World Cup Cocktails: Group B
One of the reasons I enjoy international competitions like World Cup is the opportunity to lace both humor & drink-mixing with history:
This is Spain's worst defeat since 1588.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) June 13, 2014
He’s referencing the defeat at the Spanish Armada at the hands of English (and Dutch) naval forces. Naturally. This little tete-a-tete was a part of the broad, bloody epic of the Eighty Years’ War, a continent-spanning conflict that was ostensibly about Protestant Netherlands revolting against Catholic Spain.
If you look closely, you’ll see a Van Persie launching cannonballs with his head.
What better way to celebrate the Netherlands dispensing a revenge-fueled soccer beatdown against highly-favored Spain than with a cocktail? If we’re going to build a drink that pays homage to these two belligerents, it’s only fitting that we build it around their nationalistic alcohols: genever and sherry.