Lady Midnight

1 1⁄2 oz Calvados (Or another style of aged apple brandy)
1 oz Sweet vermouth
3⁄8 oz Bénédictine
1⁄8 oz Herbal liqueur, Green Chartreuse
1 ds Bitters, Bittermens Xocolatl Mole
1 part Cherry (As garnish)
Instructions

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

History

For a drink of the day at Loyal Nine in 2016, I decided to do a Marconi Wireless riff to greet the autumn air. For modifiers to the Calvados and sweet vermouth base, I added Benedictine perhaps inspired by the Widow's Kiss and a touch of Green Chartreuse like a Marconi Wireless riff that I was served at Coppa. To bring out the darker notes in Benedictine, I embittered the mix with chocolate bitters. For a name, I tried to capture this fleeting but dark nature with a Leonard Cohen song title, Lady Midnight.

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Year
2016
Authenticity
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Creator
Frederic Yarm, Loyal Nine, Cambridge, MA
Source reference

https://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2016/10/lady-midnight.html

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Schwifty Swizzle

1 oz Mezcal
1 oz Lime juice
1⁄2 oz Falernum
1⁄2 oz Herbal liqueur, Green Chartreuse
2 ds Peychaud's Bitters (to top)
3 spg Mint (as garnish)
Instructions

Build all but bitters in Collins glass. Fill part way with crushed ice. Swizzle until chilled. Fill with more crushed ice and top with bitters. Garnish with mint bouquet

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Creator
Dan Wertheim, Seaworthy, New Orleans, LA
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https://imbibemagazine.com/schwifty-swizzle/

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Fair Harvard

2 oz Pisco
1 oz Bianco Vermouth
3 ds Orange bitters
1 twst Lemon peel (as garnish)
Instructions

Stir; strain; up; garnish.

History

A non-carpet-staining riff (akin to the White Negroni) on the old Harvard cocktail that was brandy and sweet vermouth.

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Robert Simonson, New York, New York (USA)
Source reference

https://www.fa-mag.com/news/the-easiest-cocktails-to-make-for-all-your-…

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Life's Not a Paragraph

1 oz Gin (WireWorks, see history, but others will work)
1 oz Light rum (Privateer, see history, but others will work)
3⁄4 oz Dry vermouth
1⁄4 oz Falernum
1 rinse Apricot liqueur (See instructions)
1 twst Orange peel (As garnish)
Instructions

Stir with ice, strain into a cocktail coupe pre-rinsed with apricot liqueur (1/3 bsp Rothman & Winter), and garnish with an orange twist.

History

A few weeks ago, Boston's GrandTen Distillery announced its "Collab Cocktail Contest" in conjunction with the Massachusetts Distillers Alliance. They were seeking a cocktail using two or more Massachusetts distilled products with one of them being from GrandTen. Since I played a role in guiding the flavor profile of GrandTen's Wire Works Gin, that made for an obvious choice. I ended up choosing Privateer's Silver Rum as the other Massachusetts spirit, and I took things in a split base Georgetown Club direction. For a little extra panache, I added in a bell-ringer -- James Maloney's apricot liqueur rinse that was his signature move in his 1900 The Twentieth-Century Cocktail Guide for Mixing Fancy Drinks such as in his Martinez Bell-Ringer. For a name, I wanted to pay tribute to a local writer, and e.e. cummings grew up around a mile from our house, and dubbed this one after a line from one of his poems.

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Year
2020
Authenticity
Your original creation
Creator
Frederic Yarm, Boston, MA
Source reference

https://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2020/05/lifes-not-paragraph.html

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Craig E commented on 5/22/2020:

If we have to find subs for the spirits, would you suggest basics (London dry style gin? column-still rum?), or do yours have a character that would suggest a different direction? 

yarm commented on 5/22/2020:

For a rum, a quality white one with a touch of character. Plantation 3 Star would do well here and perhaps even El Dorado 3 Year. Even a solid, clean white rum can be gussied up by subbing in a half or a full barspoon of rhum agricole or cachaça. Overall, flavorful enough that you know you're drinking rum as opposed to something more neutral. Probitas might be interesting too. Privateer has some elegant tropical fruity notes and is a high quality distillated (meaning it never needed to be mellowed in a cask to make it taste alright).

For a gin, to describe Wireworks -- presence of juniper but not necessarily an aggressive one. Decent fruit notes with light spice. Drinkable neat. So perhaps a lighter style of dry gin like Plymouth or Aviation would work (less Beefeater or Tanqueray).

I didn't mean for this to be so brand specific -- it was just part of the drink's genesis.

Tan Line Spritz

1 oz Dry vermouth
1 oz Cappelletti Aperitivo
1 oz Watermelon juice
1 pn Salt (generous pinch)
2 oz Prosecco (to top)
1 sli Lemon (as garnish)
1 lf Lemon (as garnish)
Instructions

Build in a wine glass with ice, stir, top, and garnish.

History

In the Negroni Sbagliato vein.

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Creator
Stacey Swenson, Dante, New York, New York (USA)
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https://punchdrink.com/recipes/tan-line-spritz/

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Suze in Paradise

1 1⁄2 oz Suze
1⁄2 oz Creme de Framboise
3 oz PInk grapefruit juice
3 1⁄2 oz Tonic water
Instructions

Mix everything except tonic in globlet or wine glass; add tonic and fill with ice; garnish with citrus twist

Notes

Recipe encourages subbing cassis for framboise and 3-4 oz of tonic.

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Creator
Quentin Chapuis, Fédération Française de l'Apéritif, Paris, France
Source reference

"Drinking French" (2020) by David Lebovitz, page 91

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  • Extremely nice way to start an evening. I'd take this over a Campari spritz any day. And I love a good spritz! Made w/ cassis.
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Last Resort (PaaDee)

3⁄4 oz Gin (pineapple infused)
3⁄4 oz Herbal liqueur, Green Chartreuse
3⁄4 oz Lime juice
1⁄2 oz Crème de Banane
1⁄4 oz Cognac
1 ds Mezcal (spray, as a garnish)
Instructions

Shake, double strain, garnish with a mezcal spritz.

Notes

To make the pineapple infused gin, add the trimmings from one pineapple to a 750 of gin. Rest 24-48 hours, then strain and bottle.

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Year
2018
Authenticity
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Creator
Jon Lewis, PaaDee, Portland, Oregon
Source reference

https://imbibemagazine.com/the-last-resort/

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Cleaned this up a bit. Rewrote instructions for the gin to avoid copyright. Changed the name of this to Last Resort (PaaDee) - I doubt anyone outside of Portland knows who Jon Lewis is. Thanks,  Zachary 

Tertulia

1 1⁄2 oz Manzanilla sherry
1 oz Dry vermouth, Miro Seco
1⁄2 oz Cynar
1 ds Celery bitters
1 Olive (As garnish)
Instructions

Stir, strain, up.

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Year
2020
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Creator
Rafa García Febles, NYC.
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  • Light, dry, saline.
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1 oz Dry vermouth
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1 ds Orange bitters
Instructions

Stir, strain, coupe.

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Year
pre-1934
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Unknown
Creator
Frank Claverie, Hotel Lafayette
Source reference

https://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2020/05/lafayette.html

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Sabre

1 1⁄2 oz Rum, Pusser's
3⁄8 oz Rum, Smith & Cross
3⁄8 oz Allspice Dram
3⁄4 oz Lime cordial
1 spg Mint (as garnish)
Instructions

Build in a highball mostly filled with crushed ice and swizzle. Top with more ice and garnish with mint tucked near a straw.

Notes

For the cordial (mostly Jeffrey Morgenthaler's recipe): Infuse the juice and zest of one large lime along with a cup of water, 250g sugar, and 1 oz citric acid sous vide at 190° for an hour and a half. Cool, refrigerate for a day, and strain solids.
For the pimento dram I used the Serious Eats website's recipe.

History

Starting point was Rafa's Cutlass (linked as reference). This is also in Ancient Mariner and Mosquito Coast territory.

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Year
2020
Authenticity
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Creator
Craig Eliason, Saint Paul, Minnesota (USA)
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https://kindredcocktails.com/cocktail/cutlass

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