(the) Pilot Light

1 1⁄2 oz Mezcal
3⁄4 oz Crème de mure
3⁄4 oz Warm spice liqueur, Sukkah Hill Besamim
3⁄4 oz Lime juice
1⁄2 oz Cane syrup (Amber Coconut Nectar syrup)
4 ds Aztec Chocolate bitters
Instructions

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a frozen coupe glass.

History

The pilot light in the 60-year-old gas oven is now back in full operation !!

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Year
2022
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Creator
Carl N.
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Oil Change Blues

3 ds Herbal liqueur, Green Chartreuse
1 pn Sugar (Pomegranate Sugar for rim)
1 1⁄2 oz Sake (Soto Premium Junmai)
1 oz Japanese Whisky (Hakushu Single Malt 12 year)
3⁄4 oz Blue Curaçao
3⁄4 oz Pavan
2 ds Salt (Himalayan Pink rock salt)
Instructions

1. Splash some Green Chartreuse into a frozen coupe glass , swirl around, coat the rim, dip the rim into the pomegranate rimming sugar, then return the glass to the freezer.
2. Place all other ingredients into a shaker with ice, shake vigorously, and strain into the coupe glass.

Notes

A vibrant blue color. Light and refreshing.

History

After an oil change in the blue car, this now lights up the day.

Yields Drink
Year
2022
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Creator
Carl N.
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Midway Over

1 1⁄2 oz Gin (Four Pillars Bloody Shiraz Gin)
1 oz Crème de Violette
1 oz Pomegranate juice
3⁄4 oz Lime juice
1 Egg yolk
Instructions

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

History

Enroute WestPac, one gets Midway Over.

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Year
2022
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Creator
Carl N.
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WestPac

1⁄4 oz Lime juice (as rinse)
1 pn Sugar (Chocolate sugar for rim)
1 1⁄2 oz Gin (Four Pillars Bloody Shiraz Gin)
1 oz Crème de Violette, Rothman & Winter
1⁄4 oz Herbal liqueur (Spearmint Liqueur)
1 oz Pomegranate juice
1 Egg white
Instructions

1. Splash a little lime juice into a frozen coupe glass, roll it around, get the rim wet, dip & coat the rim in chocolate sugar, then return the glass to the freezer.
2. Add all ingredients into a shaker, add ice, shake very vigorously, and strain into the coupe glass.

History

To all those who have enjoyed WestPac.

Yields Drink
Year
2022
Authenticity
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Creator
Carl N.
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Henry the Navigator

1 oz Rum
1 oz Beirao
1 oz Dry vermouth
Instructions

Shake with ice. Straight up. Coupe.

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Year
2022
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Creator
Tom Marrion
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Second Class Cruise

1 1⁄2 oz Highland Scotch, Glenmorangie (Malaga Cask Single Malt Whisky)
1 oz Crème de mure
1⁄2 oz Campari
1 oz Pomegranate juice
1⁄2 oz Half-and-half
Instructions

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a frozen coupe glass.

History

For all the Second Class Middies.

Yields Drink
Year
2022
Authenticity
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Creator
Carl N.
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Handcuffed Lightning

3⁄4 oz Jamaican rum, Smith & Cross
3⁄4 oz Cognac
1⁄2 oz Sweet vermouth, Carpano Punt e Mes
1⁄2 oz Swedish Punsch
1⁄2 oz Apricot liqueur
2 ds Bitters, Angostura
1 twst Orange peel (As garnish)
Instructions

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

History

When I was looking through my drink database, I spied Tony Iamunno's Butterfly Sting with its Punt e Mes-Swedish punsch combination and wanted to improve on it. I recalled the Swedish punsch-apricot liqueur combination that I first discovered in the Havana Cocktail and then the apricot-Punt e Mes duo found in the Slope. Thus, I set my Muhammed Ali tribute riff in motion. For a spirit base, I split things up with a funky Jamaican rum and a rich Cognac, and for a name, I opted for the Handcuffed Lightning from Ali's quote, "I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick."

Yields Drink
Year
2021
Authenticity
Your original creation
Creator
Frederic Yarm, Boston, MA
Source reference

https://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2021/09/handcuffed-lightning.html

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  • Lovely drink. Sweet but complex — ★★★★★
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The Phrasemaker

3⁄4 oz Rye
3⁄4 oz Old Tom Gin (London Dry will work in a pinch)
1 oz Dry vermouth
1⁄4 oz Bénédictine
1⁄4 oz Pineapple syrup
2 ds Bitters, Bittermens Xocolatl Mole (Here, Angostura Cocoa, but other brands will do)
Instructions

Stir with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.

History

Created for my #SecretSanté drink on Instagram for my chosen internet bartender, Zach M. @allequalparts from Augusta, Georgia. I set out to figure out what his cocktail interests were by perusing a few dozen of his posts. After gathering up his favorite spirits, modifiers, and bitters, I set to work and fit it to a 1919 Cocktail structure. His interest in both rye and Old Tom gin made me think of my Call of the Wild, so I knew that the combination could work. Two sweeteners that he included in his cocktails were Benedictine and pineapple syrup, so why not both? Dry vermouth seemed necessary to balance the drink instead of something more bitter like Punt e Mes or oxidized like Oloroso sherry which both might drown out the pineapple notes. Finally, his sponsored post for Angostura Cocoa Bitters rounded off the recipe. For a name, I dubbed this drink after the nickname of one Augusta's most famous residents, Woodrow Wilson, which also seemed fitting since the 1919 aspect fell in the middle of his presidential term. That nickname was the Phrasemaker after his mastery of language and his not needing a speech writer during his career.

Yields Drink
Year
2021
Authenticity
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Creator
Frederic Yarm, Somerville, MA
Source reference

https://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-phrasemaker.html

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Reverie

1 oz Brandy
1⁄2 oz Curaçao
1⁄2 oz Maraschino Liqueur
1⁄4 oz Gomme syrup
1⁄2 oz Vanilla ice cream
Instructions

Shake hard with ice, strain, coupe.

Notes

Dessert cocktail

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Year
1892
Authenticity
Authentic recipe
Source reference

The Flowing Bowl, https://euvs-vintage-cocktail-books.cld.bz/1892-The-flowing-bowl-when-a…

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Third Class Cruise

1 1⁄2 oz Cachaça, Leblon
1 oz Dry sherry (medium dry sherry)
3⁄4 oz Licor 43
1⁄8 oz Sherry vinegar (Columela Sherry Vinegar Solera 30)
6 dr Absinthe
Instructions

1. Place some absinthe into a frozen coupe glass, swirl to coat, and return the glass to the freezer.
2. Shake ingredients with ice and strain into the frozen coupe glass.

Notes

1. The sherry vinegar. I found this particular "high performance" version a few years ago and it really makes a difference. You don't want "vinegar." Rather, you want a very flavorful Sherry Vinegar.

History

For all the Third Class Middies who survived.

Yields Drink
Year
2022
Authenticity
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Creator
Carl N.
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