What is a cocktail umbrella?

Anyone who has ever ordered a tropical or fruit cocktail, especially in the Polynesian bar, most likely met with a strange small paper decoration known as a cocktail umbrella. The cocktail umbrella generally consists of wooden or divided bamboo skewers, several cardboard ribs and a colorful piece of Japanese art paper.

After mixing certain types of frozen or mixed cocktails, the bartender of the canopy of the cocktail umbrella is opened and placed it in a glass as a colored ornament. The small ring around the skewer generally holds the cocktail umbrella open when the recipient sipping the drink through the straw.

believe it or not, the cocktail umbrella has at least one practical function. Drinks served outside, especially in a real tropical environment, tend to melt very quickly in the sun. The large cocktail umbrella, also known as paper parasol, reduces the amount of sunlight reaching ice inside the cold alcoholic mixture. In placees where can a customerI can switch between the indoor and outdoor locations, the cocktail umbrella can really use.

There are people who suggest that a cocktail umbrella also prevent volatile spirits such as rum, which evaporates too quickly. It is assumed that alcohol vapors are trapped under a cocktail umbrella, so when the consumer moves it aside to take a sip, the aromatic gases reach his nose. This theory can only be a wishful wish, but a large cocktail umbrella can actually catch alcoholic molecules when they evaporate.

The true origin of the cocktail umbrella is a bit murky, but some of them have theorized that small umbrellas could have been created by indigenous Polynesian as symbolic gifts to the gods. In Asian and Polynesian countries, many other representatives are commonly found. The use of paper parasols to protect alcoholic beverages of May began as native polynésians welcomeIf the business of foreign captains and their crews.

According to folk rumors, the first cocktail umbrellas used for decorative purposes appeared on the legendary tropically thematic nightclub called Trader Vic's in 1932. However, the owner of the vic trader claimed that he co -opted the idea of ​​an earlier Polynesian bar called Ed's Beacher. The appearance of the umbrella of cocktails and other complicated ornaments coincided with the increase in the popularity of cocktails among customers. Many of the more sophisticated recipes of cocktails that are used today came from friendly competition among the bars to attract more female customers.

There are plans to create domestic cocktail umbrellas, but most commercial paper umbrellas are produced in Asian countries. While Japanese art paper is often used for a canopy of cocktail umbrella, manufacturers often use Chinese newspapers as cheap accompanying material. This Practice created a city legend about hidden reports placed UVNITER cocktail umbrellas. Unfortunately, most cocktail umbrellas contain only fragments of Chinese weather or other secular objects, not inspiring or mystical words of wisdom.