Invented in the first decade of the 20th century by Charlie Mahoney, head bartender at New York’s famed Hoffman House hotel on Madison Square, the Modern combines the two trendiest ingredients of the period: Scotch whisky and sloe gin. You wouldn’t think the pairing would work, yet it does, in the same way that streetcars and heavy, silver-cased pocketwatches worked. Good enough for me.

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Référence : https://www.diffordsguide.com/cocktails/recipe/3085/the-modern