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Dinah Sanders & Joseph Gratz.

The Art of the Shim: Low-Alcohol Cocktails to Keep You Level

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I'm an indie author/publisher, but if I was with any of those publishers I would NOT be suing the Internet Archive either.

Libraries are a positive good for authors.

My books sales are higher the more libraries my books are in—and that includes Controlled Digital Lending.

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And pre-Prohibition many books mixed the no, low, regular, and high strength drinks together—which suggests the customers and perhaps their drinking during a single visit were similarly integrated.

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And always worth noting that the new No & Low movement has deep roots, so deep as to be foundational. By my calculations done some years back, Jerry Thomas’ 1862 book is 32% no & low, Terrington’s 1869 is 44%, Boothby 1891 40%. Even Ensslin & Bullock in 1917 are 23% & 29%.

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@CreativeDrunk Bar tray, with room for 8 bottles.

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@speakeasyradio @ideasimprove The Art of the Shim: Low-Alcohol Cocktails to Keep You Level is still available as an ebook and you can most easily support me by buying it from these links (Kindle) https://t.co/o75Se4ZMcV or (EPUB) https://t.co/eowHoP75c9

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Chuffed at the kind mentions of The Art of the Shim in this episode of @SpeakeasyRadio podcast https://t.co/qzjPGx84mc with @ideasimprove (whose new book has arrived from our local bookstore!)

For more on my research supporting proof-integrated menus, see https://t.co/tjXx9PMjKj

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From the department of incomplete Bibulous research, here is data from Dinah’s rough analysis of 17 early cocktail books dated 1862 through 1917.

tl;dr: they drank at all proofs, from mocktails to overproof all the way through.

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What a lovely article from Rebekah Peppler with drink variations at different proofs including no-proof for a classic: https://t.co/9etRAlesc1

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@bonvivants_sf Excited that their menu gets back to the roots of cocktail bars by representing on an equal footing the full range of drink proofs. Cheers for everyone!

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Truly delighted to hear about the @bonvivants_sf’s new venture ChezChez coming to the old Bon Voyage space with the great Jennifer Colliau as beverage director. https://t.co/2YsIoVKOkG

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This inverted cocktail sounds lovely!

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I found an old note in reference to this research: "Recalculate Boothby at 1.5oz jigger, and pony = ‘small bar glass’.

I don’t think got to that.

Not sure what it means anymore, alas, but noting it here for anyone else attempting a similar set of calculations.

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High strength (4+ oz of 40%+ ABV ingredients) ranged from 0-5% of the recipes (except 1869 Terrington, where it was 31%!), but 13 of the 17 had 0-2% of the recipes high-proof.

(Is it possible that Terrington’s recipes were heavily weighted toward cups intended to be shared?)

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… 1904 Stuart, 1908-1914 Boothby, 1917 Bullock (for which I assumed a 1.5 oz jigger), 1917 Ensslin.

Some notes on measurements are available with the books’ entries in our Bibulous Bibliography https://t.co/aTknI64faz

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We are deeply impressed by this video from @gillybrewbar
Serious heart, power, and skill.

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Regular strength (1.25oz through 4oz of 40%+ ABV ingredients) cocktails make up 18-69% of the recipes in these books. (1869 Terrington is the outlier, the next lowest % was 1908/1914 Boothby at 43%).

8 of the 17 books had 60-69% of their recipes regular strength.

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From the department of incomplete Bibulous research, here is data from Dinah’s rough analysis of 17 early cocktail books dated 1862 through 1917.

tl;dr: they drank at all proofs, from mocktails to overproof all the way through.

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So, let’s be clear; of these 17 cocktail books between 1862 and 1917, none of them had less than 29% of their recipes below regular strength.

Modern bars are woefully lacking the diversity of proof of beverages offered at early bars.