Cohasset Punch

08/23/2026

It’s almost mesmerizing watching those Cohasset Punch bottles make their way down the line, don’t you think? Another batch of the good stuff is in the books — many thanks to the team at Catalyst Distilling for making it happen!

08/16/2026

Happy National Rum Day! Rum was America’s spirit of choice in its early years, and the best of those rums was made in Medford, Massachusetts. Old Medford Rum also provided the base for the first batches of Chicago’s famous Cohasset Punch, before it abruptly disappeared in the early 1900s.

08/10/2026

Bonfort’s Wine & Spirit Circular was America’s leading liquor trade journal from 1871-1919, and in 1902 published a definitive account of the popularity explosion Cohasset Punch enjoyed in its earliest days in Gilded Age Chicago. The first bottles of Cohasset Punch were sold just three years prior, and it started as a bar specialty of the Williams & Newman saloon only a couple years before that.

08/07/2026

Happy ! August 7th marks the day in 1789 when Congress approved an Act for the support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers. Since 1899, Cohasset Punch has included an image of Minot’s Ledge Light, located off the coast of the towns of Cohasset and Scituate, Massachusetts (despite the punch being a Chicago brand).

07/22/2026

Join us tomorrow, July 23 at Vitalogy on Dearborn for a Rum Lover’s Happy Hour from 6-8pm, with drinks featuring Chicago Cane Cooperative and Cohasset Punch!

Chicago Cane Cooperative is one of the world’s first worker-owned spirits producers and Chicagoland’s only distiller dedicated exclusively to delicious and affordable rum.

Cohasset Punch is a blend of rum, wine, and fruit with notes of cherry, stone fruit, and citrus. Created in Chicago in the 1890s and revived in 2024, it can be enjoyed on its own, with a mixer, or in a cocktail.

Come try some delicious cocktails and celebrate Chicago’s rum scene!

07/18/2026

New article about Cohasset Punch from Tasting Table! Though we have a few minor quibbles — first, what is that drink in the cover photo? Looks good, but it’s not Cohasset Punch!

Also, though it’s often repeated that Cohasset Punch is a simple mix of “rum, vermouth, orange bitters, and canned peaches” (from an unauthorized recipe first published in 1901), this is neither supported by contemporary accounts nor the drink’s many fans we’ve consulted who enjoyed it for decades.

Cohasset Punch vanished from Chicago bars for decades, but this classic rum, peach, and vermouth cocktail is making a comeback and is now available for sale.

07/17/2026

Sometimes, making these cocktail videos gets a little messier than we bargained for...😂

07/16/2026

Another heat dome over Chicago means we’re taking our drinks frozen! A simple “Cohasset Freeze” can be made by blending Cohasset Punch with simple syrup, lemon juice, and ice, but if you’ve got access to a slushie machine you can dress it up even further with tea, peach purée, and cherry juice for even more flavor. We recorded this before today’s wildfire smoke set in — maybe switch to a Lapsang Souchong for the tea? Stay cool! 🧊🍹✨

Cohasset Slushie
• ½ cup Cohasset Punch
• 1 cup black tea
• 2 tbsp demerara or raw sugar
• 2 tbsp lemon juice
• 1 tbsp peach purée
• 1 tbsp tart cherry juice

Mix in a slushie machine on the coldest setting.