The 100,000th Sourtoe Cocktail at the Downtown Hotel, a Coast Hotel, was served in Dawson City this summer.
Just in case you’re unfamiliar with this famously grisly tipple, it all began in 1973 when a local – Captain Dick Stevenson – discovered a preserved toe in an old prospecting cabin. Turns out the former owner of the toe was a gold miner/bootlegger named Louie Liken who had parted company with his big toe sometime during Prohibition. Stevenson’s inspiration for the drink came from the “The Ballad of the Ice-Worm Cocktail” by Robert Service.
