Corpse Revivers: Cocktails Made to Raise the Dead

Into The Barchive · Oct 29, 2026 · 26m · transcript

This week on Into The Barchive, Tim Wright and Dr. Blake Jones are raising the dead just in time for Halloween with one of cocktail history’s most appropriately named families of drinks: the Corpse Reviver.

But the Corpse Reviver wasn’t originally one specific cocktail. The name began as a broader term for a morning restorative—a “hair of the dog” meant to revive someone after a long night of drinking. Over time, that loose category evolved into a collection of recipes, including the two versions that became famous through Harry Craddock’s 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book.

Tim and Blake make both of…