When researching the cocktail, I questioned weather the cocktail wasn’t originally some sort of 50’s liquid tie-in associated with the coming of the Hi-Fi age. You know, cocktail dress wearing gals along with sport-jacketed fellas gathered around Jim’s new record player, toasting to this nifty new technology. “Wow…it’s like Sinatra’s in the room.” Hard to find a creation date, the Loud Speaker drank well and filled my mind with more 50’s romantic notions … all ‘til the boob I was drinking with had his fourth and it dawned on me that the long dead bartender was more likely making a statement aimed at a drunk’s tendency to get obnoxiously louder with each bending of the elbow. “SHUT-UP and DRINK YOUR DRINK YOUR DRINK, YOU LOUD… SPEAKER, YOU”

For all I know, this drink’s 5000 years old.

Here we go –

• ¾ oz Gin
• 1 oz Brandy
• ¼ oz lemon juice

Shake with ice in a shaker ‘til c-c-c-cold, strain into cocktail glass with a lemon peel for garnish.

Tags: Brandy

Cocktail Recipes, Gin.