Mamie Taylor
From The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails
is a highball made with scotch whisky, ginger beer, and lime juice, created in 1898 by “an obscure bartender at Ontario Beach,” near Rochester, New York, as tribute to an actress of that name who was appearing there. See Highball and ginger ale and ginger beer. The drink enjoyed enormous popularity from 1900 until Prohibition.See also Presbyterian; Moscow Mule; and whisky, scotch.
“Origin of the ‘Mamie Taylor.’ ” New York Morning Telegram, July 12, 1900.See Highball, ginger ale, ginger beer.See also Presbyterian; Moscow Mule;, whisky, scotch.
This definition is from The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails, edited by David Wondrich (Editor-in-Chief) and Noah Rothbaum (Associate Editor).