Thrust and Parry

1 rinse Mezcal, Del Maguey Vida
3⁄4 oz Ginger liqueur, Domaine de Canton
2 oz Scotch, Highland Park 12
3 Candied ginger (as garnish)
Instructions

Combine scotch and ginger liqueur and stir with ice. Coat the inside of a chilled Nick and Nora glass with the mezcal. Garnish: 3 small pieces of candied ginger on a pick.

History

Regan's attempt to update his classic.

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Gary Regan
Source reference

Listed and Described in: Teague, Sother. "I'm Just Here for the Drinks." (2018). pg. 83

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  • A easy stirred drink strongly reminiscent of a Penicillin that doesn't compromise much in terms of taste or quality.
  • For me, much better then the Debonair, but still has all the characteristics of that drink.
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Debonair

2 1⁄2 oz Scotch (Single Malt: Oban or Springbank)
1 oz Ginger liqueur, Domaine de Canton
1 twst Lemon peel (as garnish)
Instructions

Stir and Strain into cocktail glass. Garnish: Lemon Twist

History

Created by Gary Regan, made famous by Dale Degroff in the Rainbow Room.

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Gary Regan
Source reference

In: Teague, S. "I'm Just Here for the Drinks." (2018). pg. 83. Also in Regan, Gary. "The Joy of Mixology." (2003). p.246

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  • A drink that is very representative of the time in which is was created, but doesn't quite hold up for me.
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Also works with Irish instead of Scotch: we call that a De Chineal Maith (Irish for “of a good nature”)
Also works with Tennessee Sour Mash instead of Scotch: we call that variation a Good Lookin’

Sissy's Bane

1 1⁄2 oz Cardamaro
1 oz Bourbon, Basil Hayden's
1⁄2 oz Brandy (Duck fat wash)
1 t Lemon juice
Instructions

Stir, strain, lowball glass with ice.

Notes

I used Darvelle Freres VSOP

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2020
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The CooCoo Nut

1 oz Gin (see notes for recipe)
1⁄2 oz Absinthe, Lucid
1⁄4 oz Crème de Menthe, Tempus Fugit
1⁄4 oz Falernum, Velvet Falernum
Instructions

Combine all ingredients in a tin. Dry shake, add ice, hard shake, single strain into large stemware glass. Dust with CooCoo Nut Garnish.

Notes

** CooCooNut Gin Blend **
-> Combine in closeable mason jar
* 5 oz Royal Dock Navy Strength gin
* 5 grams fresh grated ginger
* 3 grams fresh lemon zest
-> Cook with Sous Vide at 175 degrees for 1 hour
- > Once cooled add
* 1¼ oz St George Botanivore gin
* 2½ oz fresh young coconut water
* 1/3 dropper of Ms. Better Bitters Miraculous Foamer
- - - ---------------------------------- - - -
**CooCooNut Dust**

Toast fresh grated coconut at 325 degrees for approximately 10 minutes until lightly browned. Combine with cinnamon and muddle to dust.

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2019
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Creator
Austin Doner, The Corner Door in Los Angeles
Source reference

http://www.drinklucid.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2019-Cocktail-Clas…

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I had to clean this up a bit, mainly to remove PR cut and pasted from the link. This seems like it's beyond the reach of most home enthusiasts.  Thanks,  Zachary

Dutch Hand

3⁄4 oz Genever
3⁄4 oz Batavia Arrack
3⁄4 oz Sweet vermouth
3⁄4 oz Campari
3 ds Bitters, Bittermens Xocolatl Mole
1 Cherry (As garnish)
Instructions

Stir with ice, strain into a cocktail coupe, and garnish with a cherry.

Notes

Quirky and complex. Genever puts it somewhere between a Negroni and a Boulevardier and the Batavia Arrack close to a Right Hand all in the same glass.

History

Inspired by the Right Hand at Milk & Honey and riffs like the Tres Hands, I decided to create a Genever and Batavia Arrack variation that I dubbed the Dutch Hand. The Dutch besides distilling Genever are major importers of Batavia Arrack dating back to the Dutch East India Trading Company and now with rum merchants like E&A Scheer. Moreover, the combination of Genever and Batavia Arrack was one that worked well in two drinks that I have had in the past.

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Year
2020
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Creator
Frederic Yarm, In Quarantine, Boston, MA
Source reference

https://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2020/04/dutch-hand.html

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  • Definitely an offbeat taste, must be down for both bitter and funky.
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Slippery When Wet

1 Strawberry (or two if small)
3⁄4 oz Lemon juice
1⁄2 oz Honey
2 oz Gin
1 t Greek yogurt (heaping)
1 pn Black pepper (as garnish)
1 sli Strawberry (as garnish)
Instructions

Muddle strawberry in lemon juice and honey. Add gin, yogurt, and ice, and shake. Double-strain on crushed ice in rocks glass and garnish.

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Shannon Tebay, Death & Co., New York, New York (USA)
Source reference

https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/strawberry-gin-yogurt-coc…

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  • made with blackberries instead of strawberries; still interesting and tart.
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Brooklynite

2 oz Jamaican rum
1⁄2 oz Lime juice
1⁄2 oz Honey syrup
1 wdg Lime (as garnish)
Instructions

Shake; strain; up; garnish.

Notes

Some include a dash of Angostura bitters.

History

Obviously built on the daiquiri model, but more complex in both base spirit and sweetener.

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1940s
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Source reference

https://imbibemagazine.com/brooklynite-recipe/

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yarm commented on 12/04/2022:

"Some include a dash of Angostura bitters." The earliest recipes in The Stork Club (1946) and Trader Vic's Bartender Guide (1946) both do. And the one I spotted in Unvarnished (2020) does to. Only Imbibe Magazine leaves it out.

Very similar to the Honeysuckle and Honey Bee (both recipes appear in Embury) which both have lemon juice but have white rum and Jamaican rum, respectively.

Barcelonnette

2 oz Blanco tequila
3⁄4 oz Dry vermouth
1⁄4 oz Amère Sauvage
1⁄4 oz Honey syrup
1 rinse Pastis, Herbsaint
1 twst Grapefruit peel (as garnish)
Instructions

Stir; strain into Herbsaint- or absinthe-rinsed coupe; garnish.

History

Named for the town that was the origin of the largest wave of French immigration to Mexico.

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Craig Eliason
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2020
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Creator
Craig Eliason, Saint Paul, Minnesota (USA)
Source reference

https://forums.egullet.org/topic/160647-cocktail-challenge-tequila-and-…

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Wintry Mix

3⁄4 oz Rye, Rittenhouse 100
3⁄4 oz Walnut Liqueur, Nux Alpina
3⁄4 oz Cynar 70
3⁄4 oz Sherry, Lustau East India Solera
1 Orange peel
Instructions

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

History

Named for the dreaded weather phenomenon we see in the Midwest of part snow and part freezing rain. And we just got some dumped on us in the middle of April in Chicago. This one is also a two-fer, part of my ongoing "4 parts, equal parts, stirred" series and also part of my "Cocktails from the Corona Bunker" series.

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2020
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Aloe'n & Cynical

1 oz Mezcal, Del Maguey Vida
1 oz Cynar
1 oz Aloe vera liqueur, Chareau
Instructions

Stir with cracked ice, strain into a chilled coupe.

Notes

The aloe hits first and is fruity and herbal, followed by the smoke and body of the mezcal. I thought it was just pretty okay up until the point that the bittersweet complexity of the Cynar hit the back and sides of my tongue. Then, holy shit... it just all melded in a way that had me craving another sip, and then another... and then another cocktail.

History

Isolation inspired cocktail during the Coronavirus quarantine of 2020.

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2020
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Creator
Ian Lacy
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  • Good! But I like my mistake (Clearly Aloe'n) much better.
  • Starts bright, fruity, and herbal. Melts into smoke. Finishes bittersweet and complex, inviting a subsequent sip. Easy to make; hard to stop sipping.
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