Hot Summer Day

1 oz Cognac
1 oz Framboise, Mathilde
3⁄4 oz Chinato, Cocchi Barolo Chinato
1⁄2 oz Lavender syrup
1⁄2 oz Balsamic Vinegar (18 year aged)
4 ds Aztec Chocolate bitters
Instructions

Shake with ice and strain into a frozen cocktail glass.

History

A beautiful 100-degree day, no humidity !!

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Year
2025
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Creator
Carl N.
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Putter Up

1 3⁄4 oz Blended Scotch, Dewar's (12 Year)
1⁄2 oz Passion fruit liqueur (Chinola)
1⁄2 oz Rich simple syrup 2:1
1⁄2 oz Lime juice
1 Grapefruit soda (Fever Tree, to fill)
Instructions

Combine all ingredients except the soda in a shaker with ice. Shake and strain into an ice-filled chimney glass. Top with grapefruit soda.

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Year
2024
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Creator
Haberdasher, San Jose, CA, USA
Source reference

Recipe provided as courtesy of bar staff

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168 Hours

1 1⁄2 oz Brandy (Tin City Distillery Walnut Flavored Brandy)
1 oz Limoncello, Pallini
3⁄4 oz Orange juice
4 ds Grapefruit bitters
Instructions

Shake with ice and strain into a frozen coupe glass.

History

168 Hours ago was a magical time.

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2025
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Creator
Carl N.
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Cravan

1 1⁄2 oz Bourbon
3⁄4 oz Grapefruit juice
1⁄2 oz Maraschino Liqueur
1⁄4 oz Campari
1 ds Bitters, Angostura
1 twst Orange peel (As garnish)
Instructions

Shake with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, and garnish with an orange twist (here, to accent the Campari) or mint (what I did in 2009 with the option of orange twist).

History

For the Mixoloseum's Thursday Drink Night online chat, the theme of the week was Bourbon back in October 2009. I thought about mixing whiskey with grapefruit juice and ended up including flavor pairing ideas from the Hemingway Daiquiri, the Shiver, and a few other drinks. For a drink name, I latched onto Matt Schrage's homage to a Dadaist with his Hugo Ball, and honored a Dadaist that I read about in 4 Dada Suicides, namely Arthur Cravan. Cravan, besides being a bit of a drinker, was best known as a Dada poet, criminal, man of mystery, and professional boxer.

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Year
2009
Authenticity
Unknown
Creator
Frederic Yarm, Mixoloseum's Thursday Drink Night (weekly Internet chat/drink making series), Boston, MA
Source reference

https://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2009/10/cravan-cocktail.html

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lesliec commented on 8/16/2025:

Arthur sounds an interesting chap, and since we (almost) share a last name I had to try this.
Lacking grapefruit, I used some orange/mango juice in an apple base (inherited from a deceased friend - don't imagine I bought the stuff), which I feel is sufficiently dada to go with the rest. But we liked the result!

Tin City

1 1⁄2 oz Brandy (Tin City Distillery Walnut Flavored Brandy)
3⁄4 oz Suze
3⁄4 oz Cassis
3⁄4 oz Lime juice
3 ds Lemon bitters
Instructions

Shake with ice and strain into a frozen coupe glass.

History

Recently visited Tin City Distillery in Paso Robles, CA.

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2025
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Carl N.
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Devil Walking Next to Me

1 1⁄4 oz Batavia Arrack
1⁄2 oz Sweet vermouth
1⁄2 oz Lime juice
1⁄2 oz Salers Gentiane (Suze or Aveze will work here too)
1⁄4 oz Allspice Dram
1 sli Lime (Lime wheel as optional garnish)
Instructions

Shake with ice, strain into a cocktail coupe, and garnish with a lime wheel.

History

For Loyal Nine's Yacht Rock Sunday series, I became inspired by the song "One Night in Bangkok" off the playlist. I figured that Batavia Arrack was the way to go given the bar's inventory and the Bangkok's Southeast Asian location, and I moved in the direction of a Floridita mashed up with the Sinnerman Swizzle. I named the end result The Devil Walking Next to Me from a lyric from that song.

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Year
2015
Authenticity
Your original creation
Creator
Frederic Yarm, Loyal Nine, Cambridge, MA
Source reference

https://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-devil-walking-next-to-m…

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Bucking the Tiger

1 oz Mezcal
1 oz Cognac
1 oz Pineapple juice
3⁄4 oz Lime juice
1⁄2 oz Passion fruit syrup
1⁄2 oz Cinnamon syrup
1 spg Mint (A sprig or a bouquet as garnish)
1 Cinnamon stick (Smoldering as garnish)
Instructions

Whip shake with crushed ice, pour into a Tiki mug, fill with crushed ice, and garnish with mint sprigs and a smoldering cinnamon stick.

History

I became inspired by the Samson Swizzle, so I mashed up the Iuka's Grogg with the Gilda to arrive at the passion fruit-cinnamon combination, and I utilized the spirit duo from the 1910 Cocktail. For a name, I dubbed this one Bucking the Tiger named after slang for playing a risky move in the gambling game Faro that I learned about in Herbert Asbury's The French Quarter book about New Orleans.

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Year
2025
Authenticity
Your original creation
Creator
Frederic Yarm, Boston, MA
Source reference

https://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2025/08/bucking-tiger.html

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  • As written, too sweet. Balance improved by the addition of 0.5 oz dark rum or rhum agricole, but then feels muddied and too much going on. Whole not greater than the sum of its parts. Would consider reducing pineapple to 0.5 - 0.75 oz, if making again.
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Creeping Charlie

1 1⁄4 oz Gin, Fords
3⁄4 oz Aquavit, Aalborg
3⁄4 oz Dry vermouth, Dolin
1⁄4 oz Falernum
1⁄4 oz Herbal liqueur, Green Chartreuse
2 ds Orange bitters, Regans' orange bitters
10 lf Mint (muddled)
1 spg Mint (as garnish)
Instructions

Muddle mint leaves in falernum; stir with ice and other ingredients; double strain; up; garnish.

History

Won third place in the Reddit Original Cocktail Competition - August 2025: Mint & Lime.

Picture of Creeping Charlie
Craig Eliason
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Year
2025
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Your original creation
Creator
Craig Eliason, Saint Paul, Minnesota (USA)
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https://www.reddit.com/r/cocktails/comments/1mor2fr/creeping_charlie/

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  • Pale yellow-green. Mint and Band-Aid on nose, Caraway and Wrigley's gum on sip, herbal complexity on swallow and finish. A kind of more mature Southside.
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Shawn C commented on 8/14/2025:

Very nicely balanced. The caraway/fennel/mint bridges the chartreuse. Herbal spearmint chewing gum and some white wine body with a little wormwood to finish, falernum (I used John D. Taylor Velvet Falernum) provides mouthfeel and rounds it all out.

Bow Street Banana

2 oz Irish whiskey, Jameson (Bananas Jameson - see note)
1⁄2 oz Sherry, Lustau Pedro Ximenez
2 ds Bitters, Scrappy's Chocolate
1 rinse Islay Scotch, Lagavulin 16
1 pn Clove (For smoking)
1 sli Banana (Cinnamon-sugar brûléed)
Instructions

1. Slice a banana and top with cinnamon sugar. Use a torch to brûlée the sugar.
2. Put the cloves on a glass plate or surface. Mist the glass with whiskey, then use a torch to light up the cloves. Place your glass over the smoking cloves.
3. In a Yarai (no ice), stir the bitters, sherry, and Bananas Jameson together. Pour into the clove smoked glass. Serve with the cinnamon-sugar brûléed banana slice.

Notes

Bananas Jameson - slice three bananas and soak it in 750 ml Jameson Irish Whiskey for 3 to 4 days. Strain out bananas and put the infused liquid back into the bottle. Store bottle in the refrigerator indefinitely. Bananas Jameson was created by Marc Forgione at his eponymous restaurant in NYC.

History

Personally had this. An Old Fashioned play on the Smokey Monkey by Jamie Boudreau as per CliQue Bar and Lounge drink menu

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Creator
CliQue Bar and Lounge, Las Vegas
Source reference

https://www.mensjournal.com/food-drink/how-to-make-an-old-fashioned-wit…

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La Riviera

1 1⁄2 oz Gin (Four Pillars Bloody Shiraz)
1 oz Aperol
3⁄4 oz Lemon juice
3⁄4 oz Grapefruit juice
1⁄2 oz Orgeat
Instructions

Shake with ice and strain into a frozen coupe glass.

History

(1) I saw this on the cocktail list at Cielo Restaurant in Atascadero, CA. That list of ingredients calls for pineapple juice. I have none, so I substituted grapefruit juice.
(2) As for amounts of each ingredient, the cocktail list did not show. So I made up my own amounts.

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2025
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