Toot's Chai Tai

1 oz Rum, Appleton
1 oz Overproof rum (Plantation or Wray & Nephew preferred over white)
1⁄2 oz Orange liqueur, Sangster’s (If obtainable, otherwise use home brew)
1⁄2 oz Chai tea syrup (Chai masala from Vik’s)
1⁄2 oz Orgeat
1⁄2 oz Guava juice
1⁄2 oz Pineapple juice
1⁄2 oz Lime juice
Instructions

Shake well on ice, strain into chilled topless old beer can, gently pour dark overtop if that floats your boat & garnish w sugar cane.

Notes

Celebratory, not revelatory

History

In memory of
The Honorable
Frederick Nathanial Hibbert, Order of Jamaica
(8 Dec 1942 – 11 Sept 2020)
R.I.P.

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Potted Parrot

2 oz Puerto Rican Rum, Bacardi (Carta Blanca)
1⁄4 oz Cane syrup (Giffard)
1⁄4 oz Orgeat (Small Hands)
Instructions

Fill a sling glass with crushed ice. Combine all ingredients and shake with ice; pour into glass. Granish with a parrot on a stick and sprig of mint.

History

Adapted from a recipe in Victor Bergeron's 1947-72 Trader Vic's Bartender's Guide.

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  • Ok. Could use,,, nutmeg?
  • Extremelhy well balanced. Delicious.
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Bel-ami

1⁄2 oz Suze
1⁄2 oz Herbal liqueur, Yellow Chartreuse (MOF* 45%)
1 1⁄2 oz Dry apricot brandy (Apricot eau de vie)
Instructions

Stir in rock glass, serve.
Maybe a lemon peel if you are in the mood for.

Notes

I use Abricotine for the eau de vie.
Strong fresh apricot in taste.
Just bought today.
Very nice.

History

Chartreuse Mof is amongst the different upgraded versions of the liqueur.
Less proof but accordingly made by the usual monks and "top" french sommeliers.
MOF refers to meilleurs ouvriers de france.
Best worker/craftsmen of France...
A highly award amongst workers (hyper technic, skills, taste).
These craftsmen are awarded because they are able to masterpiece everything.

This chartreuse in consequence is not bad.
But not overly good as well.

It's not like Elixir, it's like classic Chartreuse, but very Intense and complex.

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Made with Blume Marillen, and Elixir Combier instead of the Chartreuse. Was a bit sweet so I added a touch more Suze and threw the proportions way out of whack. The 1:1 ratio is good and opens up nicely as you drink. I can only imagine this would be better with the real deal Chartreuse instead of the substitute.


Mezcal Smoked Tea Sour

2 oz Mezcal
3⁄4 oz Lemon juice
3⁄4 oz Simple syrup (lapsang souchong tea infused)
Instructions

Combine ingredients and dry shake, add ice to cool and dilute and pour into cocktail glass, garnish with dried tea leaves

*for lapsang souchong simple syrup combine equal weight lapsang souchong tea and sugar

Notes

Excellent, would consider dialing back the syrup a bit

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2013
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Charlotte Voisey
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Huntsman

3⁄4 oz Scotch, Aberlour 12
3⁄4 oz Amargo-Vallet
Instructions

Stir, strain into old fashioned glass with a large cube or sphere. Garnish with an expressed orange swath.

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2018
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Creator
Zachary Pease, Attaboy, New York, NY
Source reference

Bartender's Choice Vol. 2 App, ingredient brands taken from https://betterbartend.com/qa-zachary-pease-my-friend-dukenew-york/

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4th and Clyde

1 oz Gin, Hendrick's
1 bsp Honey (Recipe calls for honey from CT)
1 pn Chili pepper (flakes)
Instructions

Stir (to dissolve the honey), add ice, shake, double strain.

Notes

I'd let the chili peppers mingle in one of the liquids for a while to give this a bit more of a kick or add some jalapeno? Or use a honey infused with chili peppers.

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2011
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John Ginetti, 116 Crown, New Haven, CT
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  • Delicious, simple, subtle heat, garnish with fresh jalapeno slice.
  • Needs a bit of pepper to balance this, but very good. — ★★★★★
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Garnished with fresh jalapeno slice (since I had it). Placed the chili flake in the shaker first, and was leisurely with my ingredient additions so that it had good contact with the liquids. Has a nice, subtle heat on the finish. Pleasant, delicious, new favorite!


Right Handed Planter

2 oz Jamaican rum (Aged or dark)
3⁄4 oz Sweet vermouth
3⁄4 oz Campari
1 1⁄2 oz Tea (Black tea, strong steep, cooled)
1⁄2 oz Sugar
1 pn Nutmeg (Freshly grated, as garnish)
1 spg Mint (As garnish)
Instructions

Dissolve the sugar in the lime juice and cooled tea. Shake with ice, strain into a rocks or Collins glass with fresh ice, and garnish with a mint sprig and freshly grated nutmeg.

History

In pondering Lemon Hart Rum's Colonel A.R. Woolley's Improved Planter's Punch presented by Jeff Berry in his Potions of the Caribbean book where the traditional drink was augmented by cooled tea as the weak element, my mind drifted to figure out a good riff on that. I landed on a mashup of the Rum Negroni-like Right Hand as the second recipe point, and merging together the two concepts and including my choice of mint and nutmeg garnishes that I opted for in the Improved Planter's Punch, the Right Handed Planter was born.

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2020
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Frederic Yarm, Boston, MA
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The Sandcastle

1 oz Watermelon juice (Simply Watermelon)
1 oz Rum, Diplomatico (Reserva Exclusivs)
1 oz Martinique Rum, Clément
3⁄4 oz Lime juice
1⁄2 oz Pisco, Macchu pisco
Instructions

Fill double old fashioned glass with crushed ice. Add all ingredients to shaker. Shake and strain.

Notes

The only thing that can’t be switched in this is the watermelon juice.

History

Friend bet me I couldn’t make a good cocktail with watermelon juice. This is what I came up with.

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2020
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Neptune's Wrath

1 1⁄2 oz Gin
3⁄4 oz Lemon juice
3⁄4 oz Simple syrup
1⁄4 oz Absinthe
1⁄4 oz Herbal liqueur, Green Chartreuse
Instructions

Shake gin, lemon juice, simply syrup, absinthe, and egg white for one dry shake then shake again with ice. Double strain into sour (ideal) or coup glass. Light chartreuse on fire then pour into drink to finish. No garnish

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More balanced/palatable than the name suggests


New Daq City

2 oz Light rum, Probitas
1⁄2 oz Pineapple syrup
1⁄4 oz Passion fruit syrup
1 sli Lime (garnish)
Instructions

Shake all ingredients with ice for 15 seconds, strain into a chilled coupe. Garnish with a lime wheel.

Notes

Pineapple syrup: equal parts fresh pineapple juice + cane sugar. Passion fruit syrup: equal parts defrosted Goya passion fruit pulp + cane sugar.

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