If you’re sticking to beer to avoid looking girly, you might want to take a peek at these guys. Then go and drink whatever you fancy!
Bashful blokes are avoiding drinking cocktails for fear of being mocked, as the Daily Star revealed yesterday. But are they missing a trick? History is full of testosterone-fuelled stars who preferred a more complicated beverage.
From Manhattans to martinis, many classics are practically style icons in their own right. Now we reveal the men who made drinking cocktails cool…
Shaken, not stirred: Is it even James Bond if he’s not sipping a Vesper martini?
The superspy’s cocktail of choice is so important, author Ian Fleming even gave us the recipe. It’s made with three measures of gin, one of vodka and half a measure of Lillet – a French aperitif.
Surprising Bond did so much driving, really.
Ernest as hell: Author Ernest Hemingway loved fishing, boozing and bare-knuckle fighting. And when it came to rum, he preferred it with sugar and a sprig of mint.
As well as mojitos, he also liked the daiquiris served at Floridita’s bar in Havana, Cuba. Being well ‘ard, he took them “without sugar and double rum.”
Burning Bridges: There’s surely nothing cooler than Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski (1998).
As bowling-obsessed slacker The Dude, his “go with the flow” attitude and chunky knitwear have since inspired Dudeism – a full-blown religion.
But could he have managed it without the nine white Russians he drinks over the course of the film?
Great Scott! Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald brought the roaring 20s to life in books like The Great Gatsby.
He was famed for his own wild behaviour, once getting kicked out of a New York hotel for doing handstands in the lobby.
And his cocktail of choice was the gin rickey, apparently because it was hard to smell on his breath.
Old fashioned fun: Sharp-suited ad man Don Draper (Jon Hamm) is the epitome of 50s cool – right down to his signature drink.
The Mad Men protagonist favours an old fashioned, preferably served with a glamorous companion before dinner.
One of the world’s first cocktails, the recipe is said to date back to 1880.
Road to nowhere: Hipster Jack Kerouac became a cult hero for his rambling, drug-fuelled novel On The Road.
When he couldn’t get Benzedrine, he washed down his jazz and debauchery with a mezcal margarita.
Sadly, his wild lifestyle caught up with him and he died of cirrhosis of the liver, aged just 47, in 1969.
Gun downed: Humphrey Bogart puts his love of cocktails to good use in cinema classic Casablanca (1942).
His character, Dirk, is standing in a bar when his ex-girlfriend turns up on the arm of a Nazi officer.
So he orders a French 75 – a champagne drink named after a French artillery gun – to show them both what he thinks of them.
Sling shots: Writer Hunter S. Thompson was so rock n’ roll, his ashes were shot out of a cannon at his 2005 funeral. “He loved explosions,” wife Anita explained.
He also loved Singapore slings, necking dozens as alter ego Raoul Duke in his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Hulk out: If you still need convincing that cocktails are manly, bear this in mind: the late Hulk Hogan was a fan of pina coladas.
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