Garage Door

1 1⁄2 oz Brandy
3⁄4 oz Pavan
3⁄4 oz Bénédictine
1 oz Grapefruit juice
2 ds Cranberry bitters
1 Egg yolk
Instructions

Shake very very vigorously with ice and strain into a frozen coupe glass.

History

Cheers to the successful installation of a new garage door.

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Year
2022
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Creator
Carl N.
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Babbo's Toddy

1 oz Sweet vermouth
1⁄2 oz Bourbon, Wild Turkey 101
1⁄2 oz Campari
3⁄4 oz Cinnamon syrup
6 oz Water (Hot (vary quantity to taste / mug size))
1 wdg Orange (as garnish)
Instructions

Stir into a mug, garnish.

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Year
ca. 2014
Authenticity
Authentic recipe
Creator
Erick Castro (Polite Provisions, Raised By Wolves, Boilermaker)
Source reference

https://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2014/12/babbos-toddy.html
https://www.outsideonline.com/food/perfect-hot-toddy-deconstructed/

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  • While I'd use fewer ounces of hot water than what is listed (I prefer 5-6 ounces of hot water), the ingredients listed play really well together, especially if you use Juliette Laroui's recipe for cinnamon syrup, which uses a base of Amontillado sherry instead of water for the syrup. — ★★★★★
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Jojiro commented on 1/22/2025:

I recommend less hot water than 8 oz. 5-6 oz. of hot water worked best for me. A really delicious combination, and intriguing; more so than many a toddy ordered at cocktail bars. Worth playing with.

noksagt commented on 1/22/2025:

That sounds like a good point. The recipe in Outside Magazine has it constructed in an 8 oz mug. Fred's blog seems to show about 300 mL (a little over 10 oz), so I think he might have made it with closer to 7 than 8 oz). I'll adjust to 6 oz as a "close enough crowd pleaser."

Casa Samba

3 wdg Lime (A 1/2 lime)
1 cube Sugar (Or 1 tsp)
2 oz Cachaça
1⁄2 oz Bénédictine
1 ds Peychaud's Bitters
1 ds Absinthe (8-12 drops)
2 dr Salt Solution (Or a tiny pinch salt)
Instructions

Muddle the lime wedges with the sugar cube. Add the rest of the ingredients, shake with ice, double strain into a double old fashioned glass, and fill with cracked ice. May need sugar/lime juice adjustment after a brief shake to taste.

Notes

A Caipirinha vacations in New Orleans, finds love.

History

A few Saturdays ago at Drink, a guest asked for a Caipirinha riff, and I decided to take it on a New Orleans adventure. The original impetus was how well cachaça and rhum agricoles work with Benedictine such as the cachaça Petition and the agricole Homere Punch, and then I rounded off things with Peychaud's and absinthe. Since their next order was doubling up on this creation, I decided to make it once I got home that night. For a name, I dubbed this one later the Casa Samba after the Brazilian Carnival held in New Orleans every year.

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Your original creation
Creator
Frederic Yarm, Drink, Boston, MA
Source reference

https://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2022/02/casa-samba.html

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South American Honey Bee

1 oz Pisco
1 oz Cachaça
1⁄2 oz Honey syrup (1:1)
1⁄2 oz Lime juice
1 Egg white
1 ds Bitters, Angostura (As garnish)
Instructions

Shake once without ice and once with ice, strain into a single old fashioned glass (the way I do it at work) or a coupe glass (home), and garnish with Angostura Bitters.

History

One Friday night, a guest at Drink requested a Pisco Sour variation. My first thought was to mix things up by splitting the base with cachaça for those two South American spirits have worked well in my Javari Mai Tai and Loreto Swizzle as well as Jay Kuehner's Cienciano. As a second tweak, I swapped the simple syrup for honey. For a name, I recalled David Embury calling the Jamaican rum Bee's Knees the Honey Bee, and Yvonne's Honey Bee included egg white; therefore, I dubbed it the South American Honey Bee.

Yields Drink
Year
2022
Authenticity
Your original creation
Creator
Frederic Yarm, Drink, Boston, MA
Source reference

https://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2022/02/south-american-honey-bee.ht…

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  • 3.5 stars as written; increased lime juice and honey syrup to 0.75 oz each, plus lime peel garnish with oil expressed -- 4 stars
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Rhapsody in Blue

1 1⁄2 oz Rye, Rittenhouse 100
3⁄4 oz Bianco Vermouth, Dolin
3⁄4 oz Amaro, Pasubio
1 ds Bitters, Bitter Truth Celery
1 Blueberry (as garnish)
Instructions

Stir with ice, strain, up. Garnish with a blueberry.

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Year
2019
Authenticity
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Creator
Matthew Belanger, Death & Co
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Death & Co: Welcome Home

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The Elves and their Antics

1 1⁄2 oz Genever
1 oz Cardamaro
1⁄4 oz Amer Picon
1⁄4 oz Bénédictine
1 twst Orange peel (As garnish)
Instructions

Stir with ice, strain into a cocktail coupe, and garnish with an orange twist.

History

I was reminded of the Genever-Cardamaro pairing that I first learned about at Portland Cocktail Week 2012 with the Deck Hand and Walking Spanish and was reminded of years later with the Le Subtil. It inspired a series of creations such as the Wooden Shoe, and I crossed the idea with the Benedictine-Picon pairing in the Creole Cocktail. I dubbed the result The Elves and their Antics in keeping with my previous Dutch fairy tale drink name

Yields Drink
Year
2022
Authenticity
Your original creation
Creator
Frederic Yarm, Boston, MA
Source reference

https://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-elves-and-their-antics…

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Maestro Chorrizo

1 1⁄2 oz Herbal liqueur, Pomp and Whimsy
3⁄4 oz Licor 43
3⁄4 oz Cherry Liqueur, Sangue Morlacco
3⁄4 oz Limoncello, Pallini
2 ds Bitters, Angostura
1 Egg yolk
Instructions

Shake very very vigorously with ice and strain into a frozen coupe glass.

History

Chorrizo is quite the superb musician and band leader.

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2022
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1 1⁄2 oz Blended Scotch (Piperdean)
3⁄4 oz Blue Curaçao
3⁄4 oz Cherry Liqueur, Sangue Morlacco
3⁄4 oz Aromatized wine, Cocchi Americano
3 ds Bitters, Angostura
1 Egg white
Instructions

Shake very very vigorously with ice and strain into a frozen coupe glass.

History

Another of Chorrizo's many talents is teaching music.

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2022
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Parasol (Mustipher)

2 oz Light rum
3⁄4 oz Lime juice (fresh)
3⁄4 oz Crème de Banane
1⁄2 oz Pineapple juice
Instructions

Combine all of the ingredients with ice in a shaker and shake to chill. Strain into a chilled coupe and garnish.

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3 ds Peychaud's Bitters (bitters)
Instructions

Shake with ice and strain into a frozen coupe glass.

History

In memory of a Naval Academy graduate.

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2022
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Creator
Carl N.
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