Hong Kong highball bar recalls Prohibition-era Chicago mayor with boilermaker cocktail

Consumption of cocktails can be intended to signal sophistication. The dry martini, for example, suggests classic elegance – James Bond would wear a tuxedo to sip one.The boilermaker, not so much. Its connota­tions are more blue collar than white tie. But, given that the term can apply to an order for a shot of whiskey with a beer chaser, or simply to the act of pouring the spirit into the beer, does it even qualify as a cocktail?It’s a surprise therefore to find that it is one of the signature…