Comments on: Floating through Repeal Day: the Twelve Mile Limit Cocktail https://cold-glass.com/2011/12/05/floating-through-repeal-day-the-twelve-mile-limit-cocktail/ You can make these cocktails. Start right now. Fri, 01 Apr 2022 21:48:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Drink of the Week: The Twelve-Mile Limit https://cold-glass.com/2011/12/05/floating-through-repeal-day-the-twelve-mile-limit-cocktail/#comment-106990 Fri, 08 Jan 2016 17:00:22 +0000 http://cold-glass.com/?p=4295#comment-106990 […] rum was in order and offered El Dorado 3 Year Old or Montanya Platino. The following year, blogger Doug Ford used Mount Gay Eclipse Silver rum, Sazerac rye, and Courvoisier VSOP […]

]]> By: Doug Ford https://cold-glass.com/2011/12/05/floating-through-repeal-day-the-twelve-mile-limit-cocktail/#comment-1153 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:44:50 +0000 http://cold-glass.com/?p=4295#comment-1153 In reply to Frederic.

Yes, that prescription loophole cracks me up. Can you imagine how many prescriptions would have been written to keep half a dozen bourbon distilleries up and running for the duration of Prohibition? Doctors must have had lots of friends in those times…

Interesting point about the rum. I noticed your observation (in your writeup of the Twelve Mile Limit) that Prohibition cocktails as a class tend to include a fairly sharp flavor. I hadn’t interpreted them that way, but I could be convinced. Since the rum is the dominant spirit in this one, I can see how a bigger rum might be appropriate.

]]> By: Frederic https://cold-glass.com/2011/12/05/floating-through-repeal-day-the-twelve-mile-limit-cocktail/#comment-1148 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:39:50 +0000 http://cold-glass.com/?p=4295#comment-1148 There were still whiskey distilleries in the U.S. making medicinal Bourbon. Six or seven (two distilleries merged as a result of this) were allowed to do this. Although much of the whiskey during Prohibition would have been Canadian or Scotch.

Also, the 12 Mile Limit works best with a rougher white rum. Too smooth, and the drink loses its character.

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