STARS AND SPIRITS
Cocktail: The Maureen O’Hara
Inspiration: Actress Maureen O’Hara
Base Ingredient: Irish Whiskey
Why today? O’Hara died yesterday, Oct. 24, 2015.
Origin: March 2013, from the blog The Straight Up
Cocktail Groupings: Old Hollywood, Actresses & Calendar Cocktails
Actress Maureen O’Hara died yesterday, Oct. 24, 2015.
You can read her obituary in The New York Times here, and The Guardian here.
Despite being known as the “Queen of Technicolor,” I grabbed a black-and-white photo from Google images because I liked the contrast and general look of O’hara in this photo.
In March of 2013, the blog The Straight Up posted the following original cocktail and named it the Maureen O’Hara:
INGREDIENTS
- 1.5 Irish Whiskey
- .75 Dry Vermouth
- .75 Domaine de Canton
- 12 Bittermens Hellfire Habanero Shrub
- 8 Bittermens Hopped Grapefruit Bitters
- Lemon Twist
PREPARATION
Add the Irish whiskey, dry vermouth, Domaine de Canton and habanero shrub and hopped grapefruit bitters to a chilled mixing glass. Add ice and stir until well chilled. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.
All The Stars & Spirits:
There are dozens of cocktails named after actors and actresses, and I’ve written about a few of them here:
•Charlie Chaplain — (Link)
•Clara Bow — Link)
•Fay Wray — (Link)
•Ginger Rogers — (Link)
•Lauren Bacall — (Link)
•Lillian Gish — (Link)
•Mary Astor — (Link)
•Mary Lee — (Link)
•Mary Pickford — (Link)
Frontier Mixology 