A cocktail’s story—where it came from, how it was first made—is almost never easy to pin down. Such it is with the Bramble. There’s no mystery to unravel, no microfiche to page through. It was, like ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Delish has declared the cocktail of the summer to be Naked & Famous, but for me, it’s the humble Bramble.

In this column I put a new twist on a classic cocktail each month. Those classics usually date from the very early part of the 20th century, having evolved around the Jazz Age, with its need to ...