Grateful Dead Drink is the ultimate party starter. The irony is that it makes you gratefully dead but literally alive, capable of enjoying every bit of the moment. Wait! Did I just justify its name?

In 1934—just one heady year after Prohibition was repealed—Esquire magazine, in a civic-minded attempt to reestablish the norms of a long dormant drinking culture, published a list of 10 Worst Drinks ...