Lost in the Dry Years: The Pre-Prohibition Cocktails America Forgot to Remember
Before the Volstead Act silenced the American bar in 1920, a generation of skilled bartenders had spent decades refining drinks of genuine elegance and complexity. Thirteen years of enforced abstinence did more than shutter saloons — it severed a living tradition, consigning dozens of sophisticated recipes to the margins of old manuals and fading memory. The craft cocktail revival has rescued some of these classics, but the most interesting ones remain stubbornly overlooked.