The Scoff-law Cocktail
The word “Scofflaw” has come to mean “A person who flouts the law, especially an unsustainable one.” But such was not always the case. I...
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The Mexican Eagle
Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention. That’s not quite exact. Limits are. When one is out of one’s preferred spirits, has no citrus stock...
Margarita, Won’t You Come to My Party?
For those interested in the recipe for the gallon of Margaritas which was consumed at my party yesterday, I used Jeffrey Morgenthaler’s recipe from A Gall...
Naval Stores
Until Firefox gets the hang of tracking paths through the browser history, I can’t quite say exactly who started this idea in motion, but I can say what d...
Bloody Mary is the … Girl I Love
Happy 3rd Birthday, No. 2 Son! Soon we’ll have the family over for a party in your honor, and they’ll be drinking some stuff you can’t, yet. I...
Spirits of Any Kind
Now that I have more than two bitters in the house, let us try something. A cocktail is spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters. How about an Old-Fashion...
What Fashion of Gimlet Might This Be?
Having acquired an essential ingredient in the Deadrise, I find myself without another: the cucumber. Well, there’s nothing to it then but to make the nec...
The Cosmopolitan
Girlfriend, I present for your classy enjoyment the Cosmopolitan. Or, rather, a variation thereof since I don’t stock citrus vodka. The Cosmopolitan 1 1/2...
Spiced Bourbon
Using the spiced syrup from the Honeycrisp Apple cocktail, make a variation of the Old Fashioned. I’ve drunk the following with both Evan Williams and Tut...
Honeycrisp Apple
The recipe below is from Gotham Bar & Grill, by way of Tuthilltown Spirits. I substituted Harvest Spirits’s Core Vodka and Cornelius Applejack instead...
The Wise Sage
James Frederic Rose, of the Temple Bar, New York, has come up with a tasty way to drain one’s bottle of Harvest Spirits‘s Core Vodka. I have misplac...
Old Fashioned Variation
Substitute applejack for the bourbon. Old Fashioned Variation In an old fashioned, or rocks, glass place a half cube of sugar. Soak the sugar with two to three ...
Johnny Chapman
It’s a real pleasure to have friends over for dinner and cocktails. Last night was just such an occasion. I prepared a short cocktail menu of seasonal dri...
A Spirit, Sugar, Water, and Bitters
This week I have been concentrating on the Old Fashioned, varying which bourbon I use, which bitters, which garnish, and the balance of sugar and water. I shoul...
The Gimlet
The Gimlet is one of those drinks, like the martini, where there’s a question of what the correct proportions are. CocktailDB uses a 2:1 ratio of gin to R...
A Highland Fling
Suppose you’ve become infatuated with Rob Roy Rob Roy Stir in mixing glass with ice & strain 1 3/4 oz Scotch (5 cl, 7/16 gills) 3/4 oz sweet vermouth...
Not a Malibu® St. Lawrence Lemonade
Some friends of ours had us over for dinner last night, and, having heard of my hobby, asked me to come up with something to drink. The guideline was simple &md...