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World Cocktail Day Messages and Quotes

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[onezenmom]

Don't take life too seriously ... No one gets out alive. 🐙🍸 Did you know tomorrow is World Cocktail Day? Did you know there WAS a World Cocktail Day? I love calendars that show me all the crazy things we've chosen to recognize nationally and internationally. What's your favorite "Day of "? ​​​​​​​​​#WorldCocktailDay #NoOneGetsOutAlive #Zenimals #ZentangleOctopus #OctopusDoodle #Octopus #OctopusMartini #Octail #ZendoodleOctopus #ZentangleAnimals #Zentangle #ZenDoodle #Zendala #DoodleQuotes #ArtQuotes #ZentangleDoodle #ZenDoodles #QuoteDoodles #ZensDoodles ☯️ via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CsJUxKPOapY/

[alliterative-endlessknot]

It’s #WorldCocktailDay! So what better time to pour yourself a drink and settle in to learn all about the history of the cocktail, and some of the fascinating connections of some iconic drinks, with our Cocktail playlist!

[jamieroxxartist]

#OneBourbonOneScotchOneBeer – #GeorgeThorogood #WorldCocktailDay!

[rodspurethoughts]

Raise your glasses and cheers on World Cocktail Day! 🍹🌍 Let’s celebrate this delightful occasion by mixing up some amazing cocktails and toasting to the art of mixology. Cheers to creativity and good times! #WorldCocktailDay #Cheers https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRwnuC1o/

[maximumwobblerbanditdonut]

Happy World Cocktail Day! 🍸

May 13th falls on the weekend, so enjoy, your next task is to choose a cocktail for today.

World Cocktail Day marks the date of 13th May 1806 when a New York weekly journal called ‘The Balance and Columbian Repository’ gave the first printed definition of a cocktail. It was a political journal, arguing for a stronger federal government, and just happened to incidentally give a printed definition of a cocktail:

“Cock tail, then is a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water and bitters…”

To be clear, this was not the first mention of “cocktail” in reference to a beverage, but, it was the first mention that gave a definition that fits the modern conception of a cocktail.

#CocktailDay #WorldCocktailDay

[rabbitcruiser]

World Cocktail Day 

Host or attend a cocktail party and try out some new flavors, or perfect your hand at mixing any number of drinks, from a White Russian to a classic Cosmo.

“No party is complete without cocktails! My friends all have different tastes when it comes to their drink of choice, so I like to maintain a well-stocked bar with different kinds of alcohol to keep everyone happy.” ~Khloe Kardashian

One of the best ways people get together and bond over life is through drinking. For a fun night out, cocktails provide a wide arrangement of scents and flavors to keep everything exciting and have a long history of becoming a steady staple in people’s lives. So, let us dive right in and see what World Cocktail Day is all about.

History of World Cocktail Day

In 1806, The Balance and Columbian Repository coined the term “cocktail” as a stimulating liquor with a wide variety of sweets, waters, and bitters. Originally, the Oxford English Dictionary defined the term with a different set of connotations, describing it as a horse with a tail like a cock’s, with its tail cocked up instead of hung down.

Cocktails as a drink, however, started as a British invention in the 19th century and has since become an American innovation when a Connecticut-born bartender Jerry Thomas wrote the book “The Bartender’s Guide.” The Bartender’s Guide basically broadcasted an encyclopedia of how to mix drinks and recipes on some of the best combinations of drinks and flavors.

During the 1920s American prohibition, many cocktails were mixed into existence that remain firm favorites today. With not much high-quality alcohol available, cocktails were the perfect way to make that smuggled rum, gin or whiskey just a little bit more drinkable. Enter the cocktail; rum mojitos, the Sidecar, and the Tom Collins all flourished at a time when recreational alcohol wasn’t legal.

The ‘Bee’s Knees’ cocktail was actually created to mask and sweeten the taste of illegally brewed bathtub gin. The roaring twenties took the cocktail and shook it up into some of our most popular modern-day cocktails. Drinking didn’t stop during the prohibition, people simply went underground. Many illegal speakeasies popped up, serving cocktails in jazz-style locales.

Post-prohibition saw the invention of drinks that still grace the pages of your favorite cocktail bar menus. 1954 saw the mixing of the Pina Colada in Puerto Rico when Ramon Marrero created the delicious pineapple treat at the Caribe Hilton hotel. 1988 saw the much-loved Cosmopolitan enter our lives, thanks to Toby Cecchini and his desire to share a drink with his fellow bartenders in San Francisco.

A constant throughout the cocktail era in America was the Rainbow Room. Opened after the prohibition in 1934, the Rainbow Room was a high-end club where New York A-listers could celebrate in style with post-prohibition cocktails. The Rainbow Room was revived and renovated in different forms over the years, being closed during WWII and for various restorations.

The 1987 reopening saw emerging mixologist Dale DeGroff create a pre-prohibition list of cocktails that revived some firm favorites and spearheaded the modern cocktail mixing revolution that made the cocktail bar increasingly popular.

The holiday itself is held annually by Drinkaware, a United Kingdom-based charity that brings awareness to the effects of drinking and aims to reduce the harm that drinking can have on people and families. The website provides facts and information about drinking, alcohol poisoning, and alcohol abuse. The World Cocktail Day page that Drinkaware hosts have events all over the world that you can partake in, a blog you can follow about your favorite recipes, and how you can drink safely while also having fun.

How to Celebrate World Cocktail Day

If you’re up for a night of fun drinking, then host a party at your place and mix up some of your favorite drinks for your friends. If you want to spice things up, check out a new recipe on some of your favorite blogs or newsletters, and make your kitchen or bar into an experiment place for you and your friends.

If you’re feeling confident, you could create your own home bar and serve some of your favorite fizz-fuelled cocktails, or make your own cocktail creations with a fresh twist. Give your bar a theme and add your own unique names to your new mixers. Treat yourself to a cocktail bible and teach yourself how to make the perfect passionfruit martini or rope in your own bartender friend for some mixology advice.

If you are creating your own home bar and are jumping in as a novice bartender, you could start with a classy cosmopolitan or cheeky sex on the beach. Why not take a theme to a whole new level and take your new bar theme to a party level. Whether you’re making a sneaky speakeasy or a chic cocktail bar, making it your own is the perfect way to celebrate World Cocktail Day.

You could even avoid doing the work yourself and enroll in a cocktail class for you and your friends. Learn from the best shakers and master mixologists. Don’t want to leave the house? Why not use an online video or order a beginner’s pack right to your door. Or splash out on an inhouse mixing masterclass (calling all bartender friends again).

You might be more of a cocktail connoisseur than a master mixologist. Why not get some of the good stuff mixed for you, so you can sample some delightful cocktails without having to actually make them yourself. Put on a cocktail-themed film, sip your mojito and feel like you’re in the summer sun.

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[nobertsales]

Happy World Cocktail Day! One of the earliest uses of the word "cocktail" in the way that we think of it now (as a mixed drink) was in the American periodical Balance and Columbian Repository in 1806. In response to a reader's question, the editor explained that a cocktail "is a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water and bitters." That's a definition that still works today. In fact, the editor just described a drink we would now call an old-fashioned, which could be considered the first cocktail. Others argue that the first cocktail (or at least, the first one with a name) is the Sazerac, which was developed in New Orleans in 1838 by an apothecary named Antoine Peychaud. It originally consisted of a cognac called Sazerac, a sugar cube, bitters and a dash of absinthe. Nowadays, it's made with whiskey and the other ingredients. Sometimes a second type of bitters is substituted for the absinthe.  #WorldCocktailDay #Cocktail cocktail 🍹 🌎 #FoodService #FoodServiceSolutions #FoodSales #NonFoodSolutions #DisposableSolutions #FoodConsultant #Food #WeKnowFood #FoodOfTheDay #DrinkOfTheDay #NobertSales @NobertSales (at Germantown, Tennessee) https://www.instagram.com/p/CO0QIE1llXl/?igshid=1nhhugpywjx69

[outlander-sam-heughan-dona-salin]

From Sam 💖 "Happy World Cocktail day!" "After extensive “research” this evening... ahem I chose “The Sassenach Old Pal” to celebrate with. Created by fellow Scot and spirits legend Harry MacElhone in the 1920s in Paris, it’s in the same family as the Negroni and Boulevardier, I chose the “Old Pal” as our whisky is sweet and needed the drier vermouth. " #worldcocktailday #dramwithsam 2 parts @sassenachspirits 1 part dry vermouth 1 part Campari Stir and serve SLAINTE!x " Outlanders ✌️ happy Friday 🌷 stay safe🙏 ❤️ DS @samheughan #samheughan #outlander #outlanderseries #jamiefraser #outlanderfans #outlanderstarz #ClanLands https://www.instagram.com/p/CO3LdPkhAGK/?igshid=1rxtde82mdgj9

[glassbasic]

"Tiki Aloha" Wine glass, Champagne Glasses, Cocktail Coup and Highball Drinking Glasses collection by #glassbasic 🔸The drink is Tiki at heart, and the original recipe calls for Bourbon rather than the Blended Scotch, but I find the Bourbon too sweet for this one so swapped it out. Of course, being Tiki, there's Rum too. ◾THE MASTADON: ▪️45ml Monkey Shoulder ▪️45ml El Dorado 12 ▪️15ml Licor 43 ▪️7.5ml Luxardo Maraschino ▪️15ml Lime Juice ▪️22.5ml Passion Fruit Puree ▪️60ml Pineapple Juice ▪️2 Dashes Peychaud's #worldcocktailday #cocktail #cocktails #cocktailsofinstagram #cocktailsathome #cocktailstogo #cocktailhour #cocktailsuk #cocktailgram #drink #drinks #drinkstagram #drinksofinstagram #drinksondrinks #drinksonme #drinksonus #drinksphotography #drinkspecials #drinkspecial #drinkspiration #drinksdrinksdrinks #drinkdrankdrunk #mixology #mixologist #bestcocktails #garnish #garnishgame #tiki #monkeyshoulder . (at Forty One Madison) https://www.instagram.com/p/CO8VkVnr9Ib/?igshid=i46kxoip34dl

[torontocommon]

Look what just arrived in time for the weekend!!! 👀 Our Ultimate Toronto Cocktail Box collaboration with @evelynchick coming soon to torontocommon.com! @bar_raval @dollytrolleydrinks @thecloakbar @barkoukla @projectgigglewater 5 signature cocktails, 2-3 servings each, all in one box curated by award winning mixologist @evelynchick 🙌 Orders close every Monday at 8am so they can prepare and deliver in time for that weekend 🚚 Support 5 local bars with one delivery while enjoying 5 uniquely Toronto cocktails 🥂 #worldcocktailday everyday of the week! 🥳 (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/CO3soV0h1W2/?igshid=12ib445dnyc5o

[jayrellis]

Using quarantine to learn new things... like making cocktails on #WorldCocktailDay. It’s 5 o’clock somewhere, right? Thanks to @greygoose, @patron, and @dewars #ad https://www.instagram.com/p/CAJe6_MA20t/?igshid=r97refge9vjk

[alliterative-endlessknot]

It’s #WorldCocktailDay! So what better time to pour yourself a drink and settle in to learn all about the history of the cocktail, and some of the fascinating connections of some iconic drinks, with our Cocktail playlist!

[jamieroxxartist]

Today, May 13, 2024, is #WorldCocktailDay!

( www.daysoftheyear.com/days/world-cocktail-day )

👉 * A couple pics that caught me out and about with a cocktail or two.

a #Painting I painted a few years ago:

’Martini Time’

2005 acrylic & oil blend on canvas 24"x18" by @ArtistJamieRoxx #JamieRoxx ( www.JamieRoxx.us ) This Sold Painting is Not Available

[firewaterxo]

Hey guys! How's it going?🙂. . It's whisky Wednesday, but it's also world cocktail day! So I tried to cover both today with a tasty rye whiskey cocktail 😉. . So this is called a Blinker. This is a Prohibition-era spicy three-ingredient cocktail consisting of rye whiskey, pink grapefruit juice, and raspberry syrup. According to Tuxedo No. 2, the blinker "resides in the same neighborhood as offbeat classics like the Japanese, Seelbach, and between the sheets: recipes that don't really make sense on paper". . Here is the recipe: . 60ml rye whiskey 30ml grapefruit juice 7.5ml raspberry syrup . Add all ingredients into a shaker and shake with ice then strain into a chilled cocktail glass. . This is a very tasty, fresh and spicy cocktail 👌🏻. . How are you guys celebrating? 😊. . Cheers guys and happy whisky Wednesday and World Cocktail Day! 🥃🍹🍸✌🏻️. . #sazeracrye #babysaz #whisky #blinker #blinkercocktail #worldcocktailday #firewaterxo #scotchwhisky #whiskyporn #whiskygram #whiskey #ryewhiskey #whiskybar #bottle #drinks #scotland #wednesday #whiskywednesday #spring ##summeriscoming #cocktailparty #cocktailporn #whiskyparty #cheers #romania #cocktailsofinstagram #cocktailathome #mixology #bartender (at Cluj-Napoca) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAIm6wZHb2x/?igshid=lwrdzvqn6w3n

[walkingpalates]

Today is World Cocktail Day! Here's the Americano. 

 Despite its name, this is an Italian cocktail that uses only Italian ingredients: Campari, red Vermouth and seltz. 

 This is an IBA official cocktail and is usually garnished with half an orange slice.

  #Tips: best before dinner, Aperitivo time!