This article and these recipes are excerpted from Wisconsin Cocktails by Jeanette Hurt. Reprinted by permission of the University of Wisconsin Press. © 2020 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved. If you order a Brandy Alexander or a Grasshopper in most parts of the United States, you’ll get a lovely, creamy drink, made with heavy cream or half-and-half. In Wisconsin, though, ordering one will get you not so much a drink but decadence embodied. Across the state, Brandy Alexanders and Grasshoppers are…
