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When considering the origins of the mixed drink it may strike many at first as a curious concept. After all, hasn’t mankind been at this enterprise of creating spirits for centuries, and would that not carry with it the natural progression of concocting mixed potables using these products? To a degree, yes but really it appears to have been little more than incorporating an element here and there. Maybe a fruit would be added to a glass, or possibly some other available elixir could have been employed.