2024-05-03T08:31:46-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/124744663/boozy-blueprints-the-u-s-forest-service-s-cocktail-construction-chart Archinect 2015-04-07T14:51:00-04:00 >2015-04-13T19:30:20-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/7r/7rq5jpmlt0fq8zoz.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Earlier this week, venerable miscellany repository Kottke stumbled across a curious item in a section of the National Archives Catalog pertaining to the U.S. Forest Service: a precisely rendered and impressively illustrated 1974 document, titled Cocktail Construction Chart that meticulously detailed how to serve up various mixed drinks. [...] Esquire phoned up the agency to find out how this cool, but bizarre, part of our nation's history came to be.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Click <a href="http://cdn.archinect.net/uploads/7r/7rq5jpmlt0fq8zoz.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> for a larger version of the chart.</p>