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Black Liver Project
@blackliverproject.bsky.social
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Not just history of cocktails, but history through cocktails
Podcast: http://monsterinaglass.podomatic.com
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Another New Orleans #cocktail #Reanimator #RamosGinFizz where @libation-legacy.bsky.social discusses Henry Ramos creating a name for himself in Baton Rouge and solidifying his hold in cocktail #history with a drink that doubles as performance.
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Ep 35 – Ramos Gin Fizz
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November 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
blackliverproject.bsky.social
Huey Long, the Kingfish, of Louisiana claimed his grandfather taught Ramos how to make the Ramos Gin Fizz. It is said that Long brought the recipe to New York which helped popularize it nationally
November 1, 2025 at 2:32 AM
blackliverproject.bsky.social
At the height of its popularity, bars that made the Ramos Gin Fizz hired many shaker boys to shake the cocktail for 5 minutes plus.
#BlackLiverProject #MonsterInAGlass #cocktail #history
October 31, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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After Prohibition, the Ramos Gin Fizz recipe was sold to the Roosevelt Hotel
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October 30, 2025 at 1:49 AM
blackliverproject.bsky.social
Henry Ramos, for which the Ramos Gin Fizz is named, was German, not Spanish or Portuguese
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October 29, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Earliest appearance of a standard Gin Fizz in a recipe book we found in Harry Johnson 1882. First reference to a Gin Fizz in anything was in 1878 in Washington DC's Evening Star
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October 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Here is the original #RamosGinFizz episode, another dramatic New Orleans #history for a truly dramatic #cocktail
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Episode 35: Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On – Ramos Gin Fizz
Telling stories and history through the cocktails that defined the times.
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October 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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This is the Pumpkin Supreme Latte, a new seasonal drink at @prequel_cafe . This is so good I don't want to stop having the flavor in my mouth.
#BlackLiverProject #ILoveMyAlteredStates #CoffeeSpecials #CoffeeIsSpecial #Chicago
September 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Myself and @libation-legacy.bsky.social discuss how the #Vesper is one instance when art made a drink. First in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel Casino Royale it survived to grace craft #cocktail menus during the cocktail revival
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Ep 34 – Vesper Reanimated
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September 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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The #Vesper #cocktail first makes an appearance in Ian Fleming's Casino Royale novel that was the first to feature British spy James Bond
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#BlackLiverProject #MonsterInAGlass #history
September 17, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Here is the original #MonsterInAGlass #Vesper episode with a lot on Casino Royale and author Ian Fleming
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Episode 34: Licensed to Swill – Vesper
Telling stories and history through the cocktails that defined the times.
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September 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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In this #MiaG #Reanimator #CorpseReviver @libation-legacy.bsky.social says it was a pick-me-up kind of #cocktail not just a party rejuvenator as discussed originally. Also a deeper dive into Lillet and why it tastes like new car smell
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Ep 33 – Corpse Reviver Reanimated
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September 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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In the old #CorpseReviver episode of #MonsterInAGlass we learn that the #cocktail is not the name of a drink but a type of drink. Also the 19th century progressive movement that feared being buried alive
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Episode 33: Raising the Dead – Corpse Revivers
Putting the word “corpse” in anything you are going to consume is probably a mistake, but Corpse Revivers seem to have weathered any associations with dead stuff. When you look at the name closely you...
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September 2, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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At @nettarechi having a Maple Vanilla London Fog. This looks like a fuckin piece of art. And it tastes like one...OMG.
#BlackLiverProject #ILoveMyAlteredStates #CoffeeSpecials #CoffeeIsSpecial #Chicago
August 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Lime, basil, peach syrup and a cayenne kick. This drink is so good; all of the flavors are welcome even when 3 of the 5 I usually prefer to pass on. This is my favorite matcha ever and it can be found at @nettarechi
#BlackLiverProject #CoffeeSpecials #Chicago
August 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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This episode of #MiaG #Reanimator we explore the #Cosmopolitan, the 1st story with living players. Who is the personality behind this drink? @libation-legacy.bsky.social says it's a convergence; #BlackLiverProject says the stakes are high so competition is fierce
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Ep 32 - Cosmopolitan Reanimated
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August 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Here is the original #MonsterInAGlass episode featuring the #Cosmopolitan #cocktail where we find the first reference to it in the OED of all places.
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Episode 32: A Touch of Class – Cosmopolitan
If you asked the average person to name a cocktail, The Cosmopolitan would probably be on the short list. If you asked the average person what was in it, you might not get past vodka in a martini glas...
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August 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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libation-legacy.bsky.social
On March 24, 1949, Ray Hewitt's LA Daily News column, "The Spotlighter" first mentions the Dresden Room serving the Blood and Sand. He claims that the restaurant's owner, Herman Byrens, brought the recipe back from Singapore.

#cheers 🍸
A famed European chef who prepares those especially tempting dishes, a delightful hospitable atmosphere and unbelievable but true...dinners only $1.65 all add up to the DRESDEN ROOM, 1760 N. Vermont. Your host HERMAN BYRENS, brought back from Singapore the recipe for the world's most delicious drink, "Blood and Sand." PHILLIP MOODY, star of radio and television opens at the Dresden Room this week.
August 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Ferraro kept the Blood & Sand on the menu as the Dresden's signature drink, in fact, it is still on their menu. He hired Ray Buhen, one of Don the Beachcomber's original team, to head his bar. There are claims that Buhen invented a "Blood & Sand" for Tyrone Power, who starred in the 1941 remake.
August 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Carl Ferraro bought the Dresden in 1954, and changed its name to the Dresden Restaurant. Some interesting details in his obit. Los Angeles Times, February 7, 2005.

Also note that "Anchorman" (2004) also had a scene filmed at the Dresden.
Carl Ferraro, who for more than 50 years owned the Dresden Restaurant in Los Feliz, a neighborhood fixture that has been used as a location for a number of popular Hollywood films, has died. He was 91. Ferrro died Jan. 20 at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank. The cause was congestive heart failure, according to his son, James. Ferraro bought the Dresden in 1954 and kept the name, even though it referred to the china dolls that were part of the previous owner's decor. He remodeled it in 1963, adding white Leatherette booths, Venetian chandeliers and a wood-beam ceiling. In recent years the restaurant has earned a reputation as an example of a vintage interior in mint condition. It has been used in the films "What Women Want" (2000), with Mel Gibson, and "The Two Jakes" (1990), with Jack Nicholson. Nothing, however, had more of an impact on Ferraro's business than "Swingers" (1996). In it, two aspiring actors, played by John Favreau and Vince Vaughn, often meet at the Dresdent to commiserate over cocktails.
August 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
blackliverproject.bsky.social
The cafe creations at @nettarechi are coming quicker than I can sample them. A bunch of new specials on the menu including this one: Horchata Dirty Chai, a horchata with espresso and tres leches foam. Now I understand that all this time horchata was missing espresso.
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August 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Our latest #Reanimator episode. #BloodAndSand more well traveled than I ever imagined
libation-legacy.bsky.social Libation Legacy🍸 @libation-legacy.bsky.social · Aug 5
We found the Blood and Sand Cocktail took a journey around the world, travelling from London to Singapore, then finding fame in Hollywood. Along the way, it transformed from a meh concoction to a delicious Tiki sip. Its secret turned up quite by accident in a thrifter's Reddit post.

#cheers 🍸
blackliverproject.bsky.social Black Liver Project @blackliverproject.bsky.social · Aug 4
In this #MonsterInAGlass #Reanimator @libation-legacy.bsky.social traces the path of the #BloodAndSand from Hollywood boutique #cocktail in London to a tiki classic out of Singapore...and you can find the strangest things on Reddit these days.
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August 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
blackliverproject.bsky.social
In this #MonsterInAGlass #Reanimator @libation-legacy.bsky.social traces the path of the #BloodAndSand from Hollywood boutique #cocktail in London to a tiki classic out of Singapore...and you can find the strangest things on Reddit these days.
player.captivate.fm/episode/7e87...
#BlackLiverProject
Ep 31 – Blood and Sand Reanimated
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August 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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The original #MonsterInAGlass #BloodAndSand ep wherein we go deep into the life and times of Rudolph Valentino...and there's a #cocktail too
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Episode 31: By the Horns – Blood and Sand
You say Blood and Sand and it generates images of a switchblade fight on a beach. The consensus though is that this cocktail is named for the 1922 bullfighting movie starring silent-movie era heartthr...
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August 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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The earliest reference to the Rusty Nail cocktail that I could find actually referred to it as the Knucklehead. From Charles F. Danver's long-running column "Pittsburghesque" in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, dated January 25, 1960.
Well, Here's How Night cub and hotel bartenders report a sudden demand for a drink called the "Knucklehead," popular in other parts of the country but slow to catch on here. It's made with one jolt of Drambuie and one of Scotch on the rocks (ice). According to the Dictionary of American Slang, a knucklehead is "a slow-thinking or stupid person." (The word came into popular usage in the Marine Corps and Navy in 1944.) I don't get the connection, either. You'd think they could just as well have called it a "Columnist."
August 1, 2025 at 5:53 PM