The Bad Drinks of the Cocktail Renaissance

The trouble with a classicist he looks at a tree
That’s all he sees, he paints a tree
The trouble with a classicist he looks at the sky
He doesn’t ask why, he just paints a sky
– Lou Reed & John Cale, “Trouble with Classicists”

In the two decades since the dawn of the Great Cocktail Renaissance of the 21st century, dozens of forgotten...