodka. Obolensky asked barkeep Fernand Petiot, who&#39;d also tended a hotel bar in Paris, to re-create the vodka and tomato juice cocktail Obolensky had recently swilled in that city, and Mary-complete with salt, pepper, lemon and Worcestershire sauce and named for the Catholic English queen who had killed so many Protestants-was born.</p> <p>7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Frappe Day</p> <p>11&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; World Egg Day</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Liqueur Day</p> <p>17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; First Oktoberfest Celebrated (1810)</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Brandied Fruit Day</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; American Beer Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">NOVEMBER</span></b></p> <p>National Pomegranate Month</p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Birth of Jerry Thomas (or there abouts) in 1830, or was it 1829?</p> <p>8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Harvey Wallbanger Day</p> <p>24&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Espresso Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">DECEMBER</span></b></p> <p>National Egg Nog Month</p> <p>Second Week: Lager Beer Week</p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bloody Mary Day</p> <p>There is some dispute and some confusion regarding when the Bloody Mary was first concocted, and by who, and frankly, even what the recipe was. Many say that Fernand Petoit first created it at Harry&#39;s American Bar in Paris during the 1920&#39;s, where it was essentially just tomato juice and Vodka (vodka was available in Paris before it was being regularly seen in the US). Mr. Petoit then moved to the US in the 1930&#39;s where he was the head bartender at New York&#39;s St. Regis hotel. It is here that it is said that the drink went through a number of changes. First was that the more common gin was used instead of vodka. That it got the addition of Worcestershire, lemon juice, and Tabasco. And that it was given the name &quot;Red Snapper&quot; to be less vulgar. Later on, vodka would have been switched back in as the spirit, and the drink returned to its original name of Bloody Mary.</p> <p>There are those however who point to George Jessel as being the originator of the drink. He himself has some slightly conflicting stories, one claims (from &quot;The World I Lived In&quot; 1975) that it was in 1927 in Palm Beach, that he mixed vodka, Worcestershire sauce, tomato juice and lemon to help with a hangover. But in an Ad that appeared in Colliers Magazine, March 30, 1956, George Jessel claims that he simply mixed (Smirnoff) vodka and tomato juice together.</p> <p>In an interview with Fernand Petoit which appeared in the July 18, 1964 edition of the New Yorker, Mr. Petoit says: &quot;...George Jessel said he created it, but it was really nothing but vodka and tomato juice when I took it over. I cover the bottom of the shaker with four large dashes of salt, two dashes of black pepper, two dashes of cayenne pepper, and a layer of Worcestershire sauce; I then add a dash of lemon juice and some cracked ice, put in two ounces of vodka and two ounces of thick tomaoto juice, shake, strain, and pour.&quot;</p> <p>So it appear as though that while there is some contradictory overlapping of these stories, the thread of commonality here is that Mr. Petoit admits as to not as specifically &quot;inventing&quot; the drink, but &quot;perfecting&quot; it.</p> <p>5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prohibition repealed in U.S. (1933)</p> <p>10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Lager Day</p> <p>12&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Ambrosia Day</p> <p>13&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Cocoa Day</p> <p>14&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Death of Jerry Thomas (1885)</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Sangria Day</p> <p>24&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Eggnog Day</p> <p>30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Bicarbonate Of Soda Day</p> <p>31&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Champagne Day</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Coffee Days:</p> <p>May 6 = National Coffee Day</p> <p>May 24 = National Coffee Day in Brazil</p> <p>July 22 = Coffee Week</p> <p>July 24= Coffee Day</p> <p>August = National Coffee Month</p> <p>September 12 = National Coffee Day in Costa Rica</p> <p>September 19 = National Coffee Day in Ireland</p> <p>September 29 = National Coffee Day</p> <p>October 1 = National Coffee Day in Japan</p> <p>November 24 = National Espresso Day</p> <p>December 26 = Coffee Percolator Day</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Websites:</p> <p><a href="http://www.thenibble.com/fun/more/facts/food-holidays.asp">http://www.thenibble.com/fun/more/facts/food-holidays.asp</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.tfdutch.com/foodh.htm">http://www.tfdutch.com/foodh.htm</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/National_Symbols/American_Hollidays.html">http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/National_Symbols/American_Hollidays.html</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.partyguideonline.com/months/Gregorian.html">http://www.partyguideonline.com/months/Gregorian.html</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.mypunchbowl.com/holidays/">http://www.mypunchbowl.com/holidays/</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.anyexcuseforaparty.com/excuses.htm">http://www.anyexcuseforaparty.com/excuses.htm</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>http://chanticleersociety.org/wikis/cocktails/spirited-holidays/revision/2.aspxMon, 11 Jul 2011 03:42:21 GMTab16d238-d288-4c4b-8334-8811e5ee88a1:75Robert HessRevision 2 posted to Cocktail History by Robert Hess on 7/10/2011 11:42:21 PM<br /> <h2>Spirited Holidays</h2> <p>Below are a collection of &quot;not necessarily highly researched&quot; days which appear to be in some way cocktail/drink related. We should try to add and update to this list when additional dates, or additional information comes to light.</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;"></span></b>&nbsp;</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">JANUARY</span></b></p> <p>National Hot Tea Month</p> <p>National Irish Coffee Week (4^th week)</p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bloody Mary Day (sometimes... See December 1)</p> <p>11&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Hot Toddy Day</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prohibition began (1920)</p> <p>17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Hot Buttered Rum Day</p> <p>19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Champagne Day</p> <p>24&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Beer Can was introduced (1935)</p> <p>25&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Robbie Burns Day</p> <p>25&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Irish Coffee Day</p> <p>31&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Brandy Alexander Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">FEBRUARY</span></b></p> <p>First Saturday of February:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pisco Sour Day<br />The National Day of Pisco Sour is celebrated every first Saturday of February, according to a resolution of the Ministry of Production published in 2004. Before that, it was celebrated on February 8th.</p> <p>7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Hangover Awareness Day</p> <p>10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rum and Coca Cola by Andrews Sisters hits #1 (1945)</p> <p>11&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Don&#39;t Cry Over Split Milk Day</p> <p>17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Caf&eacute; Au Lait Day</p> <p>18&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Drink Wine Day</p> <p>22&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Margarita Day</p> <p>22&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Don Beach&#39;s Birthday</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Kahlua Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">MARCH</span></b></p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Beer Day (in Iceland) - March 1, 1989 is when the 74 year prohibition of beer ended in Iceland. This apparently is a well-celebrated holiday in Iceland.</p> <p>3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Mulled Wine Day</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; First tavern in U.S. opens (1634)</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bock Beer Day</p> <p>17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; St. Patrick&#39;s Day</p> <p>17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Green Beer Day</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bock Beer Day</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The corkscrew is patented (1860)</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">APRIL</span></b></p> <p>8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Milk in Glass Bottles Day</p> <p>15&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Income Tax Day (also Accountant&#39;s Day)</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Kingsley Amis&#39; Birthday (1922) Gravesite reads &quot;supreme clubman, boozer and blimp.&quot;</p> <p>19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Alcohol Content allowed on labels (1955)</p> <p>26&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Pretzel Day - celebrate this one with a beer</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">MAY</span></b></p> <p>National Egg Month</p> <p>Second Week: American Craft Beer Week</p> <p>Second Week: World Cocktail Week (Designated by The Museum of the American Cocktail)</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Homebrew Day</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Orange Juice Day</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bourbon Whiskey Defined (1964)</p> <p><a href="http://www.justaddbourbon.com/bourbonbuzz/print.aspx?id=209">http://www.justaddbourbon.com/bourbonbuzz/print.aspx?id=209</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Senate Concurrent Resolution 19</p> <p>In the Senate of the United States</p> <p>May 4, 1964</p> <p>Ordered to be printed as passed</p> <p>Concurrent Resolution</p> <p>Whereas it has been the commercial policy of the United States to recognize marks of origin a applicable to alcoholic beverages imported into the United States; and </p> <p>Whereas such commercial policy has been implemented by the promulgation of appropriate regulations which: among other things, establish standards of identity for such imported alcoholic beverages; and</p> <p>Whereas among the standards of identity which have been established are those for &quot;Scotch whiskey&quot; as a distinctive product of Scotland, manufactured in Scotland in compliance with the laws of Great Britain regulating the manufacture of Scotch whisky for consumption in Great Britain and for &quot;Canadian whisky&quot; as a distinctive product of Canada manufactured in Canada in compliance with the laws of the Dominion of Canada regulating the manufacture of whisky for the consumption in Canada and for &quot;Cognac&quot; as grape brandy distilled in the Cognac region of France, which is entitled to be so designated by the laws and regulations of the French Government; and</p> <p>Whereas &quot;Bourbon whisky&quot; is a distinctive product of the United States and is unlike other types of alcoholic beverages, whether foreign or domestic; and</p> <p>Whereas to be entitled to the designation &quot;Bourbon whisky&quot; the product must conform to the highest standards and must be manufactured in accordance with the laws and regulations of the United States which prescribe a standard of identity for &quot;Bourbon whiskey&quot;; and</p> <p>Whereas Bourbon whisky has achieved recognition and acceptance throughout the world as a distinctive product of the United States:</p> <p>Now, therefore, be it</p> <p>Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring),</p> <p>That it is the sense of Congress the recognition of Bourbon whisky as a distinctive product of the United States be brought to the attention of the appropriate agencies of the United States Government toward the end that such agencies will take appropriate action to prohibit the importation into the United States of whisky designated as &quot;Bourbon whiskey.&quot;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cinco de Mayo</p> <p>6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Beverage Day</p> <p>6-13&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;World Cocktail Week</p> <p>8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;Have A Coke&quot; day</p> <p>13&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; World Cocktail Day: The word &quot;cocktail&quot; is first&nbsp;defined in print (1806)</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Charles Hires invents Root Beer (1866)</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Last episode of &quot;Cheers&quot; airs (1993)</p> <p>25&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Wine Day</p> <p>28&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ian Fleming&#39;s Birthday (1908)</p> <p>30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Mint Julep Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">JUNE</span></b></p> <p>National Ice Tea Month</p> <p>National Dairy Lovers Month</p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Scotch Whiskey Day (mine)</p> <p>Friar John Cor was recorded on June 1, 1494 as procuring supplies for the making of copious amounts of whisky for his Majesty, Jimie the IV. Not particularly an event of note excepting that this is the first known recorded use of the word whiskey and indicatory of a healthy and long established tradition of distilling whisky in Great Briton, else wise he&#39;d not been making 1500 bottles of the stuff.</p> <p>&quot;To Friar John Cor, by order of the King, to make aqua vitae VIII bolls of malt.&quot; - Exchequer Rolls 1494-95, Vol x, p. 487.</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Cognac Day</p> <p>7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dean Martin is born (1917)</p> <p>8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Vodka Day (mine)</p> <p>The first written usage of the word vodka in an official Russian document in its modern meaning is dated by the decree of Empress Elizabeth of June 8, 1751, which regulated the ownership of vodka distilleries.</p> <p>10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Iced Tea Day</p> <p>12&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cachaca Day<br />From: <a href="http://www.brazzil.com/p25jul96.htm">http://www.brazzil.com/p25jul96.htm</a><br />&quot; The SBC (Sociedade Brasileira da Cacha&ccedil;a) wants to declare June 12 the International Day of Cacha&ccedil;a because June 12, 1744, Portugal, then colonizer of Brazil, prohibited the production and distribution of cacha&ccedil;a in the country.&quot;</p> <p>19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Martini Day</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ice Cream Soda Day</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Orange Blossom Day</p> <p>30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Ice Cream Soda Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">JULY</span></b></p> <p>2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Anisette Day</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">9</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Diet</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Coke</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">introduced</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">(</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">1982)</span></p> <p>10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Pina Colada Day</p> <p>14&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Grand Marnier Day</p> <p>19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Daiquiri Day</p> <p>24&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Tequila Day</p> <p>26&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Coffee Milkshake Day</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Scotch Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">AUGUST</span></b></p> <p>2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Peter O&#39;Toole&#39;s Birthday (1932)</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Champagne invented by Dom Perignon on this day in 1693</p> <p>5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; International Beer Day (<a href="http://internationalbeerday.com/">http://internationalbeerday.com/</a>) Apparently &quot;first celebrated&quot; on August 5^th, 2007, and henceforth christened.</p> <p>&quot;On the night in question, we were beerstorming (drinking lots of beer in an effort to come up with brilliant ideas) band names for a friend&#39;s new band, but a couple of hours into the evening, talk turned to how wonderful beerstorming itself was. After thoroughly discussing beerstorming&#39;s merits someone declared that there should be a beer holiday.&quot;</p> <p>6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Root Beer Float Day</p> <p><span style="background: SpringGreen;">9</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="background: SpringGreen;">Diet</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Coke</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">introduced</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">(</span><span style="background: SpringGreen;">1982)</span></p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Rum Day</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lemonade Day</p> <p>29&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Whisky Sour Day</p> <p>29&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lemon Juice Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">SEPTEMBER</span></b></p> <p>California Wine Month</p> <p>2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Beer &amp; Can Day</p> <p>12&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Chocolate Milkshake Day</p> <p>15&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Cr&egrave;me de Menthe Day</p> <p>19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Talk like a Pirate Day</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Rum Punch Day</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Chocolate Milk Day</p> <p>28&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Drink Beer Day</p> <p>29&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Coffee Day</p> <p>30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Mulled Cider Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">OCTOBER</span></b></p> <p>American Beer Week (2^nd week)</p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sake Day (Nihonshu no Hi)<br /><a href="http://www.sake-world.com/html/sw-2004_9.html">http://www.sake-world.com/html/sw-2004_9.html</a><br />Why October 1? Several reasons. The biggest is related to the written character for sake. (For those that do not know what it looks like, go to my site at www.sake-world.com and look in the lower left-hand corner. It is the first of the three characters below the &quot;search site&quot; box.) Long ago, it consisted of only the right half of its current form; it did not contain the three short lines on the left that represent water. It consisted only of the part that was made to look like a jar, indicating something holding liquid, which was of course an alcoholic beverage of some sort in the mind of those reading the character. </p> <p>Enter the Chinese zodiac: 12 animal signs that are traditionally used to number years in sequence, as well as months, as well as consecutive two-hour periods in each 24-hour day. The tenth of these, corresponding to the tenth month (and the tenth year and the tenth hour) is tori, or chicken (or perhaps rooster or cock). However, the written characters assigned to each of these animals are not the standard characters for the animals themselves, but rather special characters and readings applied only for these zodiacal instances. </p> <p>This is where my detailed knowledge of Chinese characters and their adoption into Japanese breaks down and fades into near oblivion. For some reason, the ancient character for sake described above has been assigned to the tenth animal. It currently does not have any other use in either language. (The character, that is. Not the chicken. Chickens have lots of uses. But I digress again.) </p> <p>So, by fortuitous coincidence, October is represented in the ancient Chinese zodiac system, also embraced by Japan, by the old character for sake. Well, isn&#39;t that *convenient*. Sake brewing begins in the fall, usually in October. In fact, until a few decades ago, the fiscal year for sake brewers began on October 1 for that reason. As technology advanced to the point that brewers were able to start brewing much earlier and continue much later in the spring than before, that tax-related fiscal day was changed to July 1, but the original date of October 1 was certainly more apropos until recently. </p> <p>Indeed, October represents a beginning in the sake world: the beginning of a new brewing season. And the first day of this month is certainly a day worthy of note and some celebration in the sake world. And that is why October 1 is known as &quot;Nihonshu no Hi,&quot; or &quot;Sake Day,&quot; in Japan.</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Vodka Day</p> <p>5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bloody Mary??</p> <p>http://www.ediblecommunities.com/manhattan/september/october-2009/notable-edibles.htm</p> <p>Legend has it the world&#39;s first Bloody Mary was shaken precisely 75 years ago, on October 5, 1934-just five years after the invention of canned tomato juice-at the King Cole Bar in the St. Regis, the now-100-year-old beaux arts hotel founded by John Jacob Astor at the eminently exclusive corner of Fifth Avenue and 55th Street.</p> <p>Back then the bar served a worldly mix of socialites, including Serge Obolensky, vice chairman of the board of Hilton Hotels and a Russian native with a penchant for vodka. Obolensky asked barkeep Fernand Petiot, who&#39;d also tended a hotel bar in Paris, to re-create the vodka and tomato juice cocktail Obolensky had recently swilled in that city, and Mary-complete with salt, pepper, lemon and Worcestershire sauce and named for the Catholic English queen who had killed so many Protestants-was born.</p> <p>7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Frappe Day</p> <p>11&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; World Egg Day</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Liqueur Day</p> <p>17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; First Oktoberfest Celebrated (1810)</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Brandied Fruit Day</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; American Beer Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">NOVEMBER</span></b></p> <p>National Pomegranate Month</p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Birth of Jerry Thomas (or there abouts) in 1830, or was it 1829?</p> <p>8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Harvey Wallbanger Day</p> <p>24&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Espresso Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">DECEMBER</span></b></p> <p>National Egg Nog Month</p> <p>Second Week: Lager Beer Week</p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bloody Mary Day</p> <p>There is some dispute and some confusion regarding when the Bloody Mary was first concocted, and by who, and frankly, even what the recipe was. Many say that Fernand Petoit first created it at Harry&#39;s American Bar in Paris during the 1920&#39;s, where it was essentially just tomato juice and Vodka (vodka was available in Paris before it was being regularly seen in the US). Mr. Petoit then moved to the US in the 1930&#39;s where he was the head bartender at New York&#39;s St. Regis hotel. It is here that it is said that the drink went through a number of changes. First was that the more common gin was used instead of vodka. That it got the addition of Worcestershire, lemon juice, and Tabasco. And that it was given the name &quot;Red Snapper&quot; to be less vulgar. Later on, vodka would have been switched back in as the spirit, and the drink returned to its original name of Bloody Mary.</p> <p>There are those however who point to George Jessel as being the originator of the drink. He himself has some slightly conflicting stories, one claims (from &quot;The World I Lived In&quot; 1975) that it was in 1927 in Palm Beach, that he mixed vodka, Worcestershire sauce, tomato juice and lemon to help with a hangover. But in an Ad that appeared in Colliers Magazine, March 30, 1956, George Jessel claims that he simply mixed (Smirnoff) vodka and tomato juice together.</p> <p>In an interview with Fernand Petoit which appeared in the July 18, 1964 edition of the New Yorker, Mr. Petoit says: &quot;...George Jessel said he created it, but it was really nothing but vodka and tomato juice when I took it over. I cover the bottom of the shaker with four large dashes of salt, two dashes of black pepper, two dashes of cayenne pepper, and a layer of Worcestershire sauce; I then add a dash of lemon juice and some cracked ice, put in two ounces of vodka and two ounces of thick tomaoto juice, shake, strain, and pour.&quot;</p> <p>So it appear as though that while there is some contradictory overlapping of these stories, the thread of commonality here is that Mr. Petoit admits as to not as specifically &quot;inventing&quot; the drink, but &quot;perfecting&quot; it.</p> <p>5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prohibition repealed in U.S. (1933)</p> <p>10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Lager Day</p> <p>12&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Ambrosia Day</p> <p>13&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Cocoa Day</p> <p>14&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Death of Jerry Thomas (1885)</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Sangria Day</p> <p>24&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Eggnog Day</p> <p>30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Bicarbonate Of Soda Day</p> <p>31&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Champagne Day</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Coffee Days:</p> <p>May 6 = National Coffee Day</p> <p>May 24 = National Coffee Day in Brazil</p> <p>July 22 = Coffee Week</p> <p>July 24= Coffee Day</p> <p>August = National Coffee Month</p> <p>September 12 = National Coffee Day in Costa Rica</p> <p>September 19 = National Coffee Day in Ireland</p> <p>September 29 = National Coffee Day</p> <p>October 1 = National Coffee Day in Japan</p> <p>November 24 = National Espresso Day</p> <p>December 26 = Coffee Percolator Day</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Websites:</p> <p><a href="http://www.thenibble.com/fun/more/facts/food-holidays.asp">http://www.thenibble.com/fun/more/facts/food-holidays.asp</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.tfdutch.com/foodh.htm">http://www.tfdutch.com/foodh.htm</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/National_Symbols/American_Hollidays.html">http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/National_Symbols/American_Hollidays.html</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.partyguideonline.com/months/Gregorian.html">http://www.partyguideonline.com/months/Gregorian.html</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.mypunchbowl.com/holidays/">http://www.mypunchbowl.com/holidays/</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.anyexcuseforaparty.com/excuses.htm">http://www.anyexcuseforaparty.com/excuses.htm</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>http://chanticleersociety.org/wikis/cocktails/spirited-holidays/revision/1.aspxSat, 02 Jul 2011 04:39:53 GMTab16d238-d288-4c4b-8334-8811e5ee88a1:74Robert HessRevision 1 posted to Cocktail History by Robert Hess on 7/2/2011 12:39:53 AM<br /> <p>Below are a collection of &quot;not necessarily highly researched&quot; days which appear to be in some way cocktail/drink related. We should try to add and update to this list when additional dates, or additional information comes to light.</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;"></span></b>&nbsp;</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">JANUARY</span></b></p> <p>National Hot Tea Month</p> <p>National Irish Coffee Week (4^th week)</p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bloody Mary Day (sometimes... See December 1)</p> <p>11&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Hot Toddy Day</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prohibition began (1920)</p> <p>17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Hot Buttered Rum Day</p> <p>19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Champagne Day</p> <p>24&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Beer Can was introduced (1935)</p> <p>25&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Robbie Burns Day</p> <p>25&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Irish Coffee Day</p> <p>31&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Brandy Alexander Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">FEBRUARY</span></b></p> <p>First Saturday of February:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pisco Sour Day<br />The National Day of Pisco Sour is celebrated every first Saturday of February, according to a resolution of the Ministry of Production published in 2004. Before that, it was celebrated on February 8th.</p> <p>7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Hangover Awareness Day</p> <p>10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rum and Coca Cola by Andrews Sisters hits #1 (1945)</p> <p>11&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Don&#39;t Cry Over Split Milk Day</p> <p>17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Caf&eacute; Au Lait Day</p> <p>18&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Drink Wine Day</p> <p>22&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Margarita Day</p> <p>22&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Don Beach&#39;s Birthday</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Kahlua Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">MARCH</span></b></p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Beer Day (in Iceland) - March 1, 1989 is when the 74 year prohibition of beer ended in Iceland. This apparently is a well-celebrated holiday in Iceland.</p> <p>3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Mulled Wine Day</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; First tavern in U.S. opens (1634)</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bock Beer Day</p> <p>17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; St. Patrick&#39;s Day</p> <p>17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Green Beer Day</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bock Beer Day</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The corkscrew is patented (1860)</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">APRIL</span></b></p> <p>8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Milk in Glass Bottles Day</p> <p>15&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Income Tax Day (also Accountant&#39;s Day)</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Kingsley Amis&#39; Birthday (1922) Gravesite reads &quot;supreme clubman, boozer and blimp.&quot;</p> <p>19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Alcohol Content allowed on labels (1955)</p> <p>26&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Pretzel Day - celebrate this one with a beer</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">MAY</span></b></p> <p>National Egg Month</p> <p>Second Week: American Craft Beer Week</p> <p>Second Week: World Cocktail Week (Designated by The Museum of the American Cocktail)</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Homebrew Day</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Orange Juice Day</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bourbon Whiskey Defined (1964)</p> <p><a href="http://www.justaddbourbon.com/bourbonbuzz/print.aspx?id=209">http://www.justaddbourbon.com/bourbonbuzz/print.aspx?id=209</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Senate Concurrent Resolution 19</p> <p>In the Senate of the United States</p> <p>May 4, 1964</p> <p>Ordered to be printed as passed</p> <p>Concurrent Resolution</p> <p>Whereas it has been the commercial policy of the United States to recognize marks of origin a applicable to alcoholic beverages imported into the United States; and </p> <p>Whereas such commercial policy has been implemented by the promulgation of appropriate regulations which: among other things, establish standards of identity for such imported alcoholic beverages; and</p> <p>Whereas among the standards of identity which have been established are those for &quot;Scotch whiskey&quot; as a distinctive product of Scotland, manufactured in Scotland in compliance with the laws of Great Britain regulating the manufacture of Scotch whisky for consumption in Great Britain and for &quot;Canadian whisky&quot; as a distinctive product of Canada manufactured in Canada in compliance with the laws of the Dominion of Canada regulating the manufacture of whisky for the consumption in Canada and for &quot;Cognac&quot; as grape brandy distilled in the Cognac region of France, which is entitled to be so designated by the laws and regulations of the French Government; and</p> <p>Whereas &quot;Bourbon whisky&quot; is a distinctive product of the United States and is unlike other types of alcoholic beverages, whether foreign or domestic; and</p> <p>Whereas to be entitled to the designation &quot;Bourbon whisky&quot; the product must conform to the highest standards and must be manufactured in accordance with the laws and regulations of the United States which prescribe a standard of identity for &quot;Bourbon whiskey&quot;; and</p> <p>Whereas Bourbon whisky has achieved recognition and acceptance throughout the world as a distinctive product of the United States:</p> <p>Now, therefore, be it</p> <p>Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring),</p> <p>That it is the sense of Congress the recognition of Bourbon whisky as a distinctive product of the United States be brought to the attention of the appropriate agencies of the United States Government toward the end that such agencies will take appropriate action to prohibit the importation into the United States of whisky designated as &quot;Bourbon whiskey.&quot;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cinco de Mayo</p> <p>6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Beverage Day</p> <p>6-13&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;World Cocktail Week</p> <p>8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;Have A Coke&quot; day</p> <p>13&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; World Cocktail Day: The word &quot;cocktail&quot; is first&nbsp;defined in print (1806)</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Charles Hires invents Root Beer (1866)</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Last episode of &quot;Cheers&quot; airs (1993)</p> <p>25&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Wine Day</p> <p>28&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ian Fleming&#39;s Birthday (1908)</p> <p>30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Mint Julep Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">JUNE</span></b></p> <p>National Ice Tea Month</p> <p>National Dairy Lovers Month</p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Scotch Whiskey Day (mine)</p> <p>Friar John Cor was recorded on June 1, 1494 as procuring supplies for the making of copious amounts of whisky for his Majesty, Jimie the IV. Not particularly an event of note excepting that this is the first known recorded use of the word whiskey and indicatory of a healthy and long established tradition of distilling whisky in Great Briton, else wise he&#39;d not been making 1500 bottles of the stuff.</p> <p>&quot;To Friar John Cor, by order of the King, to make aqua vitae VIII bolls of malt.&quot; - Exchequer Rolls 1494-95, Vol x, p. 487.</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Cognac Day</p> <p>7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dean Martin is born (1917)</p> <p>8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Vodka Day (mine)</p> <p>The first written usage of the word vodka in an official Russian document in its modern meaning is dated by the decree of Empress Elizabeth of June 8, 1751, which regulated the ownership of vodka distilleries.</p> <p>10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Iced Tea Day</p> <p>12&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cachaca Day<br />From: <a href="http://www.brazzil.com/p25jul96.htm">http://www.brazzil.com/p25jul96.htm</a><br />&quot; The SBC (Sociedade Brasileira da Cacha&ccedil;a) wants to declare June 12 the International Day of Cacha&ccedil;a because June 12, 1744, Portugal, then colonizer of Brazil, prohibited the production and distribution of cacha&ccedil;a in the country.&quot;</p> <p>19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Martini Day</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ice Cream Soda Day</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Orange Blossom Day</p> <p>30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Ice Cream Soda Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">JULY</span></b></p> <p>2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Anisette Day</p> <p>9&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Diet Coke introduced (1982)</p> <p>10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Pina Colada Day</p> <p>14&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Grand Marnier Day</p> <p>19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Daiquiri Day</p> <p>24&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Tequila Day</p> <p>26&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Coffee Milkshake Day</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Scotch Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">AUGUST</span></b></p> <p>2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Peter O&#39;Toole&#39;s Birthday (1932)</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Champagne invented by Dom Perignon on this day in 1693</p> <p>5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; International Beer Day (<a href="http://internationalbeerday.com/">http://internationalbeerday.com/</a>) Apparently &quot;first celebrated&quot; on August 5^th, 2007, and henceforth christened.</p> <p>&quot;On the night in question, we were beerstorming (drinking lots of beer in an effort to come up with brilliant ideas) band names for a friend&#39;s new band, but a couple of hours into the evening, talk turned to how wonderful beerstorming itself was. After thoroughly discussing beerstorming&#39;s merits someone declared that there should be a beer holiday.&quot;</p> <p>6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Root Beer Float Day</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Rum Day</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lemonade Day</p> <p>29&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Whisky Sour Day</p> <p>29&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lemon Juice Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">SEPTEMBER</span></b></p> <p>California Wine Month</p> <p>2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Beer &amp; Can Day</p> <p>12&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Chocolate Milkshake Day</p> <p>15&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Cr&egrave;me de Menthe Day</p> <p>19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Talk like a Pirate Day</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Rum Punch Day</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Chocolate Milk Day</p> <p>28&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Drink Beer Day</p> <p>29&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Coffee Day</p> <p>30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Mulled Cider Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">OCTOBER</span></b></p> <p>American Beer Week (2^nd week)</p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sake Day (Nihonshu no Hi)<br /><a href="http://www.sake-world.com/html/sw-2004_9.html">http://www.sake-world.com/html/sw-2004_9.html</a><br />Why October 1? Several reasons. The biggest is related to the written character for sake. (For those that do not know what it looks like, go to my site at www.sake-world.com and look in the lower left-hand corner. It is the first of the three characters below the &quot;search site&quot; box.) Long ago, it consisted of only the right half of its current form; it did not contain the three short lines on the left that represent water. It consisted only of the part that was made to look like a jar, indicating something holding liquid, which was of course an alcoholic beverage of some sort in the mind of those reading the character. </p> <p>Enter the Chinese zodiac: 12 animal signs that are traditionally used to number years in sequence, as well as months, as well as consecutive two-hour periods in each 24-hour day. The tenth of these, corresponding to the tenth month (and the tenth year and the tenth hour) is tori, or chicken (or perhaps rooster or cock). However, the written characters assigned to each of these animals are not the standard characters for the animals themselves, but rather special characters and readings applied only for these zodiacal instances. </p> <p>This is where my detailed knowledge of Chinese characters and their adoption into Japanese breaks down and fades into near oblivion. For some reason, the ancient character for sake described above has been assigned to the tenth animal. It currently does not have any other use in either language. (The character, that is. Not the chicken. Chickens have lots of uses. But I digress again.) </p> <p>So, by fortuitous coincidence, October is represented in the ancient Chinese zodiac system, also embraced by Japan, by the old character for sake. Well, isn&#39;t that *convenient*. Sake brewing begins in the fall, usually in October. In fact, until a few decades ago, the fiscal year for sake brewers began on October 1 for that reason. As technology advanced to the point that brewers were able to start brewing much earlier and continue much later in the spring than before, that tax-related fiscal day was changed to July 1, but the original date of October 1 was certainly more apropos until recently. </p> <p>Indeed, October represents a beginning in the sake world: the beginning of a new brewing season. And the first day of this month is certainly a day worthy of note and some celebration in the sake world. And that is why October 1 is known as &quot;Nihonshu no Hi,&quot; or &quot;Sake Day,&quot; in Japan.</p> <p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Vodka Day</p> <p>5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bloody Mary??</p> <p>http://www.ediblecommunities.com/manhattan/september/october-2009/notable-edibles.htm</p> <p>Legend has it the world&#39;s first Bloody Mary was shaken precisely 75 years ago, on October 5, 1934-just five years after the invention of canned tomato juice-at the King Cole Bar in the St. Regis, the now-100-year-old beaux arts hotel founded by John Jacob Astor at the eminently exclusive corner of Fifth Avenue and 55th Street.</p> <p>Back then the bar served a worldly mix of socialites, including Serge Obolensky, vice chairman of the board of Hilton Hotels and a Russian native with a penchant for vodka. Obolensky asked barkeep Fernand Petiot, who&#39;d also tended a hotel bar in Paris, to re-create the vodka and tomato juice cocktail Obolensky had recently swilled in that city, and Mary-complete with salt, pepper, lemon and Worcestershire sauce and named for the Catholic English queen who had killed so many Protestants-was born.</p> <p>7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Frappe Day</p> <p>11&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; World Egg Day</p> <p>16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Liqueur Day</p> <p>17&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; First Oktoberfest Celebrated (1810)</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Brandied Fruit Day</p> <p>27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; American Beer Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">NOVEMBER</span></b></p> <p>National Pomegranate Month</p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Birth of Jerry Thomas (or there abouts) in 1830, or was it 1829?</p> <p>8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Harvey Wallbanger Day</p> <p>24&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Espresso Day</p> <p><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">DECEMBER</span></b></p> <p>National Egg Nog Month</p> <p>Second Week: Lager Beer Week</p> <p>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bloody Mary Day</p> <p>There is some dispute and some confusion regarding when the Bloody Mary was first concocted, and by who, and frankly, even what the recipe was. Many say that Fernand Petoit first created it at Harry&#39;s American Bar in Paris during the 1920&#39;s, where it was essentially just tomato juice and Vodka (vodka was available in Paris before it was being regularly seen in the US). Mr. Petoit then moved to the US in the 1930&#39;s where he was the head bartender at New York&#39;s St. Regis hotel. It is here that it is said that the drink went through a number of changes. First was that the more common gin was used instead of vodka. That it got the addition of Worcestershire, lemon juice, and Tabasco. And that it was given the name &quot;Red Snapper&quot; to be less vulgar. Later on, vodka would have been switched back in as the spirit, and the drink returned to its original name of Bloody Mary.</p> <p>There are those however who point to George Jessel as being the originator of the drink. He himself has some slightly conflicting stories, one claims (from &quot;The World I Lived In&quot; 1975) that it was in 1927 in Palm Beach, that he mixed vodka, Worcestershire sauce, tomato juice and lemon to help with a hangover. But in an Ad that appeared in Colliers Magazine, March 30, 1956, George Jessel claims that he simply mixed (Smirnoff) vodka and tomato juice together.</p> <p>In an interview with Fernand Petoit which appeared in the July 18, 1964 edition of the New Yorker, Mr. Petoit says: &quot;...George Jessel said he created it, but it was really nothing but vodka and tomato juice when I took it over. I cover the bottom of the shaker with four large dashes of salt, two dashes of black pepper, two dashes of cayenne pepper, and a layer of Worcestershire sauce; I then add a dash of lemon juice and some cracked ice, put in two ounces of vodka and two ounces of thick tomaoto juice, shake, strain, and pour.&quot;</p> <p>So it appear as though that while there is some contradictory overlapping of these stories, the thread of commonality here is that Mr. Petoit admits as to not as specifically &quot;inventing&quot; the drink, but &quot;perfecting&quot; it.</p> <p>5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prohibition repealed in U.S. (1933)</p> <p>10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Lager Day</p> <p>12&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Ambrosia Day</p> <p>13&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Cocoa Day</p> <p>14&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Death of Jerry Thomas (1885)</p> <p>20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Sangria Day</p> <p>24&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Eggnog Day</p> <p>30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Bicarbonate Of Soda Day</p> <p>31&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Champagne Day</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Coffee Days:</p> <p>May 6 = National Coffee Day</p> <p>May 24 = National Coffee Day in Brazil</p> <p>July 22 = Coffee Week</p> <p>July 24= Coffee Day</p> <p>August = National Coffee Month</p> <p>September 12 = National Coffee Day in Costa Rica</p> <p>September 19 = National Coffee Day in Ireland</p> <p>September 29 = National Coffee Day</p> <p>October 1 = National Coffee Day in Japan</p> <p>November 24 = National Espresso Day</p> <p>December 26 = Coffee Percolator Day</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Websites:</p> <p><a href="http://www.thenibble.com/fun/more/facts/food-holidays.asp">http://www.thenibble.com/fun/more/facts/food-holidays.asp</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.tfdutch.com/foodh.htm">http://www.tfdutch.com/foodh.htm</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/National_Symbols/American_Hollidays.html">http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/National_Symbols/American_Hollidays.html</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.partyguideonline.com/months/Gregorian.html">http://www.partyguideonline.com/months/Gregorian.html</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.mypunchbowl.com/holidays/">http://www.mypunchbowl.com/holidays/</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.anyexcuseforaparty.com/excuses.htm">http://www.anyexcuseforaparty.com/excuses.htm</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>http://chanticleersociety.org/wikis/cocktails/pisco-sour-july-28-1904/revision/0.aspxSun, 20 Jun 2010 03:59:01 GMTab16d238-d288-4c4b-8334-8811e5ee88a1:24Pisco Sour Current revision posted to Cocktail History by Pisco Sour on 6/19/2010 11:59:01 PM<br /> <h2>Pisco Sour ~ July 28, 1904 </h2> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Filed under: <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Pisco</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">,</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Sour</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">,</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Lime</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">,</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Peru</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">,</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Lima</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">,</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">847</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">,</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Boza</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">,</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Calle</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">,</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Bar</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">,</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">egg</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">,</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">white</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">,</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Victor</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">,</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Vaughen</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">,</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Morris</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">,</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">1904</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">,</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Independance</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">,</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Innoguration</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">,</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Cerro</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">,</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">de</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">,</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Pasco</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">,</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Registery</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">,</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Register</span></div> <p>Article: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1519215173&amp;v=app_2347471856">http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1519215173&amp;v=app_2347471856</a></p> <p>&nbsp;Written by: Donna Morris </p> <div class="photo photo_left"> <div class="photo_img"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=857140&amp;op=1&amp;view=all&amp;subj=361649974928&amp;aid=-1&amp;auser=0&amp;oid=361649974928&amp;id=1519215173"><img src="http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs267.ash1/19449_1339314452463_1519215173_857140_2577967_a.jpg" class="img" alt="" /></a></div> <div class="caption">Victors Family in Wales England Crest.</div> </div> <p><br /><br />ENGLISH - ENGLISH - ENGLISH<br /><br />1873- The 5 of August are born in Salt Lake City. Utah EE.UU. <br /><br />1899- It works in the Floreria of his brother greater Burton C. Morris <br />1900- To the death of his older brother, it assumes the Management of the Floreria <br />1901- It prepares and it decorates the scene for an honor banquet, supervising the decoration with roses, carnations, violets, palms and electrical lights, that the guests describe as &ldquo;an extraordinary painting as rare brightness&rdquo;, in that opportunity it shows his liking by the bar, preparing and creating falsified drinks. <br />In August of that same year an important event is celebrated and they order the decoration to him of its native city Salt Lake City, and also the preparation of all the bar. <br /><br />1902- Tens of mining experts of EE.UU. Emigran to Hill the mining Earth of Pasco 1903- Hill of Pasco Railwy Company contract to A.E.Welby, friend of Victor V. Morris. <br /><br />1903- Earlier this year Victor Vaughen Morris sells florer&iacute;a in Salt Lake City 1903- The 8 of June Victor V. Morris embark in Californian port, course to Hill the mining Earth of Pasco, contracted by the Hill of Pasco Railway Company, that already constructed to the section of 82 miles of the railway line between the Basket and Hill of Pasco <br /><br />1904- The 7 of Julio are finished to the rails of the train between the Basket and Hill of Pasco </p> <p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=891036&amp;op=1&amp;view=all&amp;subj=361649974928&amp;aid=-1&amp;auser=0&amp;oid=361649974928&amp;id=1519215173"><span style="background: SpringGreen;"><img src="http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs366.snc3/23611_1355769303824_1519215173_891036_7286194_n.jpg" class=" img" alt="" /></span></a><br /><br />1904- 28 of Julio agreeing with the anniversary of the independence of Peru, the ceremony of Inauguration is realised with much pomp, of the arrival of the first train that takes number 100 to the station of the Hill of Pasco.<br /></p> <div class="photo photo_none"> <div class="photo_img"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=891036&amp;op=1&amp;view=all&amp;subj=361649974928&amp;aid=-1&amp;auser=0&amp;oid=361649974928&amp;id=1519215173"><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"><img src="http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs366.snc3/23611_1355769303824_1519215173_891036_7286194_n.jpg" class=" img" alt="" /></span></p> <div class="photo photo_none"> <div class="photo_img">Victor Vaughen Morris was the host of the ceremony participating in the organization and the decorations of the event, also directed the preparation of the drinks that I invite the contenders, was so great I number of guests whom lack of whiskey to continue are preparing the cocktails like the Sour Whiskey I replace, it with Peruvian Pisco, and its surprise was immense when verifying that the flavor of the new cocktail was insurmountable and from that moment but asked for by the concurrence to I finish of the event, being born therefore famous <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>PISCO SOUR</strong></span></div> </div> <p>&nbsp;</p>http://chanticleersociety.org/wikis/cocktails/pisco-sour-july-28-1904/revision/1.aspxSun, 20 Jun 2010 03:35:45 GMTab16d238-d288-4c4b-8334-8811e5ee88a1:71Pisco Sour Revision 1 posted to Cocktail History by Pisco Sour on 6/19/2010 11:35:45 PM<br /> <p>Article: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1519215173&amp;v=app_2347471856">http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1519215173&amp;v=app_2347471856</a></p> <p>&nbsp;Written by: Donna Morris </p> <div class="photo photo_left"> <div class="photo_img"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=857140&amp;op=1&amp;view=all&amp;subj=361649974928&amp;aid=-1&amp;auser=0&amp;oid=361649974928&amp;id=1519215173"><img src="http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs267.ash1/19449_1339314452463_1519215173_857140_2577967_a.jpg" class="img" alt="" /></a></div> <div class="caption">Victors Family in Wales England Crest.</div> </div> <p><br /><br />ENGLISH - ENGLISH - ENGLISH<br /><br />1873- The 5 of August are born in Salt Lake City. Utah EE.UU. <br /><br />1899- It works in the Floreria of his brother greater Burton C. Morris <br />1900- To the death of his older brother, it assumes the Management of the Floreria <br />1901- It prepares and it decorates the scene for an honor banquet, supervising the decoration with roses, carnations, violets, palms and electrical lights, that the guests describe as &ldquo;an extraordinary painting as rare brightness&rdquo;, in that opportunity it shows his liking by the bar, preparing and creating falsified drinks. <br />In August of that same year an important event is celebrated and they order the decoration to him of its native city Salt Lake City, and also the preparation of all the bar. <br /><br />1902- Tens of mining experts of EE.UU. Emigran to Hill the mining Earth of Pasco 1903- Hill of Pasco Railwy Company contract to A.E.Welby, friend of Victor V. Morris. <br /><br />1903- Earlier this year Victor Vaughen Morris sells florer&iacute;a in Salt Lake City 1903- The 8 of June Victor V. Morris embark in Californian port, course to Hill the mining Earth of Pasco, contracted by the Hill of Pasco Railway Company, that already constructed to the section of 82 miles of the railway line between the Basket and Hill of Pasco <br /><br />1904- The 7 of Julio are finished to the rails of the train between the Basket and Hill of Pasco <br /><br />1904- 28 of Julio agreeing with the anniversary of the independence of Peru, the ceremony of Inauguration is realised with much pomp, of the arrival of the first train that takes number 100 to the station of the Hill of Pasco. <br /></p> <div class="photo photo_none"> <div class="photo_img"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=891036&amp;op=1&amp;view=all&amp;subj=361649974928&amp;aid=-1&amp;auser=0&amp;oid=361649974928&amp;id=1519215173"><img src="http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs366.snc3/23611_1355769303824_1519215173_891036_7286194_n.jpg" class=" img" alt="" /></a></div> </div> <p><br /></p> <div class="photo photo_none"> <div class="photo_img"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1142258&amp;op=1&amp;view=all&amp;subj=361649974928&amp;aid=-1&amp;auser=0&amp;oid=361649974928&amp;id=1519215173"> <div style="filter:progid;width:460px;height:421px;cursor:pointer;"></div> </a></div> </div> <p><br /><br />Victor Vaughen Morris was the host of the ceremony participating in the organization and the decorations of the event, also directed the preparation of the drinks that I invite the contenders, was so great I number of guests whom lack of whiskey to continue are preparing the cocktails like the Sour Whiskey I replace, it with Peruvian Pisco, and its surprise was immense when verifying that the flavor of the new cocktail was insurmountable and from that moment but asked for by the concurrence to I finish of the event, being born therefore famous <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>PISCO SOUR</strong></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>http://chanticleersociety.org/wikis/cocktails/gin-and-tonic/revision/0.aspxMon, 12 Oct 2009 13:31:34 GMTab16d238-d288-4c4b-8334-8811e5ee88a1:23Christopher McCollumCurrent revision posted to Cocktail History by Christopher McCollum on 10/12/2009 9:31:34 AM<br /> <h2>Gin and Tonic</h2> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Filed under: <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">gin</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">,</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">tonic</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">,</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">history</span></div> <table> <caption><span style="background: SpringGreen;">Gin</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">and</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Tonic</span></caption> <tbody> <tr> <td> <p>The Gin and Tonic has an auspicious beginning, as both ingredients were initially intended to simply be for medicinal use.&nbsp;</p> <p>Gin was invented around the year 1650 by a Dutch professor who was known by two different names; Sylvuis,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Franz de la Bo&eacute;. The original idea behind it was that the juniper berries would help with kidney ailments, but it&nbsp;was only a few years before English soldiers in the area began taking pleasure in the newly crafted spirit. &nbsp;Within a decade, it was being commercially produced in England, and before long, Gin Madness began, as it was cheaper than beer, and cleaner than water. By 1750, the people of London were consuming an estimated 11 million gallons of Gin per year, even though the entire population of England was merely 2.5 million.</p> <p>Tonic, likewise, was also intended as a medicine. Soldiers in the British East India Company were being given quinine tablets in order to fight malaria, which was running rampant through their ranks in the middle of the 19th century. In order to water down the bitter qualities of quinine, the tablets were dropped into water, creating tonic water. Many soldiers in the Company still did not particularly enjoy the taste, so they began introducing Gin, to improve the flavor. The Gin and Tonic was born, and by 1858, it had been patented as a mixer for alcoholic beverages.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"><img alt="Beefeater Dry Gin, Krest Tonic Water" width="150" style="border:4px solid black;" border="0" src="/resized-image.ashx/__size/300x0/__key/CommunityServer.Wikis.Components.Files/cocktails/0675.gintonic.jpg" /></span><br />&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">In</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">a</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">high-ball</span> </p> </td> <td><span style="background: SpringGreen;"><img src="/resized-image.ashx/__size/300x0/__key/CommunityServer.Wikis.Components.Files/cocktails/0675.gintonic.jpg" border="0" style="border:4px solid black;" width="150" alt="Beefeater Dry Gin, Krest Tonic Water" /></span><br /><ol> <li><span style="background: SpringGreen;">High-ball</span> glass<span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">,</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">mix</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">over</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">ice</span>&nbsp;</li> <li><span style="background: SpringGreen;">Ice</span></li> <li>2oz Gin</li> <li>1oz Tonic Water</li> <li>Garnish with <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">1-2</span> lime<span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">wedges</span></li> </ol> <p>&nbsp;</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table>http://chanticleersociety.org/wikis/cocktails/gin-and-tonic/revision/2.aspxMon, 12 Oct 2009 13:22:47 GMTab16d238-d288-4c4b-8334-8811e5ee88a1:48Christopher McCollumRevision 2 posted to Cocktail History by Christopher McCollum on 10/12/2009 9:22:47 AM<br /> <h2>Gin and Tonic</h2> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Filed under: gin, tonic, history</div> <p>The Gin and Tonic has an auspicious beginning, as both ingredients were initially intended to simply be for medicinal use.&nbsp;</p> <p>Gin was invented around the year 1650 by a Dutch professor who was known by two different names; Sylvuis,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Franz de la Bo&eacute;. The original idea behind it was that the juniper berries would help with kidney ailments, but it&nbsp;was only a few years before English soldiers in the area began taking pleasure in the newly crafted spirit. &nbsp;Within a decade, it was being commercially produced in England, and before long, Gin Madness began, as it was cheaper than beer, and cleaner than water. By 1750, the people of London were consuming an estimated 11 million gallons of Gin per year, even though the entire population of England was merely 2.5 million.</p> <p>Tonic, likewise, was also intended as a medicine. Soldiers in the British East India Company were being given quinine tablets in order to fight malaria, which was running rampant through their ranks in the middle of the 19th century. In order to water down the bitter qualities of quinine, the tablets were dropped into water, creating tonic water. Many soldiers in the Company still did not particularly enjoy the taste, so they began introducing Gin, to improve the flavor. The Gin and Tonic was born, and by 1858, it had been patented as a mixer for alcoholic beverages.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="background: SpringGreen;"><img alt="Beefeater Dry Gin, Krest Tonic Water" width="150" style="border:4px solid black;" border="0" src="/resized-image.ashx/__size/300x0/__key/CommunityServer.Wikis.Components.Files/cocktails/0675.gintonic.jpg" /></span><br />&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <span style="background: SpringGreen;">In</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">a</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">high-ball</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">glass</span><span style="background: SpringGreen;">,</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">mix</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">over</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">ice</span><br />&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<span style="background: SpringGreen;">2oz</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Gin</span><br />&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <span style="background: SpringGreen;">1oz</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Tonic</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Water</span><br />&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Garnish</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">with</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">1-2</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">lime</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">wedges</span></p>http://chanticleersociety.org/wikis/cocktails/gin-and-tonic/revision/1.aspxSun, 11 Oct 2009 21:14:02 GMTab16d238-d288-4c4b-8334-8811e5ee88a1:47Christopher McCollumRevision 1 posted to Cocktail History by Christopher McCollum on 10/11/2009 5:14:02 PM<br /> <p>The Gin and Tonic has an auspicious beginning, as both ingredients were initially intended to simply be for medicinal use.&nbsp;</p> <p>Gin was invented around the year 1650 by a Dutch professor who was known by two different names; Sylvuis, and&nbsp;Franz de la Bo&eacute;. The original idea behind it was that the juniper berries would help with kidney ailments, but it was only a few years before English soldiers in the area began taking pleasure in the newly crafted spirit. &nbsp;Within a decade, it was being commercially produced in England, and before long, Gin Madness began, as it was cheaper than beer, and cleaner than water. By 1750, the people of London were consuming an estimated 11 million gallons of Gin per year, even though the entire population of England was merely 2.5 million.</p> <p>Tonic, likewise, was also intended as a medicine. Soldiers in the British East India Company were being given quinine tablets in order to fight malaria, which was running rampant through their ranks in the middle of the 19th century. In order to water down the bitter qualities of quinine, the tablets were dropped into water, creating tonic water. Many soldiers in the Company still did not particularly enjoy the taste, so they began introducing Gin, to improve the flavor. The Gin and Tonic was born, and by 1858, it had been patented as a mixer for alcoholic beverages.</p>http://chanticleersociety.org/wikis/cocktails/ramos-gin-fizz/revision/0.aspxFri, 06 Feb 2009 22:15:25 GMTab16d238-d288-4c4b-8334-8811e5ee88a1:15Robert HessCurrent revision posted to Cocktail History by Robert Hess on 2/6/2009 5:15:25 PM<br /> <h2>Ramos Gin Fizz</h2> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>New Orleans Item-Tribune</strong><br /><em>Sunday, September 23, 1928</em></p> <h2>How Late H. C. Ramos Made His World Famous Gin Fizz;</h2> <h3>Intimate Glimpses of the Man</h3> <p>A tribute to one of New Orleans&#39; greatest treasures, the Original Ramos Gin Fizz, was written some years ago by Don Higgins of the Item-Tribune staff. Henry Charles Ramos, the creator of that famous drink, died last Tuesday, and Mr. Higgins&#39; story of the drink itself is a fitting epilogue to Mr. Ramos&#39; useful and genial life. The article is reprinted herewith.</p> <blockquote> <p> <table align="right"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="http://www.ChanticleerSociety.org/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Wikis.Components.Files/cocktails/1881.Ramos.jpg" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"><img src="http://www.ChanticleerSociety.org/resized-image.ashx/__size/200/__key/CommunityServer.Wikis.Components.Files/cocktails/1881.Ramos.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></span></p> <blockquote> <p> <table align="right"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="center"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.ChanticleerSociety.org/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Wikis.Components.Files/cocktails/1881.Ramos.jpg"><span style="background: SpringGreen;"><img src="http://www.ChanticleerSociety.org/resized-image.ashx/__size/200x0/__key/CommunityServer.Wikis.Components.Files/cocktails/1881.Ramos.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></span></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span style="font-size:xx-small;"><i>Henry Charles Ramos<span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">,</span> <br />inventor of the Ramos Gin Fizz</i></span></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> Just the old fellows with a tender spot in their hearts and a longing in their stomachs for the ripe days of yore when mixed drinks were cool and smooth and stimulating, poignant and refreshing, expanding and enheartening, trouble erasing and joy bringing, plentiful and inexpensive-just the old fellows who were the good fellows are invited to read this column.</p> <p>Upstarts, turn to some other story. Ladies, bless you, this won&#39;t interest you. Raw liquor drinkers, there&#39;s nothing here for you either.</p> <p><strong>A Boon to the World</strong></p> <p>But you old boys who could and still can delight in the fragrant bouquet, the correct blend and the delicious taste of a mixed drink that may be described without hyperbole as an artistic creation, here&#39;s to the point and right smartly:</p> <p>That delightful old gentleman, Henry C. Ramos, whose palace de palate, coarsely called a bar, was known before July of 1919 to every real connoisseur of drinks in the civilized world, has consented to publish for the first time his formula for the &quot;ONE AND ONLY ONE,&quot; otherwise and more commonly named RAMOS&#39; ORIGINAL GIN FIZZ.</p> <p>Before you read and carefully file this formula, pause a moment as you used to pause before you sipped one of those snow white, velvety fizzes so that you might add the great pleasure of anticipation to the greater one of consumption. Pause and consider in awe the fortune about to befall you-you who have not been wafted into a nepenthean revelry for more than six long years by the gentle potency of that inspired decoction.</p> <p><strong>Tragedy of Prohibition</strong></p> <p>Pause while you recall the leaden feeling you had when the venerable Mr. Ramos, law abiding to the core, closed the doors of his bar at 712 Gravier street the moment the gong rang the dry law into effect, took his prized formula with him and announced he would never dispense beauty and calm repose again in liquid form so long as the government said no.</p> <p>Don&#39;t you remember hearing from the lips of others who loved those smooth fizzes and cocktails and juleps that the Ramos bar should be exempt from the law on the ground it never dispensed intoxicating liquors?</p> <p>&quot;Nobody could get drunk in the Ramos bar,&quot; was the word, &quot;not only because old Henry wouldn&#39;t let &#39;em, but because drunkenness would take away their appreciation of the drinks. And whoever heard of a man weak enough to get drunk on Ramos&#39; gin fizzes, anyhow? Inspired? Yes. Happy? Yes, yes. But drunk? No, no, no!&quot;</p> <p><strong>Secret of Revelation</strong></p> <p>Just one more little delay and then you may study the formula. You are probably wondering how it comes that Mr. Ramos now consents to make it public after these years of arid monotony, or punishment by bootleggers&#39; poison, as your case may be. Well, the surprising secret is that no one had the brass bound nerve to ask it of him before and he has been willing all along to give freely this boon to discriminating drinkers.</p> <p>In his roomy, cool old Creole home at 726 North Rampart street, the old gentleman received the caller who had suffered palpitations of the heart a few moments before when he was told by telephone the formula would be given him. </p> <p>You remember his ruddy face and genial blue eyes sparkling behind silver rimmed, ear bowed spectacles, his snowy hair, his pure white shirt with the diamond in its bosom, his short, stout frame? Ah, the artist that he was, and the meticulous care with which he supervised the making of those fizzes, the pains he took to build up those juleps that he alone could build, with their cool greenglades and limpid pools surmounted by a dazzling ice cap which sparkled in a hundred irridescences and sent forth the beautifully blended aroma of lemon, rosebuds, mint and cherry!</p> <p><strong>&quot;Drink Freely,&quot; Too</strong></p> <p>Answering the door himself, he gave cheery welcome and after a few commonplaces said impressively:</p> <p>&quot;Now I will give you the formula for the one and only one, the Ramos Original Gin Fizz. But in publishing it you must say that if success does not attend the first mixture, a second should be tried. And be sure to use an airtight shaker and to shake and shake and shake until there is not a bubble left but the drink is smooth and snowy white and of the consistency of good rich milk. The secret in success lies in the good care you take and in your patience, and be certain to use good material.&quot;</p> <p>With that Mr. Ramos handed over the following receipt.</p> <p><strong>&quot;One and Only One<br />Ramos&#39; Original Gin Fizz</strong></p> <ul> <li>(1) One tablespoonful powdered sugar.</li> <li>Three or four drops of Orange Flower Water.</li> <li>One-half lime (Juice).</li> <li>One-half lemon (Juice).</li> <li>(1) One Jigger of Old Tom Gin. (Old Gordon may be used but a sweet gin is preferable[)].</li> <li>The white of one egg.</li> <li>One-half glass of crushed ice.</li> <li>About (2) tablespoonsful of rich milk or cream.</li> <li>A little Seltzer water (about an ounce) to make it pungent.</li> </ul> <p>Together well shaken and strained (drink freely).</p> <p>To those who may have forgotten, a &quot;jigger&quot; is a stemmed sherry glass holding a little more than one ounce.</p> <p>Having the formula, old fellows, if you are as good M.D. professors as Mr. Ramos-or the mixologists who used to be with him-Paul Alpaute, Eddie Champon, and his brother, W. O. Ramos-and if you have the ingredients, you can magically erase the past six years with a few shakes and you will believe yourselves standing once more with a foot on the rail amid a group of choice drinkers in front of the mahogany at 712 Gravier street. Note well the last words of the formula: &quot;(Drink freely).&quot;</p> <p>------------------</p> <p>But as Mr. Higgins might have added, &quot;drink freely&quot; was an invitation only to gentleman drinkers. &quot;Drink wisely&quot; was his word to any others who, by sad mischance, found themselves usurping a place at the bar.</p> <p><strong>No Booze for Boozer</strong></p> <p>For Mr. Ramos was no mere vendor of drinks. With the pride of an artist, he demanded a properly appreciative clientele. He scorned the money of those who desecrated his liquid masterpieces by getting noisy on them. </p> <p>Portly and jovial he presided simultaneously over the work of his 15 or 20 helpers and pleasure of his guests. Their pleasure was his pleasure, but that pleasure must be measured. Did someone laugh two notes too high over a jolly quip from a friend? Mr. Ramos laughed with him, but below the bar his forefingers [sic] was pointing to the offender and his thumb was pointing straight at the floor. On the next round of drinks, the loud-voiced one was forgotten by the bartender.</p> <p>Temperance was a fundamental precept at the Ramos establishment. A Drunkard horrified him, and if gossip reported that some customer was hitting too hard a pace-even though he came sober always to the Ramos bar-Mr. Ramos would call him aside some evening and suggest that he stay out of the Ramos bar until he had mended his ways. </p> <p>It used to be said, mournfully, that if all the saloon-keepers had been like Mr. Ramos, prohibition would never have come to pass. More than that, it probably would never have been thought of. And why should it have been thought of?</p> <p><strong>No Drunks There</strong></p> <p>For no man ever got drunk at the Ramos bar, and no man could eat the lotus leaves there while an anxious wife burned a lamp in the window or sent a child to call his attention to the clock in the steeple, then striking 1 o&#39;clock.</p> <p>Promptly at 8 o&#39;clock every evening the doors of the Ramos bar were closed, and no one remained within. Mr. Ramos was firm about that, as about everything else, and the tinkle of cash registers in the saloons which roared on into the night, or into the dawn, could not lure him to sell a single Gin Fizz or Sherry Flip after the hour which he had set, without the law&#39;s suggestion[,] as a decent closing hour.</p> <p>So, too, on Sundays. While other saloons enjoyed a rushing trade, Mr. Ramos&#39; establishment presented a Sabbath mien to the world. At the almost tearful insistence of his regular patrons, who could not endure a full day without a drink and would drink nowhere else, he was prevailed upon to open his doors for an hour in the morning, 11 to 12, and for an hour in the evening, from 4:30 to 5:30. But he did not approve of this, and opened his doors with an air of resignation. It was against his principles, and if his customers had given him peace he would have kept the doors shut all day Sunday, Sunday-closing-law or no Sunday-closing-law.</p> <p>No one can guess the amount of money Mr. Ramos scorned by his rigid observance of his own principles. But he gained, at least, something he prized more highly than money-the respect of all his community. His customers were gentlemen, and he offered them gentlemanly entertainment.</p> <p>Gentlemen, of course, would not violate the law. Mr. Ramos would want no traffic with the kind of men who would drink when the law forbade it. So when prohibition laid its heavy hand on the land, in 1919, Mr. Ramos promptly shut his doors. </p> <p>&quot;I&#39;ve sold my last Gin Fizz,&quot; he announced at the stroke of midnight. Prohibition had come to the Ramos bar. But not temperance. Temperance had always been there.</p> <p align="center"><a href="/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Wikis.Components.Files/cocktails/1134.Ramos-Saloon.jpg"><img src="/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer.Wikis.Components.Files/cocktails/1134.Ramos-Saloon.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p> </blockquote> <p><em>[Transcribed by David Wondrich, 1/2007]</em></p>http://chanticleersociety.org/wikis/cocktails/ramos-gin-fizz/revision/2.aspxFri, 06 Feb 2009 22:02:50 GMTab16d238-d288-4c4b-8334-8811e5ee88a1:32Robert HessRevision 2 posted to Cocktail History by Robert Hess on 2/6/2009 5:02:50 PM<br /> <h2>Ramos Gin Fizz</h2> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>New Orleans Item-Tribune</strong><br /><em>Sunday, September 23, 1928</em></p> <h2>How Late H. C. Ramos Made His World Famous Gin Fizz;</h2> <h3>Intimate Glimpses of the Man</h3> <p>A tribute to one of New Orleans&#39; greatest treasures, the Original Ramos Gin Fizz, was written some years ago by Don Higgins of the Item-Tribune staff. Henry Charles Ramos, the creator of that famous drink, died last Tuesday, and Mr. Higgins&#39; story of the drink itself is a fitting epilogue to Mr. Ramos&#39; useful and genial life. The article is reprinted herewith.</p> <blockquote> <p> <table align="right"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="http://www.ChanticleerSociety.org/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Wikis.Components.Files/cocktails/1881.Ramos.jpg" target="_blank"><span style="background: SpringGreen;"><img src="http://www.ChanticleerSociety.org/resized-image.ashx/__size/200/__key/CommunityServer.Wikis.Components.Files/cocktails/1881.Ramos.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></span></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span style="font-size:xx-small;"><i><span style="background: SpringGreen;">Henry</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Charles</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Ramos</span><span style="background: SpringGreen;">,</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">inventor</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">of</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">the</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Ramos</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Gin</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Fizz</span></i></span></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> Just the old fellows with a tender spot in their hearts and a longing in their stomachs for the ripe days of yore when mixed drinks were cool and smooth and stimulating, poignant and refreshing, expanding and enheartening, trouble erasing and joy bringing, plentiful and inexpensive-just the old fellows who were the good fellows are invited to read this column.</p> <p>Upstarts, turn to some other story. Ladies, bless you, this won&#39;t interest you. Raw liquor drinkers, there&#39;s nothing here for you either.</p> <p><strong>A Boon to the World</strong></p> <p>But you old boys who could and still can delight in the fragrant bouquet, the correct blend and the delicious taste of a mixed drink that may be described without hyperbole as an artistic creation, here&#39;s to the point and right smartly:</p> <p>That delightful old gentleman, Henry C. Ramos, whose palace de palate, coarsely called a bar, was known before July of 1919 to every real connoisseur of drinks in the civilized world, has consented to publish for the first time his formula for the &quot;ONE AND ONLY ONE,&quot; otherwise and more commonly named RAMOS&#39; ORIGINAL GIN FIZZ.</p> <p>Before you read and carefully file this formula, pause a moment as you used to pause before you sipped one of those snow white, velvety fizzes so that you might add the great pleasure of anticipation to the greater one of consumption. Pause and consider in awe the fortune about to befall you-you who have not been wafted into a nepenthean revelry for more than six long years by the gentle potency of that inspired decoction.</p> <p><strong>Tragedy of Prohibition</strong></p> <p>Pause while you recall the leaden feeling you had when the venerable Mr. Ramos, law abiding to the core, closed the doors of his bar at 712 Gravier street the moment the gong rang the dry law into effect, took his prized formula with him and announced he would never dispense beauty and calm repose again in liquid form so long as the government said no.</p> <p>Don&#39;t you remember hearing from the lips of others who loved those smooth fizzes and cocktails and juleps that the Ramos bar should be exempt from the law on the ground it never dispensed intoxicating liquors?</p> <p>&quot;Nobody could get drunk in the Ramos bar,&quot; was the word, &quot;not only because old Henry wouldn&#39;t let &#39;em, but because drunkenness would take away their appreciation of the drinks. And whoever heard of a man weak enough to get drunk on Ramos&#39; gin fizzes, anyhow? Inspired? Yes. Happy? Yes, yes. But drunk? No, no, no!&quot;</p> <p><strong>Secret of Revelation</strong></p> <p>Just one more little delay and then you may study the formula. You are probably wondering how it comes that Mr. Ramos now consents to make it public after these years of arid monotony, or punishment by bootleggers&#39; poison, as your case may be. Well, the surprising secret is that no one had the brass bound nerve to ask it of him before and he has been willing all along to give freely this boon to discriminating drinkers.</p> <p>In his roomy, cool old Creole home at 726 North Rampart street, the old gentleman received the caller who had suffered palpitations of the heart a few moments before when he was told by telephone the formula would be given him. </p> <p>You remember his ruddy face and genial blue eyes sparkling behind silver rimmed, ear bowed spectacles, his snowy hair, his pure white shirt with the diamond in its bosom, his short, stout frame? Ah, the artist that he was, and the meticulous care with which he supervised the making of those fizzes, the pains he took to build up those juleps that he alone could build, with their cool greenglades and limpid pools surmounted by a dazzling ice cap which sparkled in a hundred irridescences and sent forth the beautifully blended aroma of lemon, rosebuds, mint and cherry!</p> <p><strong>&quot;Drink Freely,&quot; Too</strong></p> <p>Answering the door himself, he gave cheery welcome and after a few commonplaces said impressively:</p> <p>&quot;Now I will give you the formula for the one and only one, the Ramos Original Gin Fizz. But in publishing it you must say that if success does not attend the first mixture, a second should be tried. And be sure to use an airtight shaker and to shake and shake and shake until there is not a bubble left but the drink is smooth and snowy white and of the consistency of good rich milk. The secret in success lies in the good care you take and in your patience, and be certain to use good material.&quot;</p> <p>With that Mr. Ramos handed over the following receipt.</p> <p><strong>&quot;One and Only One<br />Ramos&#39; Original Gin Fizz</strong></p> <ul> <li>(1) One tablespoonful powdered sugar.</li> <li>Three or four drops of Orange Flower Water.</li> <li>One-half lime (Juice).</li> <li>One-half lemon (Juice).</li> <li>(1) One Jigger of Old Tom Gin. (Old Gordon may be used but a sweet gin is preferable[)].</li> <li>The white of one egg.</li> <li>One-half glass of crushed ice.</li> <li>About (2) tablespoonsful of rich milk or cream.</li> <li>A little Seltzer water (about an ounce) to make it pungent.</li> </ul> <p>Together well shaken and strained (drink freely).</p> <p>To those who may have forgotten, a &quot;jigger&quot; is a stemmed sherry glass holding a little more than one ounce.</p> <p>Having the formula, old fellows, if you are as good M.D. professors as Mr. Ramos-or the mixologists who used to be with him-Paul Alpaute, Eddie Champon, and his brother, W. O. Ramos-and if you have the ingredients, you can magically erase the past six years with a few shakes and you will believe yourselves standing once more with a foot on the rail amid a group of choice drinkers in front of the mahogany at 712 Gravier street. Note well the last words of the formula: &quot;(Drink freely).&quot;</p> <p>------------------</p> <p>But as Mr. Higgins might have added, &quot;drink freely&quot; was an invitation only to gentleman drinkers. &quot;Drink wisely&quot; was his word to any others who, by sad mischance, found themselves usurping a place at the bar.</p> <p><strong>No Booze for Boozer</strong></p> <p>For Mr. Ramos was no mere vendor of drinks. With the pride of an artist, he demanded a properly appreciative clientele. He scorned the money of those who desecrated his liquid masterpieces by getting noisy on them. </p> <p>Portly and jovial he presided simultaneously over the work of his 15 or 20 helpers and pleasure of his guests. Their pleasure was his pleasure, but that pleasure must be measured. Did someone laugh two notes too high over a jolly quip from a friend? Mr. Ramos laughed with him, but below the bar his forefingers [sic] was pointing to the offender and his thumb was pointing straight at the floor. On the next round of drinks, the loud-voiced one was forgotten by the bartender.</p> <p>Temperance was a fundamental precept at the Ramos establishment. A Drunkard horrified him, and if gossip reported that some customer was hitting too hard a pace-even though he came sober always to the Ramos bar-Mr. Ramos would call him aside some evening and suggest that he stay out of the Ramos bar until he had mended his ways. </p> <p>It used to be said, mournfully, that if all the saloon-keepers had been like Mr. Ramos, prohibition would never have come to pass. More than that, it probably would never have been thought of. And why should it have been thought of?</p> <p><strong>No Drunks There</strong></p> <p>For no man ever got drunk at the Ramos bar, and no man could eat the lotus leaves there while an anxious wife burned a lamp in the window or sent a child to call his attention to the clock in the steeple, then striking 1 o&#39;clock.</p> <p>Promptly at 8 o&#39;clock every evening the doors of the Ramos bar were closed, and no one remained within. Mr. Ramos was firm about that, as about everything else, and the tinkle of cash registers in the saloons which roared on into the night, or into the dawn, could not lure him to sell a single Gin Fizz or Sherry Flip after the hour which he had set, without the law&#39;s suggestion[,] as a decent closing hour.</p> <p>So, too, on Sundays. While other saloons enjoyed a rushing trade, Mr. Ramos&#39; establishment presented a Sabbath mien to the world. At the almost tearful insistence of his regular patrons, who could not endure a full day without a drink and would drink nowhere else, he was prevailed upon to open his doors for an hour in the morning, 11 to 12, and for an hour in the evening, from 4:30 to 5:30. But he did not approve of this, and opened his doors with an air of resignation. It was against his principles, and if his customers had given him peace he would have kept the doors shut all day Sunday, Sunday-closing-law or no Sunday-closing-law.</p> <p>No one can guess the amount of money Mr. Ramos scorned by his rigid observance of his own principles. But he gained, at least, something he prized more highly than money-the respect of all his community. His customers were gentlemen, and he offered them gentlemanly entertainment.</p> <p>Gentlemen, of course, would not violate the law. Mr. Ramos would want no traffic with the kind of men who would drink when the law forbade it. So when prohibition laid its heavy hand on the land, in 1919, Mr. Ramos promptly shut his doors. </p> <p>&quot;I&#39;ve sold my last Gin Fizz,&quot; he announced at the stroke of midnight. Prohibition had come to the Ramos bar. But not temperance. Temperance had always been there.</p> <p align="center"><a href="/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Wikis.Components.Files/cocktails/1134.Ramos-Saloon.jpg"><span style="background: SpringGreen;"><img src="/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer.Wikis.Components.Files/cocktails/1134.Ramos-Saloon.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></span></a></p> </blockquote> <p><em>[Transcribed by David Wondrich, 1/2007]</em></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"><img src="http://www.ChanticleerSociety.org/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Wikis.Components.Files/cocktails/1881.Ramos.jpg" alt="" /></span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Henry</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Charles</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Ramos</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">,</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">inventor</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">of</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">the</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Ramos</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Gin</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Fizz</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Wikis.Components.Files/cocktails/1881.Ramos.jpg"></a></p> <p><a href="/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Wikis.Components.Files/cocktails/1134.Ramos-Saloon.jpg"><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;"><img src="/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer.Wikis.Components.Files/cocktails/1134.Ramos-Saloon.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></span></em></p>http://chanticleersociety.org/wikis/cocktails/ramos-gin-fizz/revision/1.aspxFri, 06 Feb 2009 21:49:26 GMTab16d238-d288-4c4b-8334-8811e5ee88a1:31Robert HessRevision 1 posted to Cocktail History by Robert Hess on 2/6/2009 4:49:26 PM<br /> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>New Orleans Item-Tribune</strong><br /><em>Sunday, September 23, 1928</em></p> <h2>How Late H. C. Ramos Made His World Famous Gin Fizz;</h2> <h3>Intimate Glimpses of the Man</h3> <p>A tribute to one of New Orleans&#39; greatest treasures, the Original Ramos Gin Fizz, was written some years ago by Don Higgins of the Item-Tribune staff. Henry Charles Ramos, the creator of that famous drink, died last Tuesday, and Mr. Higgins&#39; story of the drink itself is a fitting epilogue to Mr. Ramos&#39; useful and genial life. The article is reprinted herewith.</p> <blockquote> <p>Just the old fellows with a tender spot in their hearts and a longing in their stomachs for the ripe days of yore when mixed drinks were cool and smooth and stimulating, poignant and refreshing, expanding and enheartening, trouble erasing and joy bringing, plentiful and inexpensive-just the old fellows who were the good fellows are invited to read this column.</p> <p>Upstarts, turn to some other story. Ladies, bless you, this won&#39;t interest you. Raw liquor drinkers, there&#39;s nothing here for you either.</p> <p><strong>A Boon to the World</strong></p> <p>But you old boys who could and still can delight in the fragrant bouquet, the correct blend and the delicious taste of a mixed drink that may be described without hyperbole as an artistic creation, here&#39;s to the point and right smartly:</p> <p>That delightful old gentleman, Henry C. Ramos, whose palace de palate, coarsely called a bar, was known before July of 1919 to every real connoisseur of drinks in the civilized world, has consented to publish for the first time his formula for the &quot;ONE AND ONLY ONE,&quot; otherwise and more commonly named RAMOS&#39; ORIGINAL GIN FIZZ.</p> <p>Before you read and carefully file this formula, pause a moment as you used to pause before you sipped one of those snow white, velvety fizzes so that you might add the great pleasure of anticipation to the greater one of consumption. Pause and consider in awe the fortune about to befall you-you who have not been wafted into a nepenthean revelry for more than six long years by the gentle potency of that inspired decoction.</p> <p><strong>Tragedy of Prohibition</strong></p> <p>Pause while you recall the leaden feeling you had when the venerable Mr. Ramos, law abiding to the core, closed the doors of his bar at 712 Gravier street the moment the gong rang the dry law into effect, took his prized formula with him and announced he would never dispense beauty and calm repose again in liquid form so long as the government said no.</p> <p>Don&#39;t you remember hearing from the lips of others who loved those smooth fizzes and cocktails and juleps that the Ramos bar should be exempt from the law on the ground it never dispensed intoxicating liquors?</p> <p>&quot;Nobody could get drunk in the Ramos bar,&quot; was the word, &quot;not only because old Henry wouldn&#39;t let &#39;em, but because drunkenness would take away their appreciation of the drinks. And whoever heard of a man weak enough to get drunk on Ramos&#39; gin fizzes, anyhow? Inspired? Yes. Happy? Yes, yes. But drunk? No, no, no!&quot;</p> <p><strong>Secret of Revelation</strong></p> <p>Just one more little delay and then you may study the formula. You are probably wondering how it comes that Mr. Ramos now consents to make it public after these years of arid monotony, or punishment by bootleggers&#39; poison, as your case may be. Well, the surprising secret is that no one had the brass bound nerve to ask it of him before and he has been willing all along to give freely this boon to discriminating drinkers.</p> <p>In his roomy, cool old Creole home at 726 North Rampart street, the old gentleman received the caller who had suffered palpitations of the heart a few moments before when he was told by telephone the formula would be given him. </p> <p>You remember his ruddy face and genial blue eyes sparkling behind silver rimmed, ear bowed spectacles, his snowy hair, his pure white shirt with the diamond in its bosom, his short, stout frame? Ah, the artist that he was, and the meticulous care with which he supervised the making of those fizzes, the pains he took to build up those juleps that he alone could build, with their cool greenglades and limpid pools surmounted by a dazzling ice cap which sparkled in a hundred irridescences and sent forth the beautifully blended aroma of lemon, rosebuds, mint and cherry!</p> <p><strong>&quot;Drink Freely,&quot; Too</strong></p> <p>Answering the door himself, he gave cheery welcome and after a few commonplaces said impressively:</p> <p>&quot;Now I will give you the formula for the one and only one, the Ramos Original Gin Fizz. But in publishing it you must say that if success does not attend the first mixture, a second should be tried. And be sure to use an airtight shaker and to shake and shake and shake until there is not a bubble left but the drink is smooth and snowy white and of the consistency of good rich milk. The secret in success lies in the good care you take and in your patience, and be certain to use good material.&quot;</p> <p>With that Mr. Ramos handed over the following receipt.</p> <p><strong>&quot;One and Only One<br />Ramos&#39; Original Gin Fizz</strong></p> <ul> <li>(1) One tablespoonful powdered sugar.</li> <li>Three or four drops of Orange Flower Water.</li> <li>One-half lime (Juice).</li> <li>One-half lemon (Juice).</li> <li>(1) One Jigger of Old Tom Gin. (Old Gordon may be used but a sweet gin is preferable[)].</li> <li>The white of one egg.</li> <li>One-half glass of crushed ice.</li> <li>About (2) tablespoonsful of rich milk or cream.</li> <li>A little Seltzer water (about an ounce) to make it pungent.</li> </ul> <p>Together well shaken and strained (drink freely).</p> <p>To those who may have forgotten, a &quot;jigger&quot; is a stemmed sherry glass holding a little more than one ounce.</p> <p>Having the formula, old fellows, if you are as good M.D. professors as Mr. Ramos-or the mixologists who used to be with him-Paul Alpaute, Eddie Champon, and his brother, W. O. Ramos-and if you have the ingredients, you can magically erase the past six years with a few shakes and you will believe yourselves standing once more with a foot on the rail amid a group of choice drinkers in front of the mahogany at 712 Gravier street. Note well the last words of the formula: &quot;(Drink freely).&quot;</p> <p>------------------</p> <p>But as Mr. Higgins might have added, &quot;drink freely&quot; was an invitation only to gentleman drinkers. &quot;Drink wisely&quot; was his word to any others who, by sad mischance, found themselves usurping a place at the bar.</p> <p><strong>No Booze for Boozer</strong></p> <p>For Mr. Ramos was no mere vendor of drinks. With the pride of an artist, he demanded a properly appreciative clientele. He scorned the money of those who desecrated his liquid masterpieces by getting noisy on them. </p> <p>Portly and jovial he presided simultaneously over the work of his 15 or 20 helpers and pleasure of his guests. Their pleasure was his pleasure, but that pleasure must be measured. Did someone laugh two notes too high over a jolly quip from a friend? Mr. Ramos laughed with him, but below the bar his forefingers [sic] was pointing to the offender and his thumb was pointing straight at the floor. On the next round of drinks, the loud-voiced one was forgotten by the bartender.</p> <p>Temperance was a fundamental precept at the Ramos establishment. A Drunkard horrified him, and if gossip reported that some customer was hitting too hard a pace-even though he came sober always to the Ramos bar-Mr. Ramos would call him aside some evening and suggest that he stay out of the Ramos bar until he had mended his ways. </p> <p>It used to be said, mournfully, that if all the saloon-keepers had been like Mr. Ramos, prohibition would never have come to pass. More than that, it probably would never have been thought of. And why should it have been thought of?</p> <p><strong>No Drunks There</strong></p> <p>For no man ever got drunk at the Ramos bar, and no man could eat the lotus leaves there while an anxious wife burned a lamp in the window or sent a child to call his attention to the clock in the steeple, then striking 1 o&#39;clock.</p> <p>Promptly at 8 o&#39;clock every evening the doors of the Ramos bar were closed, and no one remained within. Mr. Ramos was firm about that, as about everything else, and the tinkle of cash registers in the saloons which roared on into the night, or into the dawn, could not lure him to sell a single Gin Fizz or Sherry Flip after the hour which he had set, without the law&#39;s suggestion[,] as a decent closing hour.</p> <p>So, too, on Sundays. While other saloons enjoyed a rushing trade, Mr. Ramos&#39; establishment presented a Sabbath mien to the world. At the almost tearful insistence of his regular patrons, who could not endure a full day without a drink and would drink nowhere else, he was prevailed upon to open his doors for an hour in the morning, 11 to 12, and for an hour in the evening, from 4:30 to 5:30. But he did not approve of this, and opened his doors with an air of resignation. It was against his principles, and if his customers had given him peace he would have kept the doors shut all day Sunday, Sunday-closing-law or no Sunday-closing-law.</p> <p>No one can guess the amount of money Mr. Ramos scorned by his rigid observance of his own principles. But he gained, at least, something he prized more highly than money-the respect of all his community. His customers were gentlemen, and he offered them gentlemanly entertainment.</p> <p>Gentlemen, of course, would not violate the law. Mr. Ramos would want no traffic with the kind of men who would drink when the law forbade it. So when prohibition laid its heavy hand on the land, in 1919, Mr. Ramos promptly shut his doors. </p> <p>&quot;I&#39;ve sold my last Gin Fizz,&quot; he announced at the stroke of midnight. Prohibition had come to the Ramos bar. But not temperance. Temperance had always been there.</p> </blockquote> <p><em>[Transcribed by David Wondrich, 1/2007]</em></p> <p><img src="http://www.ChanticleerSociety.org/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Wikis.Components.Files/cocktails/1881.Ramos.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p>Henry Charles Ramos, inventor of the Ramos Gin Fizz</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Wikis.Components.Files/cocktails/1881.Ramos.jpg"></a></p> <p><a href="/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Wikis.Components.Files/cocktails/1134.Ramos-Saloon.jpg"><img src="/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer.Wikis.Components.Files/cocktails/1134.Ramos-Saloon.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p>