Celery Tonic

1 Celery stalk (chopped)
1 T Sugar
1 oz Lemon juice
2 oz Gin
1 twst Lemon peel (as garnish)
Instructions

Muddle celery with sugar and lemon juice for a minute. Add gin, shake for 30 seconds. Strain into a rocks glass, garnish.

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Year
2019
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Creator
Claire Saffitz
Source reference

https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/celery-tonic

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Craig E commented on 2/09/2020:

I'm a big fan of Claire, but using "tonic" in the name of this drink makes no sense; this is a Celery Gin Sour.

danoman89 commented on 5/09/2026:

Gin celery lemonade basically but somehow works extremely well, espectially with fresh ingredients

Diddlin' Dora

1 oz Amontillado Sherry (Oloroso would work well too)
1 oz Sweet vermouth
1 oz Pimm's No. 1 Cup
3⁄4 oz Fernet Branca
1⁄4 oz Maraschino Liqueur
1 twst Orange peel (As garnish)
1 pn Nutmeg (As garnish)
Instructions

Build in a Highball glass, fill with crushed ice, add a straw, and garnish with an orange twist and freshly grated nutmeg.

Notes

Woody spice and orange oil nose. Grape and berry notes on sip. Swallow offered nuttiness from the sherry and Maraschino and a light menthol and herbal finish. Refreshingly light yet flavorful.

History

For the Women of the Wild West-themed night that Katie Emmerson (then of the Hawthorne) and I did for the Whiskey & Amari/Spaghetti Western series at the Blue Room in 2013, we needed a tall drink. I decided to take it in a Cobbler direction instead of Collins or Highball. For a name, I decided to honor Dora DuFran, or more specifically one of her four brothels.

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Year
2013
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Creator
Frederic Yarm, Blue Room, Cambridge, MA
Source reference

https://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2013/02/diddlin-dora.html

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  • The nutty sherry note blends nicely into the fernet and cocchi di torinoa, particularly as it melts a little. Fernet is the overwhelming bully at the beginning and then falls off as you get used to it, still likely could handle a drop to 1/2 oz.
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Madame Mustache

1 1⁄2 oz Rhum Agricole
1 oz Drambuie
1⁄2 oz Cynar
1 ds Bitters, Angostura
1 twst Grapefruit peel (As garnish)
Instructions

Build in a rocks glass, give a quick stir (no ice), and garnish with a grapefruit twist.

Notes

The drink was served with aged agricole, but blanc would work well. And it was created with cachaça so feel free to substitute -- I did so when I put it on a menu for a guest shift at Backbar in 2017.

History

For our night (Katie Emmerson of the Hawthorne and me) of the Whiskey & Amari night series, we did a Women of the Wild West themed menu of 9 drinks to go along with the Spaghetti Westerns playing on the televisions. That night was the birthday of Matt Schrage, the series organizer, and he requested a birthday Scaffa to be created. Scaffas are old school room temperature drinks that would be cocktails if there were the water/ice component of the 1806 definition of spirits, sugar, water, & bitters.

Since neither Katie nor I had come up with a rum drink, I started on that route. Cynar and agricole were a natural pairing, and Drambuie provided the body and sweetness to balance the alcohol heat (since there is no chilling and waterization to balance that). I named it after one of the famous characters of the Wild West, Eleanore Dumont. Dumont kept her mustache that developed later in life and utilized it as a gimmick at the brothel she ran.

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Year
2013
Authenticity
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Creator
Frederic Yarm, Blue Room, Cambridge, MA
Source reference

https://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2013/02/madame-mustache.html

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  • I feared this would be cloying, but the bitterness of Cynar and a generous mist from my grapefruit peel helped. Still quite honeyish, but nice dark flavors too.
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Ripe Bananas on a Perfect Lawn

2 twst Grapefruit peel
1 3⁄4 oz Mezcal (Blanco)
3⁄4 oz Grapefruit juice (white)
3⁄4 oz Crème de Banane, Giffard
1⁄2 oz Pineapple syrup
1⁄4 oz Suze
Instructions

Shake everything, fine strain into a coupe.

Notes

The grapefruit + banana interplay comes from the cited link. It really needs white grapefruit - even Oro Blancos need a touch of citric acid per ounce. There are so few bright cocktail acids... why did people have to go screwing with grapefruit?

History

Https://cocktailwonk.com/2018/03/banana-life-pagan-idol-original-tiki.html

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Year
2020
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Creator
Zachary Pearson
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Splifficated Beat

1 1⁄2 oz Gin
2 t Curaçao, Pierre Ferrand Dry Curaçao
7⁄8 oz Beet syrup
7⁄8 oz Lime juice
1 ds Bitters, Fee Brothers Black Walnut
1 twst Lemon peel (as garnish)
1 lf Basil (as garnish)
Instructions

Shake, strain in the old fashioned glass, ice chunk, lemon zest, garnish with basil leaf.

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  • no beet syrup, lemon or basil
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Daiquiri (Simo)

3⁄4 oz Demerara Rum, El Dorado 15
3⁄4 oz Rhum Agricole, Rhum JM (VSOP)
1⁄2 oz Overproof rum (Barrell Jamaica batch 1)
1 oz Lime juice
2⁄3 oz Cane syrup
Instructions

Shake it until hands feel glued to the tins, then immediately strain, no garnish.

Notes

The Barrell rum is Jamaican pot still rum, aged for 7 years in previously used bourbon barrels and bottled at cask strength - 134.73 proof.

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Year
2019
Authenticity
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Creator
Joaquín Simó
Source reference

https://www.rumreader.com/the-daiquiri-dossier-a-symposium-in-new-york-…

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Zachary Pearson commented on 2/05/2020:

Curated this - changed the last rum to the correct spec in the article. Not that a lot of people are going to have it. Maybe a Velier Hampden - S&C isn't aged enough. Thanks,  Zachary

Pangolindo commented on 3/27/2020:

Used for the overproof rum a white agricole rum (Longueteau 62%) with great results despite being unaged.

It brings minerality and freshness to the mix.

Margaladaoma

1 bsp Pomegranate molasses
2 ds Soy sauce
1⁄4 oz Hot sauce, Sriracha
1⁄2 oz Honey syrup
3⁄4 oz Tequila
1 oz Ale (yuzu)
1 wdg Lime (as garnish)
Instructions

Rim a Collins glass with salt. Combine all ingredients except for ale and shake with ice. Strain into the glass and top with yuzu ale. Garnish.

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Jane Danger, Mother of Pearl | New York City
Source reference

https://punchdrink.com/recipes/jane-dangers-margaladaoma/

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The Tijuana Rocket

1 1⁄2 oz Reposado Tequila
3⁄4 oz Pomegranate molasses
3⁄4 oz Lime juice
1 cube Green bell pepper
1 sli Jalapeño (wheel)
Instructions

Add everything to a tin and muddle the veggies. Shake and fine strain into a coupe.

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Creator
Jane Danger, Mother of Pearl
Source reference

https://punchdrink.com/recipes/the-tijuana-rocket/

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Ciudad Vieja

1 oz Apple brandy, Lairds Bonded
3⁄4 oz Curaçao, Pierre Ferrand Dry Curaçao
1⁄2 oz Guatemalan rum, Zacapa 23
1⁄4 oz Bénédictine
2 ds Bitters, Bitter Truth Creole
1 Lemon peel
Instructions

Build in an old fashioned glass with a large cube, stir, garnish with express lemon peel.

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2012
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Creator
Alex Negranza, Liberty Bar, Seattle
Source reference

http://dev.gazregan.com/2013/06/29/101-best-new-cocktails-cuidad-vieja-…

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applejack commented on 2/03/2020:

While this build is fine (and the people I've made it for tend to enjoy it more than me), it tends to be a little curacao heavy for me, with the sugary sweet Ronnie Zac combining with it to have a strong candied orange note that's a touch off putting.  I like to sub Bigallet China-China for the curacao for a more complex, bitter, less orange forward version.  I imagine Amaro Nonino would work as well.  Also needs a bit more dilution than I normally do (50-60 stir revolutions, so an extra 10-15 is fine), and the expressed lemon peel is a must to cut the sweetness.

Poughkeepsie

2 oz Rye, Wild Turkey
1 oz Cognac VSOP
1 oz Sweet vermouth, Carpano Antica Formula
3 dr Bitters, Angostura
Instructions

Stir with ice, strain into cohoe w lemon peel

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