Alaska

Gin, yellow Chartreuse, and orange bitters — published in Straub's 1914 guide and Craddock's 1930 Savoy Book, the name from the 1896 Klondike Gold Rush.

The Alaska Cocktail is a pre-Prohibition gin preparation that pairs gin with yellow Chartreuse and orange bitters — a combination of considerable aromatic complexity that appeared in Jacques Straub's 1914 reference Drinks and was later included in Harry Craddock's The Savoy Cocktail Book (1930). Its name was almost certainly inspired by the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896–1899, which made the territory of Alaska and Canada's Yukon one of the most discussed places in the English-speaking world. The discovery of gold in the Klondike River tributary on August 16, 1896, triggered a mass migration of prospectors from Seattle, San Francisco, and Vancouver through the passes and waterways of interior Alaska — an event that generated enormous press coverage and popular fascination with the frozen north through the late 1890s and early 1900s. Alaska-themed cocktails, foods, and products proliferated during this period as marketers capitalized on the territory's cultural visibility. Yellow Chartreuse, produced by Carthusian monks at the Grande Chartreuse monastery using a formula involving 130 herbs, plants, and flowers, is bottled at 40% ABV — lower and sweeter than the 55% green expression, with honey and saffron notes predominating over the green's more herbal intensity. In the Alaska, the yellow Chartreuse's warm, honeyed character balances the gin's botanicals and the orange bitters' citrus in a drink that is simultaneously aromatic, spirit-forward, and complex.