Cheers to World Cocktail Day

Published May 12, 2010 at 10:12 p.m.

May 13th is World Cocktail Day and marks the end of World Cocktail Week. Why this week? Well, the answer to that is that it is a celebration of the first time that the definition of the cocktail was put into printed material giving us the first official historical record of the "cocktail." It appeared in The Balance and Columbian Repository on this date in 1806 and read:

"Cocktail is a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters."

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Cheers to World Cocktail Day originally appeared on About.com Cocktails on Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 at 22:12:15.

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