Stir; strain; up.
W. J. Tarling, Café Royal Cocktail Book (1937) https://punchdrink.com/recipes/alberto/
Rim a frozen coupe glass with sugar and return the glass to the freezer.
Shake with ice and strain into the coupe glass.
Sugar: your choice: regular, chocolate, pomegranate, etc.
So, I drive into my backyard and a peacock is wandering around ...... haven't never ever seen anything like that in the last 64 years !!
Mostly like a Brandy Crusta.
Shake with ice and strain into a frozen coupe glass.
In memory of a Naval Academy graduate.
Shake with ice and strain into a frozen coupe glass.
In memory of a Naval Academy graduate ......
2 lbs of corned beef in the crockpot.
2 lbs of Santa Maria Tri-Tip in the same crockpot.
Lots of red wine in the crockpot.
Lots of spices in the crockpot.
8 hours on the simmer ........
Add all ingredients into an iced filled shaker. Shake and strain over ice into a collins glass. Garnish with a crab apple.
Personally had this cocktail at The Macallan 12 AR Experience in the Bowery, NYC
Add all ingredients together in an ice filled yarai. Stir and strain over ice into a rocks glass.
Personally had this cocktail at the Macallan AR 12 Experience in the Bowery, NYC
Stir with ice, strain into a cocktail coupe, and garnish with an orange twist.
One of my fellow bartenders at Drink made the Midnight Mass from Death & Co. for a guest, and I became curious about the combination of Cardamaro and Benedictine. After having a drink two nights prior with the Genever-Cardamaro duo, I decided to split the spirit with Batavia Arrack as I had done in the Dutch Hand after experiencing the two in recipes like the Double Dutch and Weirding Way. Also a nod to how the original was made with rum. For a name, I paid tribute to the Midnight Mass inspiration and dubbed it Midnight to Midnight after a Psychedelic Furs album.
Subtle but worthy improv on the brown drink. The malt of the Genever gives it a nice and new mouthfeel.
Shake with ice, strain into a cocktail coupe, and garnish with unseen Freudian symbolism.
During a trip to the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, I was inspired by the works of Estefania Puerta, a Columbian born sculptor living in Vermont. Her style was coated in surrealism, biological touches, and palpable symbolism, and I found myself returning to that section of the museum after the first lingering pass. One of my favorite pieces from her was the 2020 All of Freud's Beautiful Women (see blog post link for a photo), and that night, I was inspired to craft a cocktail tribute to it especially given its name. For a starting point, I focused in on an Amaro Montenegro for Campari riff on the Rose Gold that I had been making at Drink. Both the Bourbon and gin versions of this have been successes giving a touch of clementine and cinnamon complexity to the Gold Rush and Bee's Knees yet not as bitter as the Rose Gold. To that, the art made me think of the earthy and funky weirdness of the mezcal-rhum agricole combination that I have used in a few recipes. Despite the spirits leaning towards lime, I am glad that I stuck with lemon juice here akin to the Honey Bee.
Great cocktail - complex with some funk, and a bit of a tiki feel. Would go well over crushed ice with some bitters and a flaming passionfruit half...
Stirred, Nick and Nora glass, garnish.
Shake with ice and strain into a frozen coupe glass.
Cheers to a potential 3rd generation USNA Graduate.
Unfortunately and somewhat to my surprise, Punch's version doesn't do this one justice, since it omits the Cointreau and the orange peel that are in the 1937 recipe. I prefer Kina l'Aero d'Or to Cocchi Americano in many of the old Kina Lillet cocktails, including this one, because I find the Cocchi somewhat overly intense with respect to cinnamon notes. As an approximation of the original cocktail I used: 1 Tanqueray, 1 Kina l'Aero d'Or, 1 Lustau Fino Sherry, 1/6 (1 barspoon) Cointreau, orange peel in drink. My recommendation is to use the Cointreau volume to slightly adjust sweetness up or down. I am debating whether to make a new cocktail entry for the "original" Alberto with Kina Lillet, and add my notes there.