Old Pal

The Old Pal is Harry McElhone’s Negroni Variation first published in his ABC’s Of Mixing Cocktails in 1922. Famously, McElhone was the proprietor of Harry’s American Bar in Paris and created a secret society of Barflies that may persist to this day. I still want to be the guy that opens the North American Chapter of Barflies. McElhone credits the inspiration for this drink to Paris Journalist William Robertson. His Old Pal.