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selling cocktail, the Amelia.

There's people who bartend to pay rent,

and that's it, you know?

Which is fine. There's people

that call themselves uh...

What's that funny word?

Mixologists.

The are geeks that usually use

the jiggers and stuff like that.

And they take forever to make

your drink when you need to

get these drinks out.

Then there's the bartender,

which we like to consider ourselves.

Where uhm...

Take the elements of mixologists

that know his recipes, that

knows his cocktails.

You add a little bit of the

sage, which is the wise man.

The one who uh... The one who

knows...

the boundaries. The one who

knows the situational.

Is aware of everything.

And then there's the rockstar.

The one who likes to have

good time.

And make sure everyone else

is having a good time.

Sometimes we feel we have got to help

people who are trying to create this world.

They're not happy with the

world we got.

They see some remanance of

the past

Seen through the prism of a

cocktail glass is like

Let's get that kind of place

back.

Let's get that kind of drink

back.

Let's get that kind of

bartender back.

And maybe we can, you know,

bring it all back to a uh...

a more convivial era,

that we lost somewhere along the way.

The... cocktail is...

Sort-of of America's gift to

the world of beverage alcohol,

where it is our cultural

tradition.

The cocktail, as we know,

is a composite beverage

made of parts.

We as a people, in fact

are made up of

people that came from all

around the world.

And when they came here, they

brought with them

Whether it was grain

alcohols, or liqueurs, or beer

or whatever.

And those things all ended up

accumulating in one glass

and we called it the cocktail.

And by the eighteen eighties,

we have what we call

And it was that era, that we still look

back to, at the cocktail lounges of today.

America's relation to drinking

before prohibition was extensive,

it, you know, it went back to

the first colonial days.

It used to be that the bartender was

the royalty of the working class.

You know, he was the banker

and the judge, and you know

whatever you needed him. That

was the bartender.

He was the personal trust.

Bartenders were pretty much the

rockstars of their community.

They were the most important

people in the town.

Jerry Thomas is really

considered to be the

father of the American bar

tending profession.

Because he was the first guy

in 1862, who actually

wrote these recipes down.

And his book was published.

It was called "How To Mix

Drinks" or

"The Bon Vivant's Companion."

And it became an instant

classic. It was repeated in

edition, after edition,

after edition.

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