11/05/2026
Every year, May 13 is World Cocktail Day.
It goes back to 1806. That May, a newspaper in New York wrote down what “cocktail” meant for the first time: spirits, sugar, water, and bitters. Just a few words, but they gave bartending something that could be understood and passed on.
In 2006 — exactly 200 years later — the Museum of the American Cocktail made it World Cocktail Day. Not to celebrate the invention of any particular drink, but to mark the moment it was written down. From that point on, bartending was no longer just a craft passed by word of mouth. It became knowledge.
This year is 2026. 220 years.
Reply Bar wants to do one thing: make a few drinks, carefully, on this day.
No recreations. No retro themes. Just standing where we are today, using today’s ways, to respond to the things that took 220 years to reach our bar. Every drink is a bartender’s take on time — proportions, temperature, touch, and that small judgment of what a guest might want right now.
Those things are written in recipes as steps. Behind the bar, they’re daily practice.
World Cocktail Day at Reply Bar · May 13–17.
If you happen to be around, stop in for a drink. Consider it a pause for this 220-year journey.