Libation Legacy🍸
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Cocktail and cultural history blogger at http://libationlegacy.wordpress.com
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Contributor to the Oxford Guide to Spirits & Cocktails
Also, Python/Spark/SQL data analysis and ETL.
CompactDisc sales on Discogs https://www.discogs.com/seller/DougInDC
Contributor to the Oxford Guide to Spirits & Cocktails
Also, Python/Spark/SQL data analysis and ETL.
Happy chicken day
November 28, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Happy chicken day
It came out nice
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 AM
It came out nice
What is this that stands before me?
Figure in black which points at me.
Figure in black which points at me.
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 AM
What is this that stands before me?
Figure in black which points at me.
Figure in black which points at me.
Hairier now than I once was.
November 19, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Hairier now than I once was.
Here's the Prospect Park boarding house that Patrick Gavin Duffy owned, and where he lived with his family, when he published The Official Mixer's Manual in 1933. They still lived there when this photo was taken in 1940.
November 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Here's the Prospect Park boarding house that Patrick Gavin Duffy owned, and where he lived with his family, when he published The Official Mixer's Manual in 1933. They still lived there when this photo was taken in 1940.
Here's one of my favorites from this collection, their photo of The Famous Door, with Ella Fitzgerald on the bill.
November 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Here's one of my favorites from this collection, their photo of The Famous Door, with Ella Fitzgerald on the bill.
If you see this, post a byrd.
November 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you see this, post a byrd.
November 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it
November 9, 2025 at 12:05 AM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it
Ladies and germs, the Lost World:
1 oz dry gin
1 oz Maraschino Liqueur
1 oz Izarra Verte
0.75 oz Lime Juice (fresh)
Shake on ice and strain
1 oz dry gin
1 oz Maraschino Liqueur
1 oz Izarra Verte
0.75 oz Lime Juice (fresh)
Shake on ice and strain
October 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Ladies and germs, the Lost World:
1 oz dry gin
1 oz Maraschino Liqueur
1 oz Izarra Verte
0.75 oz Lime Juice (fresh)
Shake on ice and strain
1 oz dry gin
1 oz Maraschino Liqueur
1 oz Izarra Verte
0.75 oz Lime Juice (fresh)
Shake on ice and strain
AWS is down, post hog
October 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
AWS is down, post hog
The recipe. I used an ounce each of:
Pendelton's Canadian whiskey
Lillet Blanc (not Cocci!)
Marie Brizard Apry (the original)
Dash Ango
Pendelton's Canadian whiskey
Lillet Blanc (not Cocci!)
Marie Brizard Apry (the original)
Dash Ango
October 9, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The recipe. I used an ounce each of:
Pendelton's Canadian whiskey
Lillet Blanc (not Cocci!)
Marie Brizard Apry (the original)
Dash Ango
Pendelton's Canadian whiskey
Lillet Blanc (not Cocci!)
Marie Brizard Apry (the original)
Dash Ango
Just mixed a Nymph Cocktail, from the Cafe Royal Cocktail Book (1937). It was a good one.
October 9, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Just mixed a Nymph Cocktail, from the Cafe Royal Cocktail Book (1937). It was a good one.
Post a fictional comedian who definitely would accept an invitation to the Riyadh Comedy Festival.
October 4, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Post a fictional comedian who definitely would accept an invitation to the Riyadh Comedy Festival.
So excited! My copy just showed up.
September 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
So excited! My copy just showed up.
Here's another one, the Chiberta Cocktail, from Cocktails: Choix de 600 Recettes (1947), by A. Vermeys. Dedicated to Torti of Le Chiberta, a Michelin-starred restaurant off the Champs-Élysées which closed just recently. It's a 2:1 Dry Martini with 2 dashes of Green Izarra. Translation in alt-text.
![CHIBERTA COCKTAIL (Tumbler) [in other words should be stirred]
2/3 Gin; 1/3 Cinzano Dry [Vermouth]; 2 dashes of Green Izarra
For Torti of Chiberta](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v5weixazaj3fzw2g5vqidokb/bafkreidbcilb44zp3spcvicz74qjko6b5q6hytqki2nuphjfc46c53uvhy@jpeg)
September 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Here's another one, the Chiberta Cocktail, from Cocktails: Choix de 600 Recettes (1947), by A. Vermeys. Dedicated to Torti of Le Chiberta, a Michelin-starred restaurant off the Champs-Élysées which closed just recently. It's a 2:1 Dry Martini with 2 dashes of Green Izarra. Translation in alt-text.
I found an example of a woman's coat in Marina Green from 1945, and it does have a shade similar to the drink.
September 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I found an example of a woman's coat in Marina Green from 1945, and it does have a shade similar to the drink.
I wasn't sure where the name came from, there's a Marina Green park in San Francisco, but that wasnt' it. It actually comes from a color for a once-popular color for women's clothing named after Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark. Per the Brechin Advertiser, October 30, 1934.
September 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I wasn't sure where the name came from, there's a Marina Green park in San Francisco, but that wasnt' it. It actually comes from a color for a once-popular color for women's clothing named after Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark. Per the Brechin Advertiser, October 30, 1934.
My take on it used:
1 oz Dry Gin
1 oz Comoz Vermouth de Chambery Blanc
1 oz Green Izarra
Small dash of Absinthe
Stir.
1 oz Dry Gin
1 oz Comoz Vermouth de Chambery Blanc
1 oz Green Izarra
Small dash of Absinthe
Stir.
September 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
My take on it used:
1 oz Dry Gin
1 oz Comoz Vermouth de Chambery Blanc
1 oz Green Izarra
Small dash of Absinthe
Stir.
1 oz Dry Gin
1 oz Comoz Vermouth de Chambery Blanc
1 oz Green Izarra
Small dash of Absinthe
Stir.
So far this is my favorite recipe for a cocktail using Green Izarra. From UKBG Approved Cocktails (1937). One of a handful of early recipes which call for white vermouth (as opposed to dry vermouth).
September 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
So far this is my favorite recipe for a cocktail using Green Izarra. From UKBG Approved Cocktails (1937). One of a handful of early recipes which call for white vermouth (as opposed to dry vermouth).
So do I! But the woman in the painting does sort of remind me of Jose Ferrer in the 1941 Broadway production of Charley's Aunt.
September 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
So do I! But the woman in the painting does sort of remind me of Jose Ferrer in the 1941 Broadway production of Charley's Aunt.
Well look what just turned up locally! 🍸
August 31, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Well look what just turned up locally! 🍸
This is clearly a job for smoked salmon infused vodka.
August 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM
This is clearly a job for smoked salmon infused vodka.