Maison Sherry Cobbler
Shakes all ingredients with ice, strain into a stemmed pilsner or hurricane glass filled with crushed ice, garnish with berries (blackberries, picked blueberries), an orange slice and a mint bouquet.
The version in "Sherry: A Modern Guide to the Wine World's Best-Kept Secret" by Talia Baiocchi has only a barspoon of blueberry preserves. I made this with .5 oz of a housemade blueberry syrup and omitted the demerara.
"Brooklyn Bartender: A Modern Guide to Cocktails and Spirits," Carey Jones, Black Dog & Leventhal, 2016, p.261
- Porthole Fix — Port, Lime juice, Raspberry syrup
Had two out of work bartender friends over for some happy hour cocktails and we decided to give this a whirl. Since the brands weren't specified here, I'll note that we tried this with Wray & Nephew and Rothman & Winter. We all liked it, I thought it was sort of in "The Defend Arrack" vein. Definitely balanced for the industry / cocktail nerd crowd, so I also tried it using .75 oz instead of .5 oz for the acid and modifiers, and we all thought that was an improvement--rounded off the rough edges of the rum's rubbery funk and petrol notes, with less of a boozy balance, and as one put it, "just made it more daiquiri-esque".