THE BROWN'S BAR BARCASTS. This is the first of a barcast series called "New York and the Cocktail" that traces the cocktail's development in New York from the 1780s to 1820s, with demonstrations by historian Dave Wondrich and mixologist Michael Waterhouse on making classics from the period. Click here to download video podcast as an .MOV file.

The cocktail turned 200 on 13 May 2006 and mixologists from around the world reveled. In the first vodcast broadcast At Brown's Bar, here's what folks in Sydney, Australia did to celebrate the first time the word "cocktail" was defined in print in a small newspaper from Hudson, New York. Thanks to Mark Ward of Yakusan for sending us this footage. Click here to download video podcast as an .MOV file.