When we say the roaring 20s you might think Art Deco, Great Gatsby parties and girls in flapper dresses.

Maybe you also think of dark speakeasy's overflowing with bootleg champagne and whiskey.

But in reality, this era was not a glamorous time for American alcohol, especially cocktails.

Beneath the facade of all that jazz age glitz and glamour was prohibition, where most people drink bathtub gin and smuggled hooch.

Distilleries shuttered, organized crime emerged, and bartenders fled America to continue

their craft abroad.

But the cocktail would carry on in places like Cuba, Europe and beyond.

And that's where we're taking you today, where two cocktail classics, the

bees knees and the Bloody Mary, trace their roots. Today on 100 proof, The Age of Prohibition.

It's an age of cocktail innovation happening in unlikely places under unlikely circumstances. I'm Tony Tipton Martin, Chin Chin.

Hi, I'm Joe Gitter.

Hi, I'm a senior editor on the Books team at America's Test Kitchen.

I'm also the host of Joe versus the Test Kitchen on YouTube.

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