I know this is a semi-lost cause, but is there a particular resource anyone can recommend that would show a chronology of alcoholic beverages by year, or possibly by decade.
i.e. Fish House Punch dates to 1732, the Negroni is circa 1919, the Penicillin is from 2005, etc…
Sort of. Total Mixology has a rather large (4000+ recipes) carefully-assembled recipe database. Pretty much every drink has a year associated with it. The year is either the year the drink is attributed to (if known) or the year of the publication it appears in. The database may have multiple entries for the same drink (or variants), but it aspires to have the earliest listing, and that generally gets you in the ballpark. You can even sort the entire database by year.