So many explanations in different parts of the world about the origin of the term of the cocktail, but have no relation satisfactory.
The term cocktail may be refers to the slaughter when seeing the colorful resulting from mixing alcoholic beverages with colored beverage. Stanley Clisby Arthur in the Famous New Orleans Books and How to Mix 'Em' tells about French refugees named Antoine Amedie Peychaud who settled in New Orleans in 1793. Peychaud is a practicing pharmacist who also makes your own Drift Bector.
He scrapsed the pain of stomachache in the form of Bitters and Brendy mixed in the egg cup (French: Coquetier). For the American ears, Coquetier is heard as "cocktails".
Other possibilities, the term cocktail comes from the egg cuxt (Coquetier) used as serving drinks by the New Orleans at the early 19th of the 19th. According to a popular story, the cocktail creator is the primary lady of the bar. His name is Betsy Flanagan. In 1779, he served a drink of the roar of tall chicken (English: "cocktail") as French series. The chicken tail was revoked from the neighbor's chicken.
This story is denied by William Grimes explaining in the Straight book up on OPS. The Cultural History of American DRINK that Betsy Flanagan is fiction figures in the story of the Spy by James Fenimore Cooper.
Almost similar to the story of Betsy Flanagan, another story tells the term of the cocktail created in the war of the American Revolution. The dried shop at not farm Yorktown, New York was visited by the American and French Sesterds who had under the command of George Washington and Marquis de Lafayette. American series dietly drinks whiskey or gin, but instead of French soldiers enjoyed wine or vermouth.
If the night is late, the soldiers mix each other drinks in the glass before toast. A soldier steals the male chicken from a neighbor's house who is believed to be a supporter of George from England.
Once cooked, the male chicken was eaten bustling, and his tail feature was made into a drink decoration. When toast, they shout, "Vive le Cocktail!" ("Living the chicken tail of the chicken!"), And the drinks are the extraction of the cocktail.
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