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Tea Punch Was the First Cocktail
This boozy brew used to be the British and American drink of choice.
Bartenders around the world mix Earl Grey martinis or chai-spiced White Russians, while the beverage company Owl’s Brew has been selling canned tea cocktails in flavors like jasmine and blackberry since 2013. An American recipe for “Regent’s Punch” from 1815, said to give drinkers a “mad, delirious dizziness,” contains arrack, brandy, champagne, and rum in addition to sugar, citrus juice and green tea. Taverns and coffeehouses where people gathered for long periods socializing around a punch bowl were replaced by restaurants and bars where individual drinks were made to order, an adjustment to the faster pace of industrialized life.
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