Barbary Coast cocktails on Pacific Street in 1913.

Barbary Coast Cocktails Have Blear-eyed Men And Faded Women Drinking Vile Liquor*

Preparing Barbary Coast cocktails behind your bar at home may have you mixing up recipes like the Martinez or Pisco Punch. However, there are two cocktails actually named after the Barbary Coast in San Francisco. One (No. 2) is a drink you’ve probably never heard of. The other (No. 1) is an even earlier drink nobody else has probably ever heard of either. But, they’re both worth mining for.

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