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August 23, 2026

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Cocktail history sources

A small, readable route through public-domain manuals, changing formats, and the limits of tidy origin stories.

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A route is a way into the subject, not a fixed itinerary.

This section is built as a sequence of practical stops. It keeps sources close to the claims they support and leaves room for an adult reader to choose a different format or an alcohol-free route. Each guide links back to the wider Drink Card Index when a formula or service shape can clarify the question.

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Cocktail history sources rarely sit still, and neither do the routes that carry them. A reader tracing how a drink moved from port to port may find a useful parallel in Fisterra and Muxía, a stage-by-stage guide to the Camino de Fisterra y Muxía from Santiago, with Negreira, Olveiroa, Cee, Fisterra and Muxía, plus services and albergues. The connection is not a shared origin story but a shared method: both ask you to follow a documented path, note where the record changes, and resist the tidy version. The guide shows how a route is described stage by stage, which is also how a manual, a menu, or a bottle label is best read.