But, per the lore, many of the classic drinks that emerged from the Prohibition era (1920 to 1933) were inspired by utility: masking the taste of pungent, largely undrinkable homemade bathtub gin ...

Prohibition began in the United States in ... They created homemade ‘moonshine’ or “bathtub gin” and smuggled it into cities and bars. Some bars became ‘speakeasies’ ...