#World Cocktail Day

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05/13/2024 is Memorial Day 🇮🇱, National Apple Pie Day 🥧🇺🇸, National Frog Jumping Day 🐸🇺🇸, National Fruit Cocktail Day 🇺🇸, Hummus Day 🇬🇧, World Cocktail Day 🍹🇬🇧, Mental Health Awareness Week 🇬🇧

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🍸 Happy World Cocktail Day! 🍸

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World Cocktail Day 

Host or attend a cocktail party and try out some new flavors, or perfect your hand at mixing any number of drinks, from a White Russian to a classic Cosmo.

“No party is complete without cocktails! My friends all have different tastes when it comes to their drink of choice, so I like to maintain a well-stocked bar with different kinds of alcohol to keep everyone happy.” ~Khloe Kardashian

One of the best ways people get together and bond over life is through drinking. For a fun night out, cocktails provide a wide arrangement of scents and flavors to keep everything exciting and have a long history of becoming a steady staple in people’s lives. So, let us dive right in and see what World Cocktail Day is all about.

History of World Cocktail Day

In 1806, The Balance and Columbian Repository coined the term “cocktail” as a stimulating liquor with a wide variety of sweets, waters, and bitters. Originally, the Oxford English Dictionary defined the term with a different set of connotations, describing it as a horse with a tail like a cock’s, with its tail cocked up instead of hung down.

Cocktails as a drink, however, started as a British invention in the 19th century and has since become an American innovation when a Connecticut-born bartender Jerry Thomas wrote the book “The Bartender’s Guide.” The Bartender’s Guide basically broadcasted an encyclopedia of how to mix drinks and recipes on some of the best combinations of drinks and flavors.

During the 1920s American prohibition, many cocktails were mixed into existence that remain firm favorites today. With not much high-quality alcohol available, cocktails were the perfect way to make that smuggled rum, gin or whiskey just a little bit more drinkable. Enter the cocktail; rum mojitos, the Sidecar, and the Tom Collins all flourished at a time when recreational alcohol wasn’t legal.

The ‘Bee’s Knees’ cocktail was actually created to mask and sweeten the taste of illegally brewed bathtub gin. The roaring twenties took the cocktail and shook it up into some of our most popular modern-day cocktails. Drinking didn’t stop during the prohibition, people simply went underground. Many illegal speakeasies popped up, serving cocktails in jazz-style locales.

Post-prohibition saw the invention of drinks that still grace the pages of your favorite cocktail bar menus. 1954 saw the mixing of the Pina Colada in Puerto Rico when Ramon Marrero created the delicious pineapple treat at the Caribe Hilton hotel. 1988 saw the much-loved Cosmopolitan enter our lives, thanks to Toby Cecchini and his desire to share a drink with his fellow bartenders in San Francisco.

A constant throughout the cocktail era in America was the Rainbow Room. Opened after the prohibition in 1934, the Rainbow Room was a high-end club where New York A-listers could celebrate in style with post-prohibition cocktails. The Rainbow Room was revived and renovated in different forms over the years, being closed during WWII and for various restorations.

The 1987 reopening saw emerging mixologist Dale DeGroff create a pre-prohibition list of cocktails that revived some firm favorites and spearheaded the modern cocktail mixing revolution that made the cocktail bar increasingly popular.

The holiday itself is held annually by Drinkaware, a United Kingdom-based charity that brings awareness to the effects of drinking and aims to reduce the harm that drinking can have on people and families. The website provides facts and information about drinking, alcohol poisoning, and alcohol abuse. The World Cocktail Day page that Drinkaware hosts have events all over the world that you can partake in, a blog you can follow about your favorite recipes, and how you can drink safely while also having fun.

How to Celebrate World Cocktail Day

If you’re up for a night of fun drinking, then host a party at your place and mix up some of your favorite drinks for your friends. If you want to spice things up, check out a new recipe on some of your favorite blogs or newsletters, and make your kitchen or bar into an experiment place for you and your friends.

If you’re feeling confident, you could create your own home bar and serve some of your favorite fizz-fuelled cocktails, or make your own cocktail creations with a fresh twist. Give your bar a theme and add your own unique names to your new mixers. Treat yourself to a cocktail bible and teach yourself how to make the perfect passionfruit martini or rope in your own bartender friend for some mixology advice.

If you are creating your own home bar and are jumping in as a novice bartender, you could start with a classy cosmopolitan or cheeky sex on the beach. Why not take a theme to a whole new level and take your new bar theme to a party level. Whether you’re making a sneaky speakeasy or a chic cocktail bar, making it your own is the perfect way to celebrate World Cocktail Day.

You could even avoid doing the work yourself and enroll in a cocktail class for you and your friends. Learn from the best shakers and master mixologists. Don’t want to leave the house? Why not use an online video or order a beginner’s pack right to your door. Or splash out on an inhouse mixing masterclass (calling all bartender friends again).

You might be more of a cocktail connoisseur than a master mixologist. Why not get some of the good stuff mixed for you, so you can sample some delightful cocktails without having to actually make them yourself. Put on a cocktail-themed film, sip your mojito and feel like you’re in the summer sun.

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It’s #WorldCocktailDay! So what better time to pour yourself a drink and settle in to learn all about the history of the cocktail, and some of the fascinating connections of some iconic drinks, with our Cocktail playlist!

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world cocktail day

What’s your favourite cocktail?

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I saw this too late to post in ‘22, but it is 13 May once again.

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Yas Bay Waterfront is your watering hole of choice this World Cocktail Day

Grab your pals and head down to the promenade for a selection of beverages garnished with an olive or a twist

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Tom's the BEST! ❤❤

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concert, cocktails and (lots of) crying 💙

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For #WorldPenguinDay check out this delightful Art Deco penguin cocktail shaker/jug!

Emile Arthur Schuelke (1901–86) for the Napier Company Cocktail shaker or jug special edition for the 1939 New York World's Fair (originally designed 1936) silver plate, 31.6 x 13.2 x 11.5cm Royal Collection Trust

"A silver plated cocktail shaker or jug in the shape of a penguin, with hinged beak as pourer, wings to side, S-shape handle and claw base. The base is stamped with the Napier patent mark D-101559.

Designed by Emile Arthur Schuelke (1901–86), an art deco penguin cocktail shaker was first produced for the Napier Company in September 1936. This special edition for the New York World’s Fair, complete with octagonal blue emblem on the penguin’s head, may have been produced to complement an exhibit called Admiral Byrd’s Penguin Island. Taking its name from the American explorer Rear Admiral Richard Byrd Jr (1888–1957), who had made several expeditions to Antarctica, Penguin Island featured fifty live penguins, the largest number ever shown. Alongside them was Admiral Byrd’s personal team of five Huskies, born and reared at Little America, Antarctica; and Advance Base, the hut in which Byrd had stayed during his most recent expedition to Antarctica in 1934–5.

Provenance: From the New York World's Fair, 1939. Probably acquired by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth during their visit to the Fair on 10 June 1939, as part of their tour of US and Canada. Later recorded in the collection of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother at Clarence House."

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International Dark 'n Stormy Day

Sailors and cocktail enthusiasts rejoice,  this year June 9 is International Dark ‘n Stormy Day. This delicious  and potent highball was created in an accidental collaborative effort by a family of Bermudian rum makers (you know the Goslings, don’t you) and some seasick sailors. Members of the British Navy stationed on Bermuda in the 1920s brewed ginger beer as a remedy for seasickness. Some intrepid sailors began adding a dash of the Goslings’ locally made Black Seal Rum to the ginger beer, transforming a dizzy-tummy remedy into one  of the most popular and widely-recognized cocktails to date. So pour  yourself a tall glass of Goslings Stormy Ginger Beer with a topper of Goslings Black Seal Rum and raise a toast to the gifted minds who  brought us this liquid masterpiece.

Sailors  and cocktail enthusiasts rejoice, this year June 9* is International  Dark ‘n Stormy Day. This delicious and potent highball was created in  an accidental collaborative effort by a family of Bermudian rum makers  (you know the Goslings, don’t you) and some seasick sailors. Members of  the British Navy stationed on Bermuda in the 1920s brewed ginger beer as  a remedy for seasickness. Some intrepid sailors began adding a dash of  the Goslings’ locally made Black Seal Rum to the ginger beer,  transforming a dizzy-tummy remedy into one of the most popular and  widely-recognized cocktails to date. So pour yourself a tall glass of  Goslings Stormy Ginger Beer with a topper of Goslings Black Seal Rum and  raise a toast to the gifted minds who brought us this liquid  masterpiece.

Five Fast Facts:

It has a specific recipe

While  mixing other rums with ginger beer might taste good, a cocktail just  isn’t a Dark ‘n Stormy unless it utilizes the unique flavor of Goslings  Black Seal Rum.

Hall of Famer

The Dark ‘n Stormy was awarded #19 on 2020’s list of the World’s Best Selling Cocktails.

The Best Mixer Around

Goslings Stormy Ginger Beer is the #1 Selling Ginger Beer Brand in the U.S.

The Taste of Bermuda

The Dark ‘n Stormy holds the title of Bermuda’s National Drink.

A Global Phenomenon

Goslings Black Seal Rum is exported to more than 20 countries. Making the Dark ‘n Stormy a truly global cocktail.

History of International Dark 'n Stormy Day

It  was a dark and stormy night…well, it’s more likely that it was a nice  and peaceful day in the spring of 1806 when James Gosling — the eldest  son of wine and spirit merchant, William Gosling — embarked on a journey  from England to America with 10,000 pounds of merchandise.  Unfortunately, after 91 days at sea, his charter ran out, so James and  his crew decided to head for the nearest port: St. George’s, Bermuda.  Instead of moving on from Bermuda to America, he and his brother Ambrose  set up shop on King’s Parade Street in 1824. Over the years, the  Gosling family perfected their blending technique until they created  their unique black rum, originally referred to as “Old Rum” up until  World War I. In the early 1900s, they began packaging their rum in  repurposed champagne bottles and sealing them shut with black wax. From  that moment, the rum became widely referred to as “Black Seal.”

In  the 1920s, the family’s rum caught the attention of Royal Naval  Officers who were brewing their own ginger beer. They added a hefty  splash of the dark rum to their sparkling drink and accidentally created  a delicious and iconic cocktail. According to legend, the cocktail got  its recognizable name when an old fisherman claimed the drink had the  “color of a cloud only a fool or dead man would sail under.” On June 9, 1980, the Gosling family trademarked the cocktail, protecting the  integrity of the drink’s recipe the world over, and forever ensuring  that a cocktail can only be advertised as an authentic Dark ‘n Stormy if it contains the key ingredient – Goslings Black Seal Rum.

International Dark 'n Stormy Day timeline

1806 James Gosling Arrives in Bermuda

En route to America, James Gosling instead makes a home on Bermuda, and a rum-making legacy is born.

1824 Bermuda's Wine and Spirit Merchants

Ambrose Gosling arrives to Bermuda and he and his brother set up shop on King's Parade Street in St. George's, Bermuda.

1920s A Storm is Brewing

British  Royal Naval Officers tried adding Goslings Black Seal Rum to their  ginger beer — an old sailor claimed the drink looked just like storm  clouds.

1950s Tall, Dark, and Handsome

Francis  “Goose” Gosling (6th generation) designs signature Black Seal logo, and  the name is officially changed from “Old Rum” to Goslings Black Seal  Rum.

1980 A Proper Cocktail

The Gosling family trademarked the Dark 'n Stormy cocktail, mandating that  the only way to list it is with the use of ginger beer and Goslings Black Seal Rum.

2009 Goslings Introduces Stormy Ginger Beer

With the addition of Goslings own brand of ginger beer, the Dark 'n Stormy is completely in the family.

2012 Dark 'n Stormy In a Can

Gosling releases a ready-to-drink Dark 'n Stormy in a can in the U.S. making this beloved cocktail even more enticing.

International Dark 'n Stormy Day Activities

Enjoy a glass (or can) of the refreshing cocktail

Dress up as a sailor

Create Dark 'n Stormy Cuisine

If  you're celebrating International Dark 'n Stormy Day, then it's only a given that you indulge in the deep and sparkling flavors of a Dark 'n Stormy. Whether you like it layered in a glass or in Goslings quick and convenient can, the only way you can go wrong is by not drinking it at all!

The Dark 'n Stormy is the sailor's drink of choice, so it's only right that  you take on the part of a sailor after drinking one...or two. However, please drink responsibly, just because you're dressed as a sailor  doesn't mean you have the alcohol tolerance of one. Trust us, we know.

Ginger, rum, lime, these are all wonderful flavor profiles for a myriad of culinary concoctions. Try your hand at baking Dark 'n Stormy cupcakes, or blending some Dark 'n Stormy ice cream.

Why We Love International Dark 'n Stormy Day

We get to drink our favorite cocktail

A drink with history

It stems from a family business

When there's a full day dedicated to the creation of our favorite cocktail,  it's only right that we take the time to indulge. It's called being festive. Whether you're a professional mixologist or just play one at  home, nothing could be simpler than mixing up a Dark 'n Stormy.

This  cocktail comes with a story — the more we learn about it, the more we love it. How many other cocktails can say they're the sailor's drink of choice? Probably not many, because they can't talk, but you know what we mean.

There's  something about a family business that lets us know that everything was created with care, attention to detail, and affection. The Gosling family has been in the rum making business for over 200 years, and as hey've grown into the rum company that we all know and love today, they've maintained the integrity of their one-of-a-kind Bermuda rum.

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It’s #WorldCocktailDay! So what better time to pour yourself a drink and settle in to learn all about the history of the cocktail, and some of the fascinating connections of some iconic drinks, with our Cocktail playlist!

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Alice in Borderland s2 finale……. I’m so sorry but what on god’s forsaken fucking green planet earth was that 🧍🏻‍♀️

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I have boba (brown sugar milk tea let’s go!) once a week, to remind myself if the sweeter things in life. I bought myself a loose, soft cardigan today, and I love it so so so much. I felt the sun today. Watched the sun set over a beautiful city skyline. Ate a very good and hearty meal for dinner. Met a friend I hadn’t seen in a while, had some great conversation. Watched the trees cast shadows on my bedroom ceiling as I lay on my firm bed and soft comforter. I’m starting at a new workplace soon. I swept my house and dusted my brain today.

Life is worth living. I’m happy I’m here.

Life doesn’t end at 18, guys. Just today I drank yet another cup of coffee and it was delicious.

Some people see routine as sad or something but every day I’m still like oh boy coffee time yum