America’s Oldest Drinking Club

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America’s Oldest Drinking Club The Schuylkill Fishing Company & Its Iconic Colonial Rum Punch In the heart of 18th-century Philadelphia, a group of influential men sought refuge from the bustling city along the serene banks of the Schuylkill River. Their retreat,...

Peychaud’s Bitters

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Peychaud’s Bitters In the 1830s, Antoine Amédée Peychaud, a Creole pharmacist in New Orleans, invented a gentian-based bitter that turns cocktails reddish. Peychaud came from the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), and compared to Angostura bitters,...