Fifteen whisky cocktails from How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion —
the first cocktail book published in America. Every recipe is built into Pourledger.
Download any recipe or the full collection as a .whiskey file to import directly into the app.
Jeremiah "Jerry" Thomas (1830–1885) was the most celebrated bartender in 19th-century America. He tended bar at establishments from San Francisco to New York, and became famous for his theatrical Blue Blazer — pouring flaming whisky between two mugs in long, fiery streams.
In 1862 he published How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, the first cocktail book ever printed in the United States. It codified the craft of bartending for the first time, defining drinks that remain foundational to the cocktail canon: the Cocktail, the Sling, the Julep, the Flip, the Sangaree, the Smash.
All 15 recipes included in Pourledger are drawn from the 1862 first edition, public domain. The original recipe text is preserved in the Notes field of each recipe.