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The Clover Club was the favorite drink of a men's social club of the same name that met at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia from 1882 onwards. The Clover Club was a gathering of journalists, lawyers and industrialists, and the cocktail, documented in the era's first bar manuals, was their welcome drink at literary dinners.
It disappeared with Prohibition in the 1920s and remained forgotten for almost a century, partly because of its egg white, an ingredient that postwar America dropped for supposed hygiene reasons. It was Julie Reiner who revived it in 2008, when she named her famous Brooklyn bar "Clover Club" after the cocktail, marking its full return to the craft cocktail Olympus.
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