Bosses, if all of your employees call in sick on Thursday, December 6, here’s why: In celebration of Repeal Day—that is, the anniversary of the date on which we did away with the 18th Amendment and made alcohol legal once more—Firefly bar manager Jon Harris has designed a special menu featuring $10 cocktails all evening on Wednesday, December 5.
The cocktails are all themed around our nation’s dark era under the Volstead Act. So for instance the 12 Miles Out—from the famous Savoy Cocktail Book—refers to the fact that 12 miles away from American shores, Volstead was void. The rye-based scofflaw, meanwhile, references a slang term for a person who flagrantly disobeyed the law and drank liquor anyway. (So, you know, everybody.)
Firefly Repeal Day Menu
12 Miles Out
Silver Rum, Calvados, Swedish Punsch
12 Mile Limit
White Rum, Rye Whisky, Brandy, Lemon, Grenadine
Scofflaw
Old Overholt Rye, Dolin Rouge Vermouth, Orange, Lemon, Grenadine, Orange Bitters
Bee’s Knees
Gordon’s Gin, Lemon, Honey
Southside
Gordon’s Gin, Lime, Mint
Prohibition Cocktail
Gin, Cocchi Americano, Orange, Apricot Liqueur
Volstead Cocktail
Rye Whisky, Swedish Punsch, Orange, Grenadine, Anisette
Sidecar
St. Remy VSOP Brandy, Lemon, Cointreau, Sugar Rim
Daiquiri
El Dorado 3 Rum, Lime, Sugar
Charlie Chaplin
Apricot Liqueur, Sloe Gin, Lime
