Created in 1915 at Harry’s New York Bar in Paris by Harry MacElhone the French 75 is said to have gotten it’s name because they said the drink had as much kick as a 75-millimeter field artillery gun. After making one I can attest, it’s the most potent champagne mixed-drink […]
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Here’s another American Pulps Spotlight where we take a person from the American Pulps community and interview them. We have such an amazing community through social media and we want to give props where props are due. This week it’s Eric Hibbeler who puts a modern twist on his neo-noir […]
True Crime anything is very popular right now, and no medium is more saturated with it than podcasts. Five years ago when Sarah Koenig came out with Serial, it really kickstarted True Crime flood of entertainment. Afterwards, Making a Murderer and The Jinx came into play and now we have […]
It’s not called old for nothing, this is likely one of the earliest North American cocktails with it first being referenced in 1806 (that’s during Thomas Jefferson’s administration. That’s old). Aside from Don Draper, this was one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s favorite drinks, along with the Dirty Martini. Harry Truman […]
Start spreadin’ the news. Here’s some drink recipes named after some of the boroughs of Newww Yooorrrrkkkk. Sorry. Sorry. Three of the five boroughs had some pretty popular drinks back when American’s weren’t allowed to drink and did anyway, but only one of them is still consumed on the regular. […]
Here’s another American Pulps Spotlight where we take a person from the American Pulps community and interview them. We have such an amazing community through social media and we want to give props where props are due. This week it is Skye Barak: Tell us a little bit about yourself. […]
This is a recipe from the book Contraband Cocktails by Paul Dickson. I’m going to try to get through all of these and write about them eventually. In order to do so I need to get my hand on some absinthe which is not cheap. When we set up a […]
This is our very first American Pulps Spotlight where we interview a person from the American Pulps community. We have such an amazing community through social media and we want to give props where props are due. This week it’s Stu Hepcat: Tell us about yourself: I’m a tattoo artist […]
….if you like our shit. We will be updating this as we go: Men’s Pulp Mags – Robert Deis aka Subtropic Bob With a lot of the pictures we post people ask us all the time, ‘where can I get this?’ Who is the artist? Etc, etc. Well the answer is usually you can […]
The Volstead Act January 17, 1920 that was the day the Volstead Act (the 18th Amendment) went into effect. Like ObamaCare, that wasn’t the official name of the National Prohibition Act. It was nicknamed after Andrew Volstead a Congressman from Minnesota who introduced the bill. I’m going through a few […]