Hartley Imported Brandy • Pineapple

America’s First Cocktail Before there was a company there was a drink. Antoine Peychaud a Creole immigrant operated a pharmacy on the French Quarter’s Royal Street in 1838. With his background as an apothecary he was a natural mixologist. His friends would gather for late-night revelry at his pharmacy. Peychaud would mix brandy absinthe and a dash of his secret bitters for his guests. Later this quaff would come to be known as the Sazerac. The Bar After the drink there was the bar. The cocktail immediately spread in popularity at the city’s finest coffee houses which was the term for drinking establishments during the mid-1800s. However the cocktail is most strongly associated with the wildly popular Sazerac Coffee House located on Exchange Alley. In 1850 the owner Sewell Taylor institutionalized the drink at his coffee house by using only Sazerac de Forge et Fils brandy which he imported and sold exclusively. The Sazerac cocktail received its name from this coffee house wh