Mekhong (spirit) was newly produced in 1941. Despite being known as a whisky, Mekhong is much more a rum. The distilled spirit is made from 95 percent sugar cane/molasses and five percent rice. The distilled spirit is then blended with indigenous herbs and spices to produce its aroma and taste. Mekhong is distilled, blended, and bottled at the Bangyikhan Distillery on the outskirts of Bangkok. It contains 35 percent alcohol by volume, and it is used in a cocktail called the "Thai Sabai". Mekhong Whisky is mentioned several times on the album "Hell's Ditch" by The Pogues, along with other common Thai
Death in the Afternoon (cocktail) Death in the Afternoon (cocktail) Death in the Afternoon, also called the Hemingway or the Hemingway Champagne, is a cocktail made up of absinthe and Champagne, invented by Ernest Hemingway. The cocktail shares a name with Hemingway's book "Death in the Afternoon", and the recipe was published in "So Red the Nose, or Breath in the Afternoon", 1935 cocktail book with contributions from famous authors. Hemingway's original instructions were: "Pour one jigger absinthe into a Champagne glass. Add iced Champagne until it attains the proper opalescent milkiness. Drink three to five of these slowly." It is claimed that the cocktail