When these celebrities and iconic characters want to knock one back, these are the drinks they choose.
1. Madeira – Ben Franklin
If there are two things Big Ben Franklin will always be remembered for, it’s drinking and syphilis.
Or is it persuading the French to join in with the colonists to fight the British and the key-on-the-kite electricity experiment?
Either or, the point is, when Franklin wasn’t changing the world he was refilling his glass.
His drink of choice? Madeira, an oxidized and fortified wine.
2. Mojito – Ernest Hemingway
You’d think Hemingway, the man’s man, would go for something like whiskey, straight up.
But no, Bumby liked his rum and mint.
If you’ve never been one for the Cuban cocktail, give Ernie’s recipe a try:
6 fresh mint leaves
Juice of 1 lime
2 tsp light brown sugar
1-1/2 oz. white rum, 3 oz. champagne
Sprig of fresh mint, for garnish
3. Gin Rickey – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Rickey’s resurgence in the last decade has made it cool again, especially within the D.C. Beltway.
But for F. Scott Fitzgerald, it was always cool. In the roaring '20s, he was known for being more than just a great writer—Fitzgerald’s low tolerance and tendency for tomfoolery gave him a reputation as a prankster.
So, when he disclosed he loved gin because it wasn’t easy to detect on his breath, his friends were probably left biting their tongue.
He made no secret of his love affair with drinking, once saying, "First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."
The gin rickey took him and was forever immortalized in The Great Gatsby.
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