Was Prohibition really the Gilded Age utopia that it’s made out to be? In this episode: Cocktail innovation happening in unlikely places under unlikely circumstances. We feature the Bees Knees and the Bloody Mary.

Further Reading:

A Spiritous Journey ( by Jared Brown and Anistatia Miller

“A Study of the Great Immoralities: Saloons in Chicago Before WWI ( ” Ohio State University

“Bootleggers and Bathtub Gin ( ” The Mob Museum

Lost Recipes of Prohibition: Notes From a Bootlegger’s Manual ( by Matthew Rowley

Prohibition’s Greatest Myths: The Distilled Truth About America’s Anti-Alcohol Crusade ( , Edited by Michael Lewis & Richard F. Hamm

Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition ( by Mark Lawrence Schrad

“The Dangers of Common Ownership in an Uncommon Industry ( ” by Jessica Starns Attorney At Law, LLC

“The FBI and the American Gangster, 1924-1938 ( ” The Federal Bureau of Investigation

“The Man in the Green Hat ( ” The United States Senate

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