Chapter 382: Cocktails
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Alcohol has been passed in a different way in the ugly country, and it has not been hindered by Prohibition.
People are also gradually getting used to this kind of life, and when you drink, you carry someone on your back, and no one will scold you for being stingy.
And for those who make and transport wine, their brains are also trained on the edge of danger again and again, and each one is bigger than the other.
Mark Twain once said, "It was Prohibition that made anything more precious." ”
The same goes for brain holes, many things that look unbelievable in the future were invented during the Prohibition period, such as hollow cane magic, where you put wine in a hollow cane, and when you want to drink it, you either blow it or pour it out.
The posture is weird, but it doesn't work well, and who would have thought that there was wine in the palm of his hand.
The most common are flasks that are hidden within the size, although the word "jug" may not be the right word to describe these.
To be precise, it should be a "jar" hidden under an "overcoat".
The women also hid their liquor in smaller, more dispersed bottles and hung it from stockings for a look of distinctiveness.
Moonshiners, on the other hand, wore "cowhide shoes" to hide their whereabouts during Prohibition, and their stills were hidden in them.
The birth of all kinds of strange things has also promoted the development of the moonshine industry in disguise.
However, Li Yaoyang knew very well that this sneaky way of drinking would disappear in a few years, and if he wanted to capture this last glory, he had to do something to make Oak Vodka popular in the ugly country as soon as possible.
It shouldn't just be used as a way to protect against the cold, and it shouldn't just be popular in the Yukon.
After a long day in the office, he handed a wad of manuscript paper to the Atlantic City Journal, which made no sense to use since it had its own propaganda channels.
As for the content on the manuscript paper, it is nothing more than a short story of a few cocktails.
For example, the Moscow Mule, which is a vodka-based classic.
If you really want to talk about it, "Moscow mule" has nothing to do with "mule".
If so, it's probably because Smirnoe had a "strong mule" vodka in the 1950s, with a "little mule" bouncing around on the bottle.
The signature "Moscow" is because it contains vodka, a specialty of polar bears.
You can call it "St. Petersburg Mule" or "Vladivostok Mule", and you can't help it.
Many people have seen the movie "Partner", the epitome of entrepreneurship of the generation after the reform and opening up.
About "Moscow Mule", it is a story of "partners of an ugly country".
It is related to the three individuals:
First, in 1941, Miss Sophie, the heir of the Moscow Copper Company, was ready to sell the copper mugs produced by the company to the ugly country, thus opening up the North American market.
Unfortunately, she is not a top student majoring in "marketing", and she is at a loss for new markets;
Second, in the same year, John Martin, the owner of a trading house, had just won the distribution rights of Smirnó vodka in the ugly country, and was ready to make a big profit.
It's just that the people of the ugly country at that time were not as open as they are now, and they were not very receptive to vodka.
The franchise fee was paid, but the cost was not returned, do you say that you are not worried?
Third, Jack Morgan, the owner of a restaurant, has just put into production a production line for ginger beer, ready to create a "craft beer" exclusively for the restaurant.
I thought that "when the bottle cap rings, the gold will be ten thousand taels", but it couldn't be sold, and I was so anxious that my hair fell out.
is the same person who has fallen to the end of the world, why should we have known each other when we meet.
One day, three depressed people, arranged by fate, walked into the door of the same bar.
The so-called "different paths to the same end", people with the same emotional frequency instantly resonated.
The three of them sat together and drank alcohol, complained, and snorted and cried.
As the night deepened, the tears were drying up, and the wine was almost gone.
Just as the three of them were about to get up and go home, Martin suddenly took a break from possession:
Let's just invent a cocktail, put vodka and beer in it, and drink it in a copper cup, won't the problem be solved?!
Sophie and Morgan thought there was a play, and the three of them hurried to Morgan's restaurant, and after such a drum, the "Moscow Mule" was born.
The next day, they returned to the bar where they had been drinking, asked the bartender to mix a glass of "Moscow Mule" according to their request, and asked the bartender to take a group photo with a copper cup, just like an Internet celebrity check-in scene.
Afterwards, they took the photos of the Internet celebrities and went to other bars to "show off" to the customers inside.
People in the 40s have never seen this battle, and they were instantly attracted by the story of the copper cup and the Internet celebrity check-in, and flocked to drink the "same style of Internet celebrity".
Look, people are visual creatures, and there is no shortage of "sheep" who follow the trend in any era.
In less than half a year, the "Moscow Mule" swept the west coast of the ugly country, and the problem of unsalable products was solved.
The following year, in 1942, the "Moscow Mule" became the most popular cocktail in Los Angeles, and it spread around the world.
Li Yaoyang made certain modifications to this story, moving the West Coast to the East Coast, which is much the same, the only problem is ginger beer.
It's not a big problem, brewing beer is much easier than making whisky, and it doesn't take the Albert Distillery to do it on its own.
In order to sell vodka, it is also a good idea to launch a ginger beer.
The recipe is also very simple, according to the recipe of the "Moscow Mule", these cocktails are collectively called "Buck"
So, you can call it "VodkaBuck" as well.
It belongs to a line of cocktails, just as the "Singapore Sling" belongs to the "Sling" series.
Except for ginger beer, which I usually drink less, the others are very familiar.
The sparkling ginger beer, paired with lime juice, is quite refreshing.
"Moscow Mule" uses the "Harmony Method" and is friendly to most novices.
Some bartenders will make some ingenious changes to the "Buck" cocktail.
For example, swap lemon juice for orange juice.
Don't say it, it tastes really good.
The modulation process is divided into five steps:
1. Fill a copper mug with ice cubes;
2. Then add 15ml of fresh lemon juice;
3. Add 45 ml of vodka:
4. Add ginger beer until 9 minutes full;
5. Lift, stir and decorate the rim of the cup, and the "Moscow Mule" is ready.
After the "Moscow Mule" is ready, the most visually striking thing is the one-of-a-kind copper mug.
Because copper conducts heat much better than glass, the smooth brass surface can quickly fog up when mixing with a copper cup.
In the summer, it feels very cool, like drinking a cold beer.
Therefore, the use of pure copper cups when making "Moscow Mules" is a kind of political correctness, and the use of copper-plated cups will be disliked.
However, the price of pure copper cups is expensive, which also sets off the rarity of top-quality vodka.
In fact, this recipe is a universal formula, vodka comes from polar bears, if you want to drink a sip of "Huaxia Mule", you can try to change to "Moutai" or "Wuliangye".
In the same way: with agave, it is "Mexican mule";
With bourbon, it is "Kentucky Mule";
With rum, it's a "tropical mule".
Theoretically, ginger beer is more important than vodka.
But today's drinkers don't understand, they only think it's delicious, and it may be the credit of vodka, and that's enough.
The Moscow mule is just an appetizer, and the main course is the famous one - Bloody Mary.
This wine is so famous that many people who don't drink alcohol have heard of it, but most people don't know that behind this wine, there is an even bloodier story.
In 1516, King Henry VIII of England welcomed his child, Princess Mary, the only surviving of his many children with Queen Catherine.
Little Mary was very precocious, and as a princess she received the best education possible, and Queen Catherine herself taught her Latin, as well as Greek, science, and music.
At the age of five and a half, Mary was able to play the harpsichord in front of the guests of the royal palace, and at the age of nine, Henry VIII gave her the title of Princess of Wales, which has always been a title granted to the crown prince in the British royal family.
Although Henry VIII doted on this daughter, he still struggled with the lack of a male heir, and he tried his best to have a son.
To that end, he launched the Reformation, which was a great reformation in English history.
At the same time, it was also because of this incident that Princess Mary's heart was completely broken.
The wife of Henry VIII and the mother of Princess Mary, was a Spanish princess.
During the reign of Henry VII, in order to consolidate the rule of the country, England and Spain were married.
So Prince Arthur of England was engaged to Catherine, but Prince Arthur died early, and Henry VIII married a widowed sister-in-law.
Henry VIII and Catherine were married for twenty years, but Princess Mary had only one child.
Although Catherine was only in her forties at this time, she was already an advanced age at that time, and European women have always aged relatively quickly, and Catherine, who was no longer charming, could no longer arouse the interest of Henry VIII.
So, the bold king proposed to the Pope for divorce from Catherine and marriage to Anne Boleyn (mother of Elizabeth I).
In order to marry her, he launched the Reformation, abolished Catholicism in England, converted to Anglicanism, and succeeded in driving Queen Catherine out of the palace.
The rift in her parents' marriage left a scar in Mary's heart.
At the same time, her father also used her as a political bargaining chip, and was engaged to the French crown prince and the heir to the Holy Roman Empire, although it was unsuccessful.
Spain is a devout Catholic country, and under her mother's education, Mary was very Catholic.
But with her mother's departure and her father's open opposition to Catholicism and the Holy See, Mary's situation became even more dangerous.
She was declared an illegitimate daughter by Parliament, served her half-sister Elizabeth and brother Edward, and was even forced to renounce her religion as the head of the Church of England.
This series of events has created the character of young Mary, tenacious, brave but inflexible.
After the death of Henry VIII, Edward VI was supposed to succeed him by will, but he died at the age of 16.
According to the regulations, Mary should be the next heir.
However, the Duke of Northumberland and the Privy Council declared Jane Grey, the third in line to the throne.
This is the famous "Queen of the Nine Heavens", nine days later, amid the condemnation of the masses, Jane Grey fell, and Mary ascended to the throne that belonged to her.
As an ardent Catholic, Queen Mary made drastic reforms as soon as she came to power.
She hated Protestantism and acted perversely, rejecting the religious policies of Henry VIII and Edward VI, and attempting to restore England under the control of the Holy See, restore Catholicism, and return to "Christendom" headed by the Pope.
On 5 October 1553, Mary convened the first council, essentially repealing the English Reformation legislation of the time of Edward VI and partially of the time of Henry VIII, laying the foundation stone for paving the road to Rome.
However, since Parliament did not approve the restoration of Catholic orthodoxy, Queen Mary's attempt to restore Catholicism encountered great difficulties in the first-for-tat.
Before that, there was an event that displeased the parliament and the whole country: Queen Mary wanted to marry Fili of Spain.
Fili was the son of Charles V and had the right to the throne within the empire, ruling Spain as a proxy of Charles V at this time.
In fact, from the time Mary Tudor succeeded to the throne as Queen of England, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V began to plot the marriage of Philip and Mary.
A shrewd politician, Charles V regarded Mary as "a queen of great value":
The English Channel is located on the main road from Spain to the Netherlands, and it will take the assistance of England to keep this waterway open.
And Queen Mary, although she is only half Spanish blood, is more Spanish because of the changes in her youth.
The Venetian envoy to London once noted:
Mary flouted her status as an Englishman, flaunting her Spanish origins.
Her innate Spanish affection prompted Mary to fall in love with Fili, who was born in Spain.
However, this marriage caused a riot among the countrymen.
In the course of the Queen's marriage, uprisings broke out in many parts of England, and the rebels penetrated deep into the flagship street of the City of London, where they shouted:
"God save Queen Mary", "Accept our request, don't accept a Spanish husband".
However, all this did not have any real effect on the Queen's marriage, but rather acted as a catalyst to turn things in the direction that the people least wanted to see.
In April 1554, three months after quelling the mass uprising, the queen convened a second council.
As it turned out, the second council was even worse than the first:
Godina's proposal to resurrect heresy and the Six Doctrines was rejected in the House of Commons, and the Counter-Reformation and persecution of Protestants had to wait for another moment.
This made the queen very unhappy, and another thing that made the queen unhappy was:
Mary promised not to marry without the consent of Parliament, but her determination to marry Fili of Spain did not waver.
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