Scofflaw

Named for the word coined during Prohibition to shame liquor-law breakers, this gin-forward bar wears the insult proudly.

Getting in

Front door beneath the gin-bottle sign.

Order this

Scofflaw cocktail

Your passport

Prohibition Original rooms like this one are catalogued across the trail — see every prohibition original bar.

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The Gear Room

Harry Craddock's 1930 compendium, written while America was dry and London was not.

The best history of the American bar before Prohibition closed it. Jerry Thomas as protagonist.

How a country talked itself into the dry years, and how it climbed back out.

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