Booty Call

3 oz Watermelon (small chunks)
2 oz Vodka
3⁄4 oz Elderflower liqueur, St. Germain
3⁄4 oz Lemon juice
3⁄4 oz Rosemary syrup
Instructions

Add all ingredients to an iced filled shaker. Shake and stain into an iced filled collins glass. Garnish with a watermelon wedge.

Notes

Rosemary syrup:
1:1 water to sugar ratio. Add a few springs fresh rosemary. Boil for 3 minutes. Strain when cooled

History

Personally had this at the infamous Bagatelle in NYC back in the day RIP

[Curator's note: the video is from ~2016. The cocktail name had been around for years before this and to varied and completely different recipes. This appears to be only one establishment's version.]

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Unknown
Creator
Bagatelle, NYC
Source reference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYiNk0YdfEU&list=FLmPckZgFs2S9Ii1TKQukm…

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Not a Melon

1 1⁄2 oz Rye, Rittenhouse 100
1 oz Fino sherry, Lustau
3⁄4 oz Lemon juice
3⁄4 oz Simple syrup
1⁄2 oz Cynar
3 sli Cucumber
Instructions

Muddle cucumber slices, add other ingredients, shake with ice, and strain into a rocks/double old fashioned glass. Fill with ice or cube, and garnish with a cucumber wheel.

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Year
2017
Authenticity
Authentic recipe
Creator
Zach Luther, Backbar, Somerville, Massachusetts
Source reference

https://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2017/06/not-melon.html

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  • Deliciously different than the sum of its parts. Frederic Yarm's tasting notes are spot on: The Not a Melon gave forth a cucumber-melon aroma with rye notes peeping through. Next, a vegetal, lemon, and malt sip led into rye, bubble gum, and cucumber on the swallow.
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Noble

1 1⁄4 oz Light rum, El Dorado White (El Dorado 3 year)
1⁄4 oz Cachaça (Seleta aged)
1⁄2 oz Grenadine
3⁄4 oz Lime juice
1⁄2 oz Fernet Branca
Instructions

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.

History

The Noble is Frederic Yarm's modification of the "Nobel" from "Pioneers of Mixing at Elite Bars: 1903-1933"

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Year
2012
Authenticity
Altered recipe
Creator
Frederic Yarm
Source reference

https://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2012/11/noble.html

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  • Subbed Pere Labat 59 rhum agricole for the aged cachaca. Homemade grenadine using Morgenthaler spec. Blood orange at the start, and After Eight on the finish. Really delicious. Added a few drops of saline, which punched up the orange to Tang and Jolly Rancher, brought on the chocolate notes earlier, and toned down the menthol and bitter finish. Overall prefer it w/out the saline. Try with xocolatl bitters next time instead.
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Charitable Figure

1 1⁄2 oz Rye, Rittenhouse
3⁄4 oz Brucato Woodlands Amaro (1 oz provides more fig flavor)
3⁄4 oz Maurin Quina
1 Fig (dried mission fig for optional garnish)
1 Brandied cherry (for optional garnish, plus smoked gouda)
Instructions

Stir with ice, strain into cocktail glass. Optional garnish with cocktail skewer of dried mission fig, smoked gouda cheese, and Luxardo cherry.

Notes

The garnish is optional, but a small piece of smoked gouda enhances the fig aroma in the drink. A brandied cherry works well with or without the cheese, and a dried mission fig opposite the cherry can complete the presentation.

The Brucato Woodlands has a pleasant fig character that works well in a black Manhattan/boulevardier fusion. The cherry in the wine based Maurin quina complements the fig.

History

The combination of cherry and fig made "charitable" and "figure" pop into my head. I thought of a friend and local philanthropist and arrived at the name.

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2026
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Your original creation
Creator
Shawn C., Fresno, California
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Anyone's Shadow

1 oz Rye
1 oz Jamaican rum, Smith & Cross
3⁄4 oz Amaro Meletti
1⁄4 oz Bénédictine
1 twst Lemon zest (as garnish)
Instructions

Stir, strain, coupe, garnish.

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Year
ca. 2025
Authenticity
Authentic recipe
Creator
Mike “Juice” Treffehn, Rum Club, Portland, OR
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https://www.instagram.com/p/DKKtio8SyCy/

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The Royal Scam

1 1⁄2 oz Blanco tequila, El Tesoro Platinum
3⁄4 oz Dry vermouth, Ransom
1⁄2 oz Cassis, Mathilde
1⁄4 oz Ancho Reyes Verde chile liqueur
1 ds Bitters, Bittermens Xocolatl Mole
1 twst Orange peel (as garnish, or expressed and discarded)
1 Bing Cherry (as garnish)
Instructions

Stir; strain; up; twist; garnish.

History

The name, from an excellent and sardonic Steely Dan song/album, plays on "Kir Royale," perhaps the best known mixed drink employing cassis. Instead of playing up cassis's tart and regal qualities, this drink digs into its more earthy underside.

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Craig Eliason
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Year
2026
Authenticity
Your original creation
Creator
Craig Eliason, Saint Paul, Minnesota (USA)
Source reference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IU1ZdDfXTY

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  • Dark ruby color. Orange marmalade, cherry/cranberry, poblano on the nose, subtly. Sip has cranberry cocktail, Big Red soda, red grapes, black pepper, agave. Chili emerges on swallow. Finish is cherries, cinnamon and other spices.
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Queen Anne's Revenge

1 oz Rhum Agricole
1 oz Amaro Montenegro
1 oz Lime juice
3⁄4 oz Maple syrup
1 Cinnamon stick (as garnish)
Instructions

Shake; strain; up; garnish.

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2024
Authenticity
Authentic recipe
Creator
Jason Kilgore and Richard Boccato, Dutch Kills, New York, New York (USA)
Source reference

https://bsky.app/profile/anatomyofadrink.bsky.social/post/3md56uipszs2q

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Gregor Samsa

1 oz Rye, Rittenhouse 100
7⁄8 oz Bénédictine
2⁄3 oz Becherovka
1⁄2 oz Lemon
1 rinse Absinthe
Instructions

Shake. Strain into an absinthe rinsed coupe.

Notes

If using a 90 proof rye, add 5ml.

History

I started from the Metamorphosis and added some ooomph & some spice.
The name comes from the character in Kafka's Book.

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noksagt commented on 1/25/2026:

Is there a mL/cL bug in the entry? This is over 30 oz of ingredients, so decreasing by a factor of 10 might make it reasonable (30/25/20/15).

Frostie Sour

1 3⁄4 oz Orange juice
3⁄4 oz Lemon juice
1 1⁄4 oz Root beer (Vanilla root beer reduction; see Notes)
3⁄4 oz Aquafaba
1 twst Orange peel (as garnish)
3 dr Cardamom bitters (as garnish)
Instructions

Shake/dry shake; strain; up; garnish.

Notes

For the vanilla root beer reduction: Bring 12 oz. of Frostie Vanilla Root Beer to an active simmer on the stove. Add 4 swaths of orange peel, a tablespoon of granulated sugar, and a cinnamon stick, and cook down until liquid is reduced to about a third, around 20 minutes. Strain.

History

Created for the Reddit Original Cocktail Competition, January 2026: Orange and Vanilla (NA).

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Craig Eliason
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Year
2025
Authenticity
Your original creation
Creator
Craig Eliason, Saint Paul, Minnesota (USA)
Source reference

https://www.reddit.com/r/cocktails/comments/1qjip9z/frostie_sour/

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  • Root beer float, lemon ice, Creamsicle, orange sherbet.
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Wake Up Call

1 1⁄2 oz Herbal liqueur, Jeppson's Malort
3⁄4 oz Grapefruit liqueur
3⁄4 oz Grapefruit juice
3⁄4 oz Lime juice
3⁄4 oz Cinnamon syrup
1⁄4 sli Grapefruit (dehydrated and cinnamon-dusted, as garnish)
Instructions

Shake, strain, coupe, garnish.

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Year
ca. 2025
Authenticity
Unknown
Creator
Shame & Regret, Colorado Springs
Source reference

https://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2025/02/wake-up-call.html

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