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Tag: Seelbach Cocktail

  • Seelbach Cocktail – Results are Muddied

    Like the Champagne Cocktail I tried to like the Seelbach.  In fact, I’m finishing my last one as I type this.  While I won’t say that the drink is bad (it certainly isn’t) I also won’t say it’s great.  The combination of bitters in the quantity called for makes for a drink with a very…

  • Seelbach Cocktail

    Named for, and created at, the Seelbach Hotel in Louisville, KY the Seelbach Cocktail sounds like a seriously delicious libation.  This drink is an old one, dating from 1917 and had been lost since before Prohibition.  As noted in Vintage Cocktails and Spirits (of which there is a new version) this drink was rediscovered in…