I finished reading Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises today and by the end of the book was really distracted by the number of alcoholic beverages that Jake was consuming. It’s understandable — war veteran, likely impotent, repeatedly heartbroken by Lady Ashley …. it might take a few bottles of this or that to serve as a buffer between him and his disappointments. He drinks 3 martinis and orders 5 bottles of wine (and drinks at least 3 of those) in the last 2 pages of the book.
The following are the types of drinks that Jake ordered, poured, drank, or finished during the several weeks of travel between Paris and Spain:
- fine a l’eau (brandy with water)
- whiskey and soda
- pernod
- various unidentified wines
- “the liqueurs”
- beer
- congac
- brandy and soda
- Jack Rose
- port
- brandy
- champagne
- “a drink,” unidentified
- Chablis
- wine from leather bottles
- hot rum punch
- vermouth
- sherry
- Fundador (brandy)
- absinthe
- vieux marc
- martinis
- rioja alta
