For its part, Templeton Rye has created a viewing-party guide, complete with cocktail recipes, entertainment suggestions and costume advice based on the flapper fashions and dandy-ish male attire of the era. The guide is available through the blog section of the whiskey's website.
Both products can claim an important connection to the era. Canadian whisky became an American favorite during Prohibition because of the ease of smuggling it from our neighbors to the north, who were still legally allowed to make whisky.
Contraband shipments began almost as soon as the Volstead Act was passed to enforce Prohibition. Canadian whisky enjoyed a quality gap over American product even after Prohibition ended, as it took our domestic producers years to mature spirits that could compete with Canada's. Canadian Club is said to have been a favorite of bootlegger Al Capone, who plays a minor part in the television show. The distillery operated just across the border from Detroit in Windsor, Ontario, and it's estimated that some 20, cases of Canadian Club were smuggled into the United States during the era that lasted from to You can read more about this in my Wine Spectator piece on Canadian whisky.
Templeton Rye is a craft distilled American straight rye whiskey created in The company says, however, that its recipe is based on one used in its home of Templeton, Iowa, when illicit whiskey was made there during Prohibition. The company also claims that the recipe was a favorite of Capone's. Apparently, he was a well-rounded drinking man.
To celebrate the return of the fourth series of the hit HBO show, heritage clothing brand Original Penguin has produced three extra-special cocktails for people to enjoy in moderation as they watch the latest series. Utilising popular spirits and flavour combinations of the time, each one is designed to transport those who enjoy them to the world of Nucky Thompson, Chalky White and Al Capone — without the excessive violence, of course.
Many of the team here love Boardwalk Empire, as well as the opportunity to try a new and exciting cocktail, so the opportunity to make our own ahead of the fourth series was too good to miss. If you do, please come back and let us know what you think. A long-time marketing professional and photographer, Pops hopes to use his professional experience and love of Bourbon to spread the Bourbon Gospel and help everyone realize the therapeutic power of having a good drink with friends.
Naturally, a cocktail was named for them albeit in Paris, not Atlantic City. Dry vermouth, lemon juice and grenadine get mixed with rye for this one. How adorably old-timey. Dubonnet Cocktail: Dubonnet was used to mask the taste of rotgut gin in this drink, says Maxwell Britten of Maison Premiere in Brooklyn. But making it with a quality gin, he points out, results in a suave sipper.
Rye whiskey, which would have been harsh stuff at the time, is masked with lemon juice, orange juice and grenadine. Nowadays, better quality rye has much improved this drink. El Presidente: Americans who could afford to escape the booze ban would have headed for Paris or London… unless they were real party animals, in which case they went to Havana.
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