Drink invented in Detroit a hot topic among cocktail geeks.
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This libation, invented at the Detroit Athletic Club, is called the
Last Word. It’s a chilled, verdant, pungent combination of gin,
maraschino liqueur, lime and green Chartreuse, an herbal liqueur
concocted 400 years ago by French monks.
“In
cocktail geekdom, few drinks get more discussed and dissected than the
Last Word,” wrote Tan Vinh, a Seattle journalist who researched that
city’s hottest drink and found its popularity had spread to cocktail
lounges around the world.
No
one at the DAC had heard about the Last Word until Vinh contacted the
club earlier this year. Staffers searched the archives of the DAC News,
the club’s monthly magazine, plus old menus and other ephemera. They
found nothing.
That’s because it had been more than 80 years since the DAC invented the drink — a product of Prohibition in the 1920s.
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