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The pair discussed the history of the American cocktail and how major U.S. events helped to shape the cocktails of today. Alcoholic beverages date back to 13,000 BCE, when the first evidence of brewing beer was documented. By 1806, the word “cocktail” appeared in print. and abroad was around 1914.
Although the term first appeared in print in 1798, it wasnt until 1806 that cocktail shared the definition it bears today. As The Balance and Columbian Repository of Hudson, New York put it , a cocktail is a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters it is vulgarly called bittered sling.
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