Stinger

The Stinger is generally traced to the pre-Prohibition era, with most accounts placing its creation in New York around the 1890s to the early 1910s. The usual account credits Herman, head bartender at New York's Hotel Bartholdi, with serving cognac and crème de menthe as the Bartholdi Cocktail around 1890. Over the next two decades the drink surfaced under other names, among them the Judge and the Brant, and around 1913 it caught on as the Stinger. Reginald Vanderbilt made them for his friends, but claims that he invented the drink are unlikely, and who first mixed it remains undocumented.

By the 1920s and 1930s, the Stinger, made from brandy and white crème de menthe, had become a fixture of after-dinner drinking, noted in period drink writing as one of the most popular cocktails of its day before falling out of common use for much of the later 20th century.