If you want to taste history tonight, I've already prepared the complete shopping list with all the ingredients. Now, the legend.
The Corpse Reviver #2 was codified by Harry Craddock in his iconic 1930 "Savoy Cocktail Book", published during the darkest years of American Prohibition, when the Savoy Hotel in London had become the favorite exile of thirsty U.S. bartenders. The name comes from a 19th-century category of cocktails designed as "hair of the dog" — hangover cures.
Craddock accompanied the recipe with one of the most famous warnings in cocktail history: "Four of these taken in swift succession will unrevive the corpse again." Powerful, floral and dangerously balanced, the Corpse Reviver #2 languished for decades before being rediscovered by the craft cocktail revival of the 2000s, earning its place back on the IBA list as an essential classic.
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