{"id":1432,"date":"2010-03-14T22:39:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T05:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2010-03-14T22:39:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T05:39:50","slug":"twelve-mile-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=1432","title":{"rendered":"Twelve Mile Limit"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m exceedingly thankful that Prohibition<\/a> was repealed.\u00c2\u00a0 Let me reiterate.\u00c2\u00a0 Thank you to the people who were level headed enough to get rid of this bit of legal weirdness.\u00c2\u00a0 We all know about the major details of the time but there are also some really interesting details that are rarely discussed.\u00c2\u00a0 For example, one nuance of the Volstead Act<\/a> that I had no knowledge of was that it was perfectly legal during Prohibition to make up to 200 gallons of wine or cider per year in your home.\u00c2\u00a0 Beer, however, was still a no-no.\u00c2\u00a0 Or, how about this one.\u00c2\u00a0 The use of “intoxicating beverages” was, in fact, not prohibited by the amendment.\u00c2\u00a0 Thus, in the time between the passing of the act and when the law went in to effect you had a lot of people stocking up on liquor.\u00c2\u00a0 From a guy who has a collection of over 100 bottles when there isn’t a prohibition in effect I see no issue in stocking up.<\/p>\n

So, what brought on all this reading about Prohibition?\u00c2\u00a0 The Twelve Mile Limit, this week’s cocktail.\u00c2\u00a0 This is another one I found in Ted Haigh’s Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails.\u00c2\u00a0 The recipe looks really tasty, but what really got me interested was the back story.\u00c2\u00a0 Imagine you’re a rum runner during Prohibition.\u00c2\u00a0 You’re bringing a load of rum up from the islands.\u00c2\u00a0 How close can you get to the US coast before you have to start worrying about the revenuers?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, if it’s early in prohibition, you can get to about 3 miles out and you’re good to go.\u00c2\u00a0 Since it wasn’t illegal to own the hooch, only to sell it in the US, people could simply cruise out and pick up whatever they like for personal consumption.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, not surprisingly, those in power didn’t much like this.\u00c2\u00a0 So, they pushed the limit on territorial waters where Prohibition was concerned out to one hour’s “steaming distance”<\/a>, generally 12 miles.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 This, clearly, made it a lot more difficult for those without serious boats to get out to the liquor sellers.\u00c2\u00a0 As a result, the Twelve Mile Limit was concocted as a jab at the rule makers.<\/p>\n

To add to the already good story, there is a bit more.\u00c2\u00a0 The Twelve Mile Limit is based on another cocktail, listed as the Three Miller cocktail or Three Miler depending on where you look.\u00c2\u00a0 There is definitely a link between the two though.\u00c2\u00a0 The Three Miler and Twelve Mile Limit include the exact same ingredients, with a minor addition of some rye to the latter.\u00c2\u00a0 While I’m going to focus on the Twelve Mile Limit this week, I am going to mix up the Three Miler just to taste the differences.\u00c2\u00a0 So, now that you have the unique back story, let’s get started with the tasty part of this week.<\/p>\n

Twelve Mile Limit (Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails)<\/strong><\/pre>\n
1 oz White Rum\r\n1\/2 oz Rye Whiskey\r\n1\/2 oz Brandy\r\n1\/2 oz Grenadine\r\n1\/2 oz Lemon Juice<\/strong><\/pre>\n
1) Combine ingredients in a shaker over ice\r\n2) Shake until combined and well chilled\r\n3) Strain into a chilled cocktail glass<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/pre>\n
And, it’s predecessor:<\/p>\n
Three Miller (The Savoy Cocktail Book)<\/strong><\/pre>\n
1 tsp Grenadine\r\n1 Dash Lemon Juice\r\n1\/3 Bacardi Rum\r\n2\/3 Brandy\r\n\r\n1) Combine ingredients in a shaker over ice\r\n2) Shake until combined and well chilled\r\n3) Strain into a chilled cocktail glass<\/strong><\/pre>\n
*Note:\u00c2\u00a0 In case you’re wondering, the US territorial waters<\/a> weren’t officially extended to 12 miles until long after the end of Prohibition.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, it wasn’t internationally recognized until President Reagan made the claim in 1988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m exceedingly thankful that Prohibition was repealed.\u00c2\u00a0 Let me reiterate.\u00c2\u00a0 Thank you to the people who were level headed enough to get rid of this bit of legal weirdness.\u00c2\u00a0 We all know about the major details of the time but there are also some really interesting details that are rarely discussed.\u00c2\u00a0 For example, one nuance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10,144],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","tag-recipe","tag-twelve-mile-limit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1434,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions\/1434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}