You've got to love a drink named the Hanky Panky
To fully appreciate the cocktail's charm, it helps to know the story behind the drink.
In the early 1900s, a bartender named Ada Coleman worked in London at the Savoy Hotel's American Bar, one of the first European establishments to feature American-style drinks.
Mark Twain stopped in for drinks. So did heads of state. And a celebrated Victorian stage actor at the time named Sir Charles Hawtrey.
Sir Charles was a fan of Coley, as Coleman was called. One day he asked her to make him a drink with a bit of punch in it. She experimented with various ingredients and proportions of cognac and vermouth. The next time he came to the bar, Coley gave it to him to try.
He is reported to have drained the glass before exclaiming, "By Jove! That is the real hanky-panky!" The drink has worn the name ever since.
Classic cocktails and the lore surrounding them will be celebrated – and imbibed – from 8 p.m. to midnight Sunday when Tampa's Left Coast Bar Guild hosts its Repeal Day Party at the Don Vicente de Ybor Historic Inn in Ybor City.
The event marks the Dec. 5, 1933, repeal of Prohibition with drinks which span more than 100 years of bartending.
Ten of the rooms of the historic hotel will feature drinks on a theme. Five different bars will feature libations that range from pre-Prohibition era cocktails in the basement to rum drinks from the Caribbean.
Bob Wagner, bartender at Ciro's Speakeasy and Supper Club in Tampa, will serve in the Victorian punch room, where six punches will be made. One of the concoctions, a flaming milk punch, will be mixed as a violinist plays a piece by German composer Richard Wagner.
In another room, a company named Art in the Age will pour 100-year-old cocktail recipes using Root Snap Rhuby, a precursor to root beer not made since 1771. In that room, a performer will be playing moonshiner songs.
Burlesque performers will mingle with partygoers and perform a show. Live jazz from the '20s will be played. There will even be a bartender pouring champagne cocktails in the elevators between floors.
"We'll be using every square inch of the space," said Dean Hurst, bartender at SideBern's in Tampa and president of the roughly 40-member Left Coast Bartender's Guild.
"What we've created, without really even trying to, is a history lesson," Hurst says.
In a Bacardi-sponsored room, drinks that emerged around the Cuban Missile Crisis of the early 1960s will be featured. A few doors down, Russian Standard vodka will represent World War II, when U.S. servicemen fought next to the Russians and discovered vodka.
Tampa-based Cigar City Brewing will debut a pre-Prohibition style pilsner similar to styles made at the time with corn in the mash and with a potent 6.5 percent alcohol content.
"I was calling it cereal milk for adults," Hurst said. "It reminded me of leftover Rice Krispies and how I loved the way the milk smelled. It came out exactly like that."
The Prohibition party theme started at the party's first incarnation last December, when the newly formed bartenders guild hastily put together a party in the Don Vicente's basement. At the turn of the 20th century, the building housed one of the city's few health care clinics and the basement was a morgue.
That first party attracted about 120 people, most of whom dressed in 20s era costumes.
This year's event, expected to be one of the largest Repeal Day parties in the country, may draw as many as 400. To promote the party, guild members marched with an empty casket and a funeral band along Seventh Avenue in Ybor City during October, the start of the National Prohibition Act, known informally as the Volstead Act.
Chris McMillian, one of New Orleans' most iconic barmen, will be attending Sunday's event with his wife Laura. The couple helped found the Museum of the American Cocktail. A portion of the party's proceeds will benefit the museum.
"They're really anxious to see all we're doing down here," Hurst said.
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Bijou Cocktail
1 ounce Green Chartreuse
1 ounce Plymouth Gin
1 ounce Italian Vermouth
1 dash Orange Bitters
Add shaved ice, stir, strain into a cocktail glass, garnish with a cherry, lemon twist.
Buck and Breck
Fill small bar glass (rocks) with water, throw out
Fill it with sugar, throw out, leaving inside frosted
1 ½ ounce Cognac
1 dash of Absinthe
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
Fill with cold champagne
Hanky Panky
1 ½ ounce Dry Gin
1 ½ ounce Italian Vermouth
2 dashes Fernet Branca
Mix over ice, stir, strain into a cocktail glass, garnish with a orange peel.
Blue Moon
1 ½ ounce Gin
1/2 ounce Crème de Violette
½ ounce Lemon Juice
Shake with ice, strain into cocktail glass, garnish with lemon twist.
Trilby Cocktail
2 dashes Absinthe
2 or 3 dashes Orange Bitters
2 or 3 dashes Parfait d'Amour
1 ½ ounce Scotch Whiskey
1 ½ ounce Italian Vermouth
Stir with shaved ice, strain into cocktail glass, garnish cherry, lemon twist.
Rose Cocktail
2 ounce French Vermouth
½ ounce Kirschwasser
½ ounce Groseille or Homemade Grenadine
Shake with ice, strain into cocktail glass, garnish with cherry.
To fully appreciate the cocktail's charm, it helps to know the story behind the drink.
In the early 1900s, a bartender named Ada Coleman worked in London at the Savoy Hotel's American Bar, one of the first European establishments to feature American-style drinks.
Mark Twain stopped in for drinks. So did heads of state. And a celebrated Victorian stage actor at the time named Sir Charles Hawtrey.
Sir Charles was a fan of Coley, as Coleman was called. One day he asked her to make him a drink with a bit of punch in it. She experimented with various ingredients and proportions of cognac and vermouth. The next time he came to the bar, Coley gave it to him to try.
He is reported to have drained the glass before exclaiming, "By Jove! That is the real hanky-panky!" The drink has worn the name ever since.
Classic cocktails and the lore surrounding them will be celebrated – and imbibed – from 8 p.m. to midnight Sunday when Tampa's Left Coast Bar Guild hosts its Repeal Day Party at the Don Vicente de Ybor Historic Inn in Ybor City.
The event marks the Dec. 5, 1933, repeal of Prohibition with drinks which span more than 100 years of bartending.
Ten of the rooms of the historic hotel will feature drinks on a theme. Five different bars will feature libations that range from pre-Prohibition era cocktails in the basement to rum drinks from the Caribbean.
Bob Wagner, bartender at Ciro's Speakeasy and Supper Club in Tampa, will serve in the Victorian punch room, where six punches will be made. One of the concoctions, a flaming milk punch, will be mixed as a violinist plays a piece by German composer Richard Wagner.
In another room, a company named Art in the Age will pour 100-year-old cocktail recipes using Root Snap Rhuby, a precursor to root beer not made since 1771. In that room, a performer will be playing moonshiner songs.
Burlesque performers will mingle with partygoers and perform a show. Live jazz from the '20s will be played. There will even be a bartender pouring champagne cocktails in the elevators between floors.
"We'll be using every square inch of the space," said Dean Hurst, bartender at SideBern's in Tampa and president of the roughly 40-member Left Coast Bartender's Guild.
"What we've created, without really even trying to, is a history lesson," Hurst says.
In a Bacardi-sponsored room, drinks that emerged around the Cuban Missile Crisis of the early 1960s will be featured. A few doors down, Russian Standard vodka will represent World War II, when U.S. servicemen fought next to the Russians and discovered vodka.
Tampa-based Cigar City Brewing will debut a pre-Prohibition style pilsner similar to styles made at the time with corn in the mash and with a potent 6.5 percent alcohol content.
"I was calling it cereal milk for adults," Hurst said. "It reminded me of leftover Rice Krispies and how I loved the way the milk smelled. It came out exactly like that."
The Prohibition party theme started at the party's first incarnation last December, when the newly formed bartenders guild hastily put together a party in the Don Vicente's basement. At the turn of the 20th century, the building housed one of the city's few health care clinics and the basement was a morgue.
That first party attracted about 120 people, most of whom dressed in 20s era costumes.
This year's event, expected to be one of the largest Repeal Day parties in the country, may draw as many as 400. To promote the party, guild members marched with an empty casket and a funeral band along Seventh Avenue in Ybor City during October, the start of the National Prohibition Act, known informally as the Volstead Act.
Chris McMillian, one of New Orleans' most iconic barmen, will be attending Sunday's event with his wife Laura. The couple helped found the Museum of the American Cocktail. A portion of the party's proceeds will benefit the museum.
"They're really anxious to see all we're doing down here," Hurst said.
* * * *
Bijou Cocktail
1 ounce Green Chartreuse
1 ounce Plymouth Gin
1 ounce Italian Vermouth
1 dash Orange Bitters
Add shaved ice, stir, strain into a cocktail glass, garnish with a cherry, lemon twist.
Buck and Breck
Fill small bar glass (rocks) with water, throw out
Fill it with sugar, throw out, leaving inside frosted
1 ½ ounce Cognac
1 dash of Absinthe
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
Fill with cold champagne
Hanky Panky
1 ½ ounce Dry Gin
1 ½ ounce Italian Vermouth
2 dashes Fernet Branca
Mix over ice, stir, strain into a cocktail glass, garnish with a orange peel.
Blue Moon
1 ½ ounce Gin
1/2 ounce Crème de Violette
½ ounce Lemon Juice
Shake with ice, strain into cocktail glass, garnish with lemon twist.
Trilby Cocktail
2 dashes Absinthe
2 or 3 dashes Orange Bitters
2 or 3 dashes Parfait d'Amour
1 ½ ounce Scotch Whiskey
1 ½ ounce Italian Vermouth
Stir with shaved ice, strain into cocktail glass, garnish cherry, lemon twist.
Rose Cocktail
2 ounce French Vermouth
½ ounce Kirschwasser
½ ounce Groseille or Homemade Grenadine
Shake with ice, strain into cocktail glass, garnish with cherry.
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