Two Lips

1 1⁄2 oz Genever
1⁄2 oz Elderflower liqueur, St. Germain
1⁄2 oz Lemon juice
1⁄4 oz Grapefruit juice
1 sli Lemon (wheel, as garnish)
Instructions

Shake all of the ingredients with ice, then strain into a chilled glass and garnish.

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Talbott Leaf

1⁄4 oz Cynar
7 lf Mint (1 as garnish)
2 oz Bourbon, Old Grand Dad Bonded
3⁄4 oz Lemon juice
1⁄2 oz Herbal liqueur, Green Chartreuse
1 bsp Strawberry preserves
Instructions

Muddle mint and cynar, add rest, shake, strain into coupe, garnish.

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Year
2009
Authenticity
Authentic recipe
Creator
Gerry Corcoran
Source reference

PDT Cocktail Book, pg 249

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  • I've never understood the logic behind muddling when you're about to shake. It's a delicious drink, even with just sticking the leaves in the mix and shaking.
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Prelude to a Broken Arm

1 oz Cognac
1⁄2 oz Rhum Agricole (I used a blanc, but an aged would work here too)
1⁄2 oz Curaçao
1⁄2 oz Cynar
1⁄2 oz Lemon juice
1 part Sugar (For glass rimming)
1 twst Lemon peel (As garnish)
Instructions

Shake with ice, strain into a sugar-rimmed coupe, and garnish with a lemon twist.

History

After writing about the Undertaker on my CocktailVirgin blog, it reminded me of the curaçao-Cynar combination. That got me thinking of the Hugo Ball from 2009 that perhaps introduced me to the combination. For a direction, I opted for a Sidecar styling with some rhum agricole to keep things French and a little bit weird. Since Hugo Ball was a member of the Dada art scene, I made this a tribute to a Marcel Duchamp piece that is merely a snow shovel signed and dated by the artist; it was part of his "ready-made" series of manufactured goods that were "elevated to the dignity of a work of art by the mere choice of an artist."

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Year
2021
Authenticity
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Creator
Frederic Yarm, Boston, MA
Source reference

https://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2021/06/prelude-to-broken-arm.html

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Tre Amari Fizz

3⁄4 oz Averna (These amaro can be swapped for what's available or more interesting.)
3⁄4 oz Fernet Branca (See note above.)
3⁄4 oz Cynar (See note above.)
1⁄4 oz Demerara syrup (Adjust according to amari choices.)
1⁄2 oz Lemon juice
2 oz Heavy cream
1 Egg white
4 dr Orange flower water
2 oz Ginger beer (In glass, not in shake.)
1 twst Orange peel (As garnish.)
Instructions

Shake (all but ginger beer and orange twist) once without ice and once with ice, strain into a Collins glass with 2 oz ginger beer, garnish with an orange twist, and add a straw.

Notes

We had a very dry, rather carbonated, and spicy ginger beer (it was a 6% fermentation to get it that dry). Anything matching spicy over more ginger ale sweet is preferable, but use what you got.

History

In April 2017, a reader of my blog from San Francisco was back in Boston and visiting Loyal Nine. One of his tablemates approached the bar and asked for a drink to end out the West Coast visitor's evening. Instead of a Flip, I decided to go in the style of a New Orleans (a/k/a Ramos) Fizz using three different amari. For the trio, I selected Fernet, Averna, and Cynar; and instead of soda water, I opted for ginger beer akin to the Fernet Buck. The end result was so good, that the original requester of the drink got envious and asked if he could have one as well (and that second one is the the one in the photo above). I feel that the amari could be swapped around depending on inventory and preference, but it was one aggressive, one funky, and one smooth as the balance.

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Year
2017
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Creator
Frederic Yarm, Loyal Nine, Cambridge, MA
Source reference

https://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2017/05/tre-amari-fizz.html

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Revenge of the Lawn

1 1⁄2 oz Gin
1⁄2 oz Green tea syrup (See notes.)
1⁄2 oz Sweet vermouth, Carpano Punt e Mes
1⁄2 oz Lemon juice
1 ds Bitters, Angostura
1 twst Lime peel (As garnish, shaped like a lawn/grass if possible (see photo).)
Instructions

Shake with ice, strain into a cocktail coupe, and garnish with a lime "lawn" twist.

Notes

To make the green tea syrup, do a strong steep (1/2 to 2/3 the advised amount of hot water to tea) for 4-5 minutes. Remove teabag or strain out tea leaves, and dissolve in an equal volume of sugar. Refrigerate.

History

For a Spring-themed drink of the day at Loyal Nine, I thought about my grass coming back in from its Winter slumber as well as figuring out how to fill in bare patches and do in the weeds that were also cropping up. Therefore, I went with the grassiness of green tea syrup and the earthiness of Punt e Mes and paired those with gin botanicals to capture the green blades and the fertile dirt. For a name, I paid tribute to author Richard Brautigan and his 1971 collection of short stories entitled "Revenge of the Lawn." Perhaps Brautigan was on my mind (despite not having read any of his books in years) since I remembered Scott Holliday's Brautigan. The lawn theme was solidified with a lime twist that looked like either a mustache guard or a lawn as it was attached to the side of the coupe glass.

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2017
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Creator
Fred Yarm, Loyal Nine, Cambridge, MA
Source reference

https://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2017/05/revenge-of-lawn.html

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Short Sharp Choc

2 oz Corn Whiskey, Mellow Corn
1⁄2 oz Crème de Cacao, Tempus Fugit
1⁄4 oz Becherovka
Instructions

Stir; strain; up.

Picture of Short Sharp Choc
Craig Eliason
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Year
2021
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Creator
Craig Eliason, Saint Paul, Minnesota (USA)
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  • Desserty. Chocolate, vanilla, corn nuts or Corn Pops cereal.
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Shawn C commented on 4/13/2024:

Mellow Corn's charms are on display here. The drink's mellowness comes from both Mellow Corn's barrel aging and the inherent sweet corn flavor that along with the other ingredients' sweetness mask what would otherwise be quite substantial alcohol heat. Surprisingly, the cocktail is 88+ proof before mixing-ice dilution, and is over 2x the 0.6 oz alcohol standard drink figure (which is of course woefully low compared to modern cocktail volumes and components.) The cinnamon from the Becherovka hits the nose first, as well as in the sip, closely followed by the cacao and vanilla.

Hold Up

3⁄4 oz Jamaican rum (Hamilton pot still gold rum)
3⁄4 oz Aromatized wine, Tempus Fugit Kina L'Aero d'Or
3⁄4 oz Crème de Pamplemousse, Giffard (rose)
3⁄4 oz Lemon juice
14 dr Celery bitters
1 twst Orange peel (as garnish)
Instructions

Shake, strain, coupe, garnish.

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Year
ca. 2019
Authenticity
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Creator
Alex Anderson, Cure, New Orleans, LA
Source reference

https://punchdrink.com/recipes/hold-up/

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Nice and surprisingly dry, used 50/50 Scrappys and fee bros for celery bitters

Missionary Man

2 oz Pineapple rum, Plantation Stiggins' Fancy
3⁄4 oz Chinese five spice syrup
1 oz Lime juice
1 sli Lime (as optional garnish)
Instructions

Shake all ingredients with ice for 15 seconds, strain into coupe. Optionally garnish with lime wheel.

Notes

For the Chinese 5 spice syrup combine 1 cup each water and demerara sugar with toasted & lightly cracked 5 spice ingredients (1 tbsp cloves, 2 tbsp each Szechuan peppercorn & fennel seeds, 4 tbsp star anise, 2 cinnamon sticks). Sous vide for 2 hours at 145 degrees, plunge into ice bath, strain and bottle. Add .25 oz overproof vodka if desired to extend shelf life. Alternately use 5 tbsp of quality 5 spice powder. Or there are also several stove top recipes for 5 spice syrup available online.

History

Quarterly daiquiri, 18Q1

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2018
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Chasing Sunsets

2 oz Light rum, Denizen
1⁄4 oz Campari
1⁄4 oz Allspice Dram, Bitter Truth
1⁄2 oz Mango Syrup
1 oz Lime juice
1 sli Lime (garnish)
Instructions

Shake all ingredients with ice for 15 seconds, strain into coupe. Optionally garnish with lime wheel.

Notes

For the mango syrup, defrost a 14 oz pouch of Goya mango fruit pulp and blend with equal parts cane sugar.

History

Quarterly daiquiri, 18Q2

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2018
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Vallet Service

1 oz Fernet Vallet
1 oz Amargo-Vallet
3⁄4 oz Lime
1⁄2 oz Cinnamon syrup
1 sli Lime (garnish)
Instructions

Shake all ingredients with ice for 15 seconds, strain into a chilled coupe. Garnish with lime wheel (dehydrated or fresh).

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2021
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