Open Sleigh

2 1⁄2 oz Rye
1⁄2 oz Applejack, Lairds
1⁄4 oz Cassis
1⁄4 oz Lemon juice
1⁄4 oz Allspice Dram
Instructions

Shake all ingredients over ice in strainer. Pour into coupe glass. Express and orange peel over top and drop in as a twist.

Notes

Berry, citrus and spice.

History

The drink takes inspiration from wassailing, the holiday celebration to end winter and bring on a spring harvest.

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2018
Authenticity
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Creator
Ryan Bullard, Bullard House, Lynbrook, NY
Source reference

My brain

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  • Will try again with another rye - the current one, Balcones Texas Rye (100 proof), has some strong flavors that don’t play well with other ingredients. — ★★★★
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Beach & Panorama #2

2 lf Basil
1 rinse Absinthe (as rinse)
2 oz Blended rum, Banks 5 Island
1⁄2 oz Grenadine (Homemade, see note)
2 sli Lime peel
1⁄3 oz Dry vermouth, Noilly Prat (as float)
Instructions

Rub the inside of à coupe with basil, shake everything else, float vermouth.

Notes

Grenadine: Organic pomegranate juice+ same part sugar+ little heat

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2018
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Darwin's Hopes

Instructions

Stir with ice, strain into an old-fashioned glass over a large ice cube. Garnish with orange twist.

Notes

To make the banana infused whiskey, add 3 sliced bananas to a bottle of whiskey, rest at room temperature for three to four days, then strain out the bananas.

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Igor Skliarevsky
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  • Remarkably similar to the smoking monkey from Jamie Beaudreau
  • Made with bannana infused bourbon as I had some to hand! Bannana taste is pretty strong so think affect must be pretty similar
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Curated this slightly - rewrote instructions for the banana whiskey to avoid copyright (at least those instructions look like they were all over the internet verbatim). Thanks,  Zachary


Elk's Own (Paul McGee)

1 1⁄2 oz Bourbon, Heaven Hill (Bottled in Bond)
1⁄2 oz Ruby Port, Graham's (Six Grapes)
1⁄4 oz Cynar
1⁄2 oz Lemon juice
1⁄2 oz Simple syrup
1⁄2 oz Egg white
Instructions

Shake, strain into old fashioned glass rinsed with walnut liqueur.

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Year
2009
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Creator
Paul McGee, The Whistler, Chicago, IL
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Moon Watcher

1 1⁄4 oz Blended Scotch
3⁄4 oz Madeira (Rainwater)
1⁄4 oz Allspice Dram
1 Cranberry (as garnish)
1 twst Lime peel (as garnish)
1 ds Allspice Dram (as garnish)
Instructions

Stir; strain; Nick and Nora; garnish with cranberry, lime peel, and a mist of pimento dram.

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Brian Evans, Sunday in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York (USA)
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Church Bay Cooler

1 1⁄2 oz Gold rum (Goslings)
3⁄4 oz Passion fruit syrup, B.G. Reynolds
3⁄4 oz Lemon juice
1 1⁄2 oz Vanilla Soda water, DRY Vanilla Bean (top with)
1 spg Mint (garnish)
1 wdg Lemon (garnish)
Instructions

Combine ingredients, except vanilla soda, in shaker tin with ice. Shake and strain into an iced collins glass. top with vanilla soda and garnish.

History

Finalist cocktail for the 2018 Goslings Rum Best in the West cocktail competition held in Hamilton Bermuda

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Scott Diaz, Tacoma, WA
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Ocho Maneras

Instructions

Stir. Strain. Lowball with big ice. Garnish orange peel

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Year
2018
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Tom Oliveira
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  • Dry and floral
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Amaro Andrea

1 1⁄2 oz Amaro (Amarogutta)
1⁄2 oz Fernet Branca
2 wdg Orange
4 lf Mint
1 twst Lemon peel
Instructions

Muddle orange and mint with ingredients. Shake with ice. Strain to coupe glass. Garnish Lemon Peel

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Spinel Punch

3⁄4 c Brown sugar (coarse)
48 oz Tea (black, hot, strong - 6 tea bags)
25 oz Ruby Port
16 oz Cognac
24 oz Milk (Whole)
25 oz Cava (Pink, dry)
Instructions

Make an oleo-saccharum: peel two lemons and two oranges. In a medium bowl, muddle the brown sugar with the peels until the sugar is damp, cover with plastic, rest overnight. In a large enough to hold all the liquid sized container, add the milk then juice the lemons and oranges into the milk. Add the Port and Cognac. Add the tea to the oleo saccharum to dissolve the sugar, then strain that into the rest of the liquids. Stir to combine and to make sure it curdles and let rest in the refrigerator overnight. The next day, strain, then fine strain through a coffee filter into a clean container. This should be crystal clear. Refrigerate. To serve, add the punch base and the sparkling wine to a large punch bowl. Grate nutmeg, float some sort of decorative chunk of ice in the middle.

Notes

This should make 18 cups of punch, so 144 oz, which I'd say is 30 servings at about 22 proof.

History

This is a tear down and rebuild of the Black-Tea Port Milk Punch from Splendid Table, which itself was based on Jerry Thomas' Ruby Punch.

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2018
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Creator
Zachary Pearson
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Procrastination

2 oz Gin, Bombay
3⁄4 oz Limoncello (Homemade)
1 ds Herbal liqueur, Green Chartreuse
1 twst Lemon peel
Instructions

Stir with ice and strain into chilled cocktail glass; garnish with lemon peel.

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2005
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Creator
Paul Clarke
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  • just didnt do it for me
  • Upped the Green Chartreuse to 3/4 oz. — ★★★★★
  • I substituted Boodles gin, Dolin vermouth, and Yellow Chartreuse since I didn't have any green. This cocktail held up to all those variations. Delicious.
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I like this one a lot and have been using 2 oz gin, 1/2 oz Dolin Dry, 1/2 oz homemade limoncello and 1/2 oz Genepy since Chartreuse has been hard to come by lately.