Practical info for the smarter drinker
Bitters, once the sole province of masterful barroom mixologists, are returning to the spotlight thanks to the growing popularity of Prohibition Era cocktails and old-timey booze recipes that often include the herbal mixture. Making bitters involves a delicate process of mixing herbal flavors, either through infusion or distillation, in a balanced base of water and …
Prohibition, for those of you who are not familiar with this dark chapter of American history, was the period between 1920 and 1933 when there was a federal ban on alcohol. That’s right – alcohol was illegal across the entire country. Of course, that didn’t stop people who wanted a drink from finding one, which …
Remember the good old days of Prohibition? Well, probably not, but it is a fine example of the fact that the laws regarding alcohol have a way of changing and evolving. And, depending on who you ask, sometimes those changes are for the better, and sometimes they are not. Of course, Prohibition was a federal …