Before the Negroni: The Milano-Torino & Americano

Into The Barchive · Sep 17, 2026 · 30m · transcript

Before the Negroni became one of the world's most iconic cocktails, two simpler Italian drinks helped lay the foundation. This week on Into The Barchive, hosts Tim Wright and Dr. Blake Jones travel back to 19th-century Italy to explore the history of the Milano-Torino and the Americano—two cocktails that helped shape the country's aperitivo culture and forever changed the way we drink.

The guys begin by exploring Italy's growing café culture, where gathering for a drink before dinner became an important social tradition. They dig into the origins of two essential Italian ingredients: sweet…