We a Sip the Henny for the Day Baby
"It's hard to have a man's measure unless you know how he takes his booze."
— John Adams (not actually, simply also…not impossible?)
The calendar has turned once once again to that most beloved of American holidays: Presidents Twenty-four hour period, when patriotic children everywhere gather around the burn to hear Grandfather tell the rousing story of how Warren K. Harding fathered a love child with Nan Britton.
To celebrate the occasion, let's take a look dorsum at the most valuable presidential trivia of all: what kind of alcohol these 45 men liked to drink as they led the nation from crisis to crisis.
George Washington
When he wasn't viciously downing ruby-red trees, our get-go president regularly downed dark porter beers laced with molasses. To no ane's surprise, this rotted the teeth right out of his head, only it also gave him the backbone to cantankerous the icy Delaware and crush the Hessian garrison at Trenton.
Washington also pioneered the political strategy of plying the electorate with alcohol. During his 1758 campaign for the House of Burgesses, he bought over 140 gallons of rum to treat Virginia voters to a cocktail called the bombo. Naturally, he won, and American democracy was born.
Bombo
- 2 oz. rum
- ¼ oz. Demerara syrup
- Top with freshly grated nutmeg (or pre-grated nutmeg, no judgment here)
Recipe adapted from Smuggler's Cove by Martin and Rebecca Cate.
James Madison
Forget James Madison — nosotros're here to talk about his wife. Dolley Madison was maybe the coolest person to always reside in the White House. Her parties, or "squeezes," drew up to 500 people of all political persuasions. She served ice cream fifty-fifty though no one had freezers yet. (Her favorite was oyster ice cream, just we're gonna allow that slide.) During the State of war of 1812, as the British closed in on Washington, she went ahead with her plans for a dinner party.
One of her favorite beverages to serve was, in the words of Lord Francis Jeffrey, "little cups of what I took for lemonade — simply constitute to my infinite horror was stiff punch." As best anyone can tell, she was mixing whiskey sours before whiskey sours were fifty-fifty a thing, which means she may well have invented them. Historians remain mystified why she ended upwards marrying the Founding Snoozefest that was James Madison.
Dolley Madison'due south Whiskey Sour
- iv (!) oz bourbon
- one.5 oz fresh lemon juice
- 1 tsp fine sugar
- Shake and serve over water ice while murmuring bawdy jokes nigh Henry and Lucretia Dirt
Recipe adapted from Workman.
William McKinley
Our 25th president liked his rye. During his 1896 presidential campaign, he had a cocktail named after him — McKinley'southward Delight. Voters evidently far preferred it to William Jennings Bryan's Free Silver Fizz, probably because it was much improve.
At some point subsequently the sinking of the USS Maine in 1898, the drink was redubbed Remember the Maine, and the proper noun stuck, even after McKinley'due south assassination in 1901. History is rude that way. But for Presidents Day, we're going dorsum to the OG nomenclature.
McKinley'south Please
- 3 oz rye whiskey (100 proof)
- 1 oz sweet vermouth
- 1 bar spoon of scarlet brandy
- ane dash of absinthe
- Stir and serve in chilled coupe
Recipe adapted from David Wondrich.
Teddy Roosevelt
Considered by many to exist the manliest man to ever sit down in the Oval Office, Roosevelt was big into battle, hiking, jiu-jitsu and shooting elephants. He also liked tennis, only apparently no one in his cabinet would play lawn tennis with him until he fabricated a batch of his famous mint juleps.
Everyone knows a mint julep is made with bourbon. But bourbon is for boys and Teddy was a man, so he made his with rye. And brandy, because why not. "You must e'er remember," British Ambassador Cecil Spring Rice said of Roosevelt, "that the President is well-nigh six."
Mint Julep
- 12 mint leaves muddled with carbohydrate or simple syrup in a julep cup
- 3 oz rye whiskey
- ¼ oz brandy
- Add crushed ice
- Stir quietly, and consume a big sip
Recipe adapted from Chilled Magazine.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
How do you steer a frazzled nation out of the Great Depression and defeat the Nazi hordes? You end Prohibition and maintain a steady regimen of alcohol consumption. Peradventure more than whatever other president, FDR appreciated a good cocktail — and this might accept something to do with why he was elected president four times.
He insisted on a regular gossip-filled cocktail 60 minutes where he mixed the drinks himself in a silver cocktail fix from Red china. He added absinthe to pretty much everything. He got Stalin liquored up on muddy martinis at the Tehran conference in 1943, paving the way toward D-Day. Whenever you're feeling good near your accomplishments, reflect on how much fun this human being had while making the world a ameliorate place, and then pour yourself a potable to weep into.
But perhaps his favorite quaff was the Bermuda Rum Swizzle, which he preferred to take while sailing on his presidential yacht, the USS Potomac. "At body of water the radio messages and the occasional pouch of mail reduce official work to non more than two or iii hours a mean solar day," he boasted on a fundraising call while drifting off the coast of Fort Lauderdale in a rum-soaked haze. Let us always remember him thus.
Bermuda Rum Swizzle
- 2 oz dark rum
- ane oz fresh lime juice
- ane oz fresh orangish juice
- ¼ oz Velvet Falernum
- Shake and serve over ice, and then deliver a radio accost to soothe a weary nation
Recipe adapted from Mr. Boston Drinks.
John F. Kennedy
Perhaps the most glamorous of presidents, JFK drank any the absurd kids were drinking at the time — martinis with Ian Fleming, Dom Perignon with Marilyn Monroe, Jack Daniels with Frank Sinatra. He also had a weakness for Heineken — or so the Dutch would have the states believe.
Simply his favorite potable of all was the Bloody Mary. Legend has it that his chiffonier would sit in silence as he stirred his celery stem round and circular for xl minutes earlier declaring, "Okay, let's try the exploding cigar."
Bloody Mary
- iv oz lycopersicon esculentum juice
- 2 oz vodka
- ¼ oz lemon juice
- ¼ oz lime juice
- ¼ oz Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tsp horseradish
- ¼ tsp hot sauce
- Freshly cracked pepper
- Serve over ice in a drinking glass rimmed with One-time Bay
- Garnish with celery stalk
Recipe adapted from Meehan's Bartender Transmission.
Gerald Ford
During his fourth dimension as Nixon'southward veep, Ford would drink a slew of martinis during lunch, making him one of the near productive vice presidents in American history. Once it became clear Nixon would resign, Ford'southward killjoy aides urged him to cutting dorsum on the drinking. But if you've e'er watched Ford tumble down the stairs of Air Force Ane, you know he vetoed that suggestion.
"The 3-martini tiffin is the epitome of American efficiency," he said in a 1978 oral communication, afterward his loss to Jimmy Carter allowed him to devote more time to his love cocktail. "Where else tin can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?"
Lunchtime Martinis
- 3 oz Fords gin
- 1 oz dry vermouth
- Garnish with three olives
- Strain into a chilled coupe glass
- Repeat
- Repeat
Ronald Reagan
Famous for his all-American optimism and utter contempt for the poor, Ronald Reagan is easily the best role player who ever pretended to be president. He was mostly into wine but also seems like the kind of man who would happily potable whatsoever you put in his hand.
In a nod toward his BFF Gorbachev and his native California, Reagan's preferred cocktail was a variation on the Orange Blossom, a vodka-and-O.J. concoction that embodies the shiny, empty wasteland of 1980s mixology.
Ronnie's Orange Blossom
- 2 oz vodka
- two oz orange juice
- 1 oz grenadine
- Milk shake with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass
- Garnish with jelly beans and shredded Iran-Contra documents
Recipe adapted from Avant-garde Mixology.
Bill Clinton
Is this actually a cocktail? Depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is. Fun fact: In 2001, Clinton once tried to order a snakebite in 1 of the many United kingdom pubs that take banned the drinkable, which remains the nearly scandalous thing Clinton ever did.
Snakebite
- Fill a pint drinking glass with equal parts lager and hard cider
- Serve with a Big Mac and fries
George Due west. Bush
43 didn't drink, which explains his reputation as our near articulate-headed, thoughtful and responsible president.
Diet Coke
- Pop the tab, accept a sip. You're the Decider now.
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