THE EVOLUTION OF BAR STRAINERS 🍸🏴‍☠️🍍 Behind every clean cocktail pour, there’s over a century of technical evolution. The earliest bar strainer was the Julep strainer, used in the mid-19th century. A simple perforated spoon, it sat inside the mixing glass to hold back ice. No spring. No mechanism. Just control. In 1892, everything changed. The Hawthorne strainer was patented in the United States. With its circular spring coil, it adapted perfectly to the Boston shaker and allowed tighter fil