Art of Drink | Rock and Rye: Old Fashioned Cocktail or Cough Syrup? @Artofdrink | Uploaded August 2022 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
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Rock & Rye became popular at the pharmacy as a "cough remedy" in the early 1880s because the manufacturers of this patent medicine didn’t have to pay taxes on the alcohol, nor did the sellers. Tolu was considered an anti-tussive (cough suppressant), so for a while, Rock & Rye was considered a cough syrup, but that only lasted a few years. Eventually, it became obvious that this was just a bottled Old Fashioned Cocktail, and the tax was applied to the product making it less appealing.
But Tolu Rock & Rye tastes pretty good and works well as a variation on the Old Fashioned.
Rock & Rye Recipe
500 ml Rye Whisky
150 ml Simple Syrup
10 ml Tincture of Tolu (2 ml Tolu + 8 ml EtOH)
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Rock & Rye became popular at the pharmacy as a "cough remedy" in the early 1880s because the manufacturers of this patent medicine didn’t have to pay taxes on the alcohol, nor did the sellers. Tolu was considered an anti-tussive (cough suppressant), so for a while, Rock & Rye was considered a cough syrup, but that only lasted a few years. Eventually, it became obvious that this was just a bottled Old Fashioned Cocktail, and the tax was applied to the product making it less appealing.
But Tolu Rock & Rye tastes pretty good and works well as a variation on the Old Fashioned.
Rock & Rye Recipe
500 ml Rye Whisky
150 ml Simple Syrup
10 ml Tincture of Tolu (2 ml Tolu + 8 ml EtOH)
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Twitter: twitter.com/dsoneil
#sodafountain #history #cocktail at
