In the 1910s, I was one of the worlds most influential bartenders, tending bar at the prestigious St. Louis Country Club, wowing fans – including presidents – with my signature cocktails. Some people even say that I wrote the book on cocktail recipes. (And thats not far from the truth.)

In 1917, I published The Ideal Bartender, one of the most influential cocktail recipe books of all time.

Thats right, at a time when a Black man could hardly walk into a white bar, I was the reigning king. I was not only allowed IN the bar, but people came to the bar FOR me in order to sample my cocktails, shake my hand, and get me to sign my book for them. (Actually, I was the first Black American to publish a cocktail recipe book.)

AS PROOF OF MY IMPECCABLE TASTE,my Old Tom Gin is imported from a two-centuries-old London distiller. And, in keeping with my reputation for creating distinctive cocktails with exotic fruit, my gin is delicately infused with the peel of a curious Chinese citrus called Sweet Lime.