Cohasset Punch

Cohasset Punch Rich and complex flavor with history going back to the 1890s—the rebirth of a Chicago classic! 21+

Having trouble finding dad something for Father’s Day this year? Get him a sweet sip of an old Chicago tradition! ...
06/18/2026

Having trouble finding dad something for Father’s Day this year? Get him a sweet sip of an old Chicago tradition!

06/16/2026

Let’s try an ice cream drink from 1979!

Bar Manager Dave Flanigen from Coles in Buffalo, NY came up with this one almost 50 years ago for a Mr. Boston cocktail competition. We uncovered the ingredients in an old issue of The Buffalo News — which also reported that this drink took home first prize!

Cole’s Raspberry Dream
Created by Dave Flanigen, 1979
• ½ cup (approx. 2 scoops) Raspberry Ice Cream or Sherbet
• ¼ cup (2 oz) Raspberry Yogurt
• 3 tbsp Whipped Cream
• 1½ oz Cohasset Punch
• ¾ oz Crème de Cacao
• ¼ oz Grenadine
Blend thoroughly, top with whipped cream.

seems like a good time to remind everyone that Cohasset Punch makes an excellent sub for your sweet vermouth in a Manh...
06/14/2026

seems like a good time to remind everyone that Cohasset Punch makes an excellent sub for your sweet vermouth in a Manhattan. I prefer it in a 1:1 proportion instead of the standard 2:1 to suit the higher ABV and lower sweetness of the Cohasset Punch relative to vermouth. Cohasset Punch brings a wonderful fruit-forward note to a Manhattan that you will absolutely want to try.

Manhattan of the Midwest
• 1½ oz Judson & Moore Distillery Red Corn Bourbon
• 1½ oz Cohasset Punch
• 1 dash Angostura Bitters
• 1 dash Peychaud’s Bitters
Stir with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, and garnish with cocktail cherries.

(You can also try it with rye if you like your Manhattans with a little more spice, but today isn’t National Rye Day.)

Today, June 13, is Tom Newman’s 174th Birthday! Tom Newman is credited for first creating—and naming!—Cohasset Punch. Bo...
06/13/2026

Today, June 13, is Tom Newman’s 174th Birthday! Tom Newman is credited for first creating—and naming!—Cohasset Punch.

Born in Westchester County, New York, Newman moved to St. Louis in 1872 to manage the bar at the new Laclede Hotel (demolished in 1961 to make way for Kiener Plaza). He later managed the bar at St. Louis’ Windsor Club, and moved to Chicago in 1877 to manage a bar on Madison Street in the central business district. In 1885, he founded the “Williams & Newman” bar at Madison & Dearborn with Lewis Williams.

According to a 1902 issue of “Bonfort’s Wine & Spirit Circular,” one summer (c. 1897) Newman received a telegram from his business partner Williams, vacationing in Cohasset, Massachusetts. Williams requested a mixed drink that would “surpass anything ever before imbibed by any living soul,” and within 24 hours, Newman loaded a cask of his new punch onto a railcar bound for Cohasset. Upon tasting the new concoction, Williams asked for the name of the new drink, and Newman simply wired back the name “Cohasset”. Upon Williams’ return to Chicago, the two began selling “Cohasset Punch” at their bar, and began bottling for distribution in 1899.

Tom Newman retired in 1916 and died in 1928. Happy birthday, Tom Newman!

06/11/2026

Hot summer nights call for frozen treats! The Cohasset Freeze takes the unmistakeable cherry, stone fruit and citrus flavors of Cohasset Punch and blends it into a chilly summertime slushie.

Cohasset Freeze
• ½ cup Cohasset Punch
• 1½ oz Simple Syrup
• 1 oz Lemon Juice
• 1¼ cups Water (Slushie Machine) or 2 cups Crushed Ice (Blender)

Great to have Cohasset Punch featured in the “Brunch & Bubbles” class at Bitter & Sweet Cocktail Boutique in Arlington H...
06/08/2026

Great to have Cohasset Punch featured in the “Brunch & Bubbles” class at Bitter & Sweet Cocktail Boutique in Arlington Heights this past weekend!

06/05/2026

The North Shore Line Skokie Valley Route officially opened 100 years ago, on June 5, 1926. A portion of the line exists today as the Chicago Transit Authority Yellow Line. While you explore this bit of Chicago transit history, check out some Chicago cocktail history at the Binny's Beverage Depot a few steps from the Yellow Line Dempster Street Terminal. Cohasset Punch is a blend of rum, wine, and fruit popular in Chicago in the early-20th century, which has now been revived for a new generation!

Head down to Woven+Bound at the Marriott Marquis Chicago and try their new summer cocktail menu, including my personal f...
06/03/2026

Head down to Woven+Bound at the Marriott Marquis Chicago and try their new summer cocktail menu, including my personal favorite, “The Red Line,” featuring Cohasset Punch blended with cognac, lemon, house-made Pomegranate grenadine and Maraschino liqueur.

06/02/2026

You can enjoy Cohasset Punch in a spritz or in a cocktail…or, you can just add ice! Cohasset Punch since the 1890s has typically been served stirred with ice and strained into a cocktail glass.

05/31/2026

The “Little Harbor” is bright and refreshing—a vodka soda kissed with tart lime and the rich stone fruit flavors of Cohasset Punch. You’ll never look at a vodka soda the same way again!

Little Harbor
• 1½ oz KOVAL Distillery Vodka
• ¾ oz Cohasset Punch
• ½ oz Fresh Lime Juice
• 3 oz Seltzer / Club Soda

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