Mixed drinks for toasting death and defeat of nazis [View all]
Adam McDowell
Sep 2, 2017
... A kir may not sound too much like a badass drink ... But it was tough enough for Canon Félix Kir, a priest who played cat-and-mouse against the Nazis as a member of the French Resistance ...
Kir... Captured by the Germans ... twice escaped. He may only have avoided summary execution because he was a priest. Kir survived the Second World War to become mayor of Dijon ...
Kir royale
Add 1 part cassis to 6 parts dry sparkling wine. Stir gently ...
The Germans steamrollered into France in 1941, and senior Luftwaffe officers and Hitler lieutenant Hermann Göring set up their headquarters in the Ritz Hotel — where a man named Frank Meier managed the bar ...
Meier ... not only passed information to the French and British intelligence about what the Nazi commanders were up to, he also assisted a plot against Hitler among German commanders. Being part Jewish, Meier must have known what would have happened to him had he been caught ....
... the original called for peach brandy ....
Golden clipper ...
3/4 oz. gin
3/4 oz. white rum
3/4 oz. freshly squeezed orange juice
3/4 oz. apricot brandy
Method: Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well and strain into a chilled coupe/cocktail glass ...
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