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The hotel has gained notoriety for its Sourtoe cocktail. The Sourtoe cocktail began during Prohibition with a case of frostbite. In the 1920s, two outlaw brothers, Louie and Otto, were caught in a blizzard. Louie soaked his foot, and when the brothers got back to their cabin, Louie's foot was frostbitten with his right toe becoming gangrenous.
The toe was preserved in alcohol and forgotten until its rediscovery by Captain Dick Stevenson in 1973 who devised a Sourtoe Cocktail Club whose members had imbibed a cocktail containing the toe. The toe was used in the 'Sourtoe cocktail' at the Downtown Hotel in Dawson City, Yukon. [97] At some point, the original toe was replaced.
[2] [1] In the modern day, bartenders can find a plethora of recipes, the drink's history, who is known for drinking it, and other details, helping spur the cocktail renaissance. [2] The book serves as a historical document – it featured popular new recipes in each edition, making each book represent what the public was drinking at the time. [1]
Managers at the Downtown Hotel bar are livid after they claim their iconic severed human toe was ripped from beneath their feet.
The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks is a book about cocktails by David A. Embury, first published in 1948. [1] The book is noteworthy for its witty, highly opinionated and conversational tone, [2] as well as its categorization of cocktails into two main types: aromatic and sour; its categorization of ingredients into three categories: the base, modifying agents, and special flavorings and coloring ...
The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails (OCSC) is a book in the series of Oxford Companions published by Oxford University Press.The book provides an alphabetically arranged reference to spirits, cocktails and other elements of the bar industry, compiled and edited by David Wondrich and Noah Rothbaum, with contributions by several writers including Doug Frost, Garrett Oliver and Audrey ...
A cocktail is a mixed drink containing one or more distilled spirits, such as brandy, cognac, gin, rum, tequila, vodka, or sometimes other spirits. Usually one or more non-alcoholic mixers or a fermented alcohols, such as beer or wine , are mixed with the distilled spirits.
The cocktail was introduced to the public in 1974, devised by the importer of Amaretto di Saronno as a simple mix of two parts amaretto liqueur to one part lemon juice. It became a popular cocktail in the 1980s; most bartenders at the time substituted commercial sour mix for the lemon juice. The drink was popular as a one-dimensional easy ...