Final Ward Eight

1 1⁄4 oz Rye
3⁄4 oz Lemon juice
1⁄4 oz Herbal liqueur, Green Chartreuse
1⁄4 oz Maraschino Liqueur
1⁄4 oz Grenadine
1⁄4 oz Orange juice
1 twst Orange peel (As garnish.)
Instructions

Shake with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, and garnish with an orange twist (a cherry or a lemon twist or no garnish at all would work well here too).

Notes

Not as blaring as the Final Ward and not as basic as the Ward 8 but somewhere pleasantly in between.

History

Phil Ward's Last Word riff, the Final Ward, came into my mind. My brain free associated with the name and thought about the 1898 Boston classic, Ward 8. Those two drinks share two ingredients, rye and lemon juice, and one word in the name, so why not try to mash them up?

Yields Drink
Year
2019
Authenticity
Your original creation
Creator
Frederic Yarm, Boston, MA
Source reference

https://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2019/12/final-ward-eight.html

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4 stars
(11 ratings)
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  • Big Last Word fans. Love this when we have fresh grenadine after pomegranate season. — ★★★★★
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Christmas in Hell

3⁄4 oz Branca Menta
3⁄4 oz Becherovka
3⁄4 oz Cherry Liqueur, Cherry Heering
3⁄4 oz Lemon juice
Instructions

Shake all ingredients with ice for 15 seconds, strain into coupe. I've garnished with either a blood orange wheel (fresh or dehydrated), a single star anise seed or picked cherries depending on what I had ready.

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Year
2019
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Call of the Wild

1 1⁄4 oz Rye
1 1⁄4 oz Old Tom Gin (I also have made this with London Dry Gin.)
1⁄2 oz Bénédictine
1⁄2 oz Herbal liqueur, Yellow Chartreuse
2 ds Orange bitters
1 twst Lemon peel (As garnish.)
Instructions

Stir with ice, strain into a cocktail coupe, and garnish with lemon oil from a twist. In later iterations, I have garnished with the twist, so either option is fine.

Notes

Lemon, pine, honey, malt, rye spice, and minty herbal. The spirit duo here was based off a pairing in a house cocktail that worked rather elegantly: Gin Lane Old Tom Gin and Rittenhouse Bonded Rye. Feel free to use London Dry Gin for that's what I used after I left Our Fathers.

History

At Our Fathers, I did a mashup of two stirred drinks: the Alaska and the Frisco. The Frisco is the lesser known variation of the Frisco Sour that lacks citrus that I traced back to Boothby's 1934 book. What links the recipes together are two factors: first, the structure of spirit balanced by liqueur (the Alaska does have orange bitters while the Frisco does not (with Angostura, the Frisco becomes a Monte Carlo)), and second, both were sites of American gold rushes. For a name, I dubbed this one after a Jack London book, Call of the Wild, set in the more Northern rush.

Yields Drink
Year
2018
Authenticity
Your original creation
Creator
Frederic Yarm, Our Fathers, Allston, MA
Source reference

http://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2018/03/call-of-wild.html

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4 stars
(29 ratings)
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  • I used Chemist's Barrel-rested gin thinking this would be a good spot for it, and it really shone in this drink.
  • Pine. — ★★★
  • Green Chartreuse
  • Made with High West 2x & Beefeater. Tasting notes are accurate. The gin and whiskey marry well, perhaps surprisingly. Sweet herbs then spice.
  • Honey, pine, some burn from the rye. Used Old Overholt, Beefeater and Green Chartreuse.
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Ajvan commented on 12/03/2019:

Used what I had on hand--Old Overholt, Beefeater and Green Chartreuse--and enjoyed this. Tasting notes are accurate, nice wintry drink. 

Eyes on the Table

1 oz Mezcal
1 oz Byrrh
1⁄2 oz Aperol
1⁄2 oz Elderflower liqueur, St. Germain
2 ds Bitters, Bittermens Xocolatl Mole
1 twst Orange peel (As garnish.)
Instructions

Stir with ice, strain into a single old fashioned glass, and garnish with an orange twist.

History

When I started working at River Bar in March 2018, I was inspired by Byrrh Quinquina being on the bar. I then matched it with three ingredients that I have seen it work well with: mezcal, elderflower, and Aperol. For a name, I later dubbed this one Eyes on the Table after a work by Spanish born surrealist artist Remedios Varo.

Yields Drink
Year
2018
Authenticity
Your original creation
Creator
Frederic Yarm, River Bar, Somerville, MA
Source reference

http://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2018/04/eyes-on-table.html

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4.5 stars
(19 ratings)
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  • REALLY WANT TO TRY
  • Tasty but a bit sweet. Upped the mezcal and it worked better for me
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Rhein Airlift

2 oz Riesling (A sweeter one)
1 oz Amère Sauvage
1⁄2 oz Lemon juice
1⁄4 oz Braulio
1⁄4 oz Islay Scotch, Laphroaig
2 ds Bitters, Bitter Truth Cucumber
2 oz Soda water
Instructions

Stir all except soda water with ice, strain into a wine glass over big cube, top with soda water.

Notes

Suze is probably fine to swap for the Amère Sauvage, but add a little something like orange bitters to make up for it.

Yields Drink
Year
2019
Authenticity
Unknown
Creator
Micah Stupak
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(1 rating)
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Campfire Sour

1 1⁄2 oz Bourbon (90 proof)
1 1⁄2 oz Amaro, Cappelletti Sfumato Rabarbaro
1⁄2 oz Lemon juice
Instructions

Shake with ice, strain into double old fashioned glass over ice. Lemon wheel.

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Unknown
Creator
Haus Alpenz
Source reference

https://alpenz.com/recipe-0526-0386.html

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  • 1 part bourbon, 1 part sfumato, 2/3 part lemon
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hypoxic_ commented on 3/05/2026:

Its got promise, but agree that the Sfumato dominates a bit too much. Maybe try using less and more of everything else.

Sfumato & Rye

2 oz Rye, Rittenhouse
3⁄4 oz Amaro, Cappelletti Sfumato Rabarbaro
1⁄4 oz Lemon juice
1⁄4 oz Simple syrup
2 ds Orange bitters
1⁄2 oz Club soda
1 twst Grapefruit peel
Instructions

Shake, strain into rocks glass. Top off with club soda (optional). Grapefruit peel garnish.

Yields Drink
Authenticity
Authentic recipe
Creator
Food & Wine
Source reference

https://www.foodandwine.com/drinks/sfumato-liquor-cabinet-roulette

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Saint of Circumstance

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1⁄2 oz Aromatized wine, Lillet Blanc
3⁄10 oz Elderflower liqueur, St. Germain
3 ds Bitters, Bittermens Hopped Grapefruit
Instructions

Add ice to shaker. Add ingredients. Stir and strain into martini glass.

Yields Drink
Year
2019
Authenticity
Your original creation
Creator
Luv4music
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Jayhawk

1 oz Bourbon
1 oz Reposado Tequila
3⁄4 oz Aperol
1 twst Lemon peel (as garnish)
Instructions

Stir, strain, expressed lemon peel garnish.

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Your original creation
Creator
AJ Vanderhorst
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3.5 stars
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Home On the Range

2 oz Rye
1⁄2 oz Triple sec, Cointreau
1⁄2 oz Sweet vermouth
2 ds Bitters, Angostura
Instructions

Stir, strain, rocks glass. Orange peel garnish.

History

Dates back to 1945, Crosby Gaige's Cocktail Guide.

Yields Drink
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Unknown
Creator
Dates back to 1945, Crosby Gaige's Cocktail Guide.
Source reference

http://web.archive.org/web/20190818133319/http://www.barnotes.co/recipe…

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