Other than the Jet Pilot, would there be any other aerospace themed cocktails specifically related to the Space Age? Just as Ancient Mariner was a great tiki drink, are there any other tiki or space age cocktails? Saturn also comes to mind. I know of Brother Cleve’s Stardust which I had the pleasure of him preparing for me in Boston before he passed, but I am looking for more classic/vintage examples of cocktails within this realm for an article. Any guidance/help is much appreciated, thanks!
Test Pilot
Ace Pilot
Chimp in Orbit
Coconaut
New Day [maybe]
Planet of the Apes
The Universe
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Those are just tiki drinks. There are more from the cocktails side. Many aren’t particularly distinctive drinks on which a timely name is slapped.
Nuclear Daiquiri
Atomic Bomb
Arnaud’s Atom Bomb
Pan Am Airways Cocktail
Up in the Air
Air France
Airmail
Sky Pilot
Sputnik
Moon Walk
etc.
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Space Needle
Saturn (named after the rocket)
Astro Aku Aku
H Bomb (not Tiki, but found in Stan Jones’ book)
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Maxwell DuBrow, Cocktails for Two Thousand, 1951:
(DuBrow worked at the Elizabeth Norman restaurant in NYC)
“A” Bomb
Air Force Special
“H” Bomb (different from Jones’: Bénédictine, brandy, apple brandy, curaçao, lemon)
“Happy Landing”
Jet Propulsion
Tail Spin
In his 1954 King Cocktail Shakes Again, Eddie Clarke had the Comet, named after the British airliner, with brandy, grapefruit juice, Van Der Hum and Angostura, a very fine drink if you can get the VDH.
Walt McChrystal’s 1955 Drinkable Drinks offers the Jet Assist, with gin, lemon and Parfait Amour.
There are others.
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Interesting for this thread, the Saturn was originally named the X-15, but soon after the drink debuted, an X-15 crashed, killing its pilot, so Galsini changed the name.
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These are all great, many of them I’ve never heard of. I should have been more specific and mentioned that I was looking especially for midcentury cocktails popular in that era.
@Splificator lists “A Bomb”, is this the one listed in the COCKTAILS App? It also references it as 1951 but Newark’s proximity to Manhattan could have been popular in this region and/or its popularity could have traveled across the river.
