Tortuga Truth Serum

1 oz Old Tom Gin, Tanqueray Old Tom
1 oz Apple brandy, Lairds Bonded
1⁄2 oz Demerara Rum, Lemon Hart 151
1⁄2 oz Orange liqueur, Grand Marnier
1 oz Pineapple juice
1⁄2 oz Lime juice
1⁄4 oz Orange juice
1⁄2 oz Cinnamon syrup (*peppercorn & juinper infused)
1 bsp Allspice Dram, St Elizabeth
2 ds Bitters (*Five Watt Sweet Fennel Bitters)
Instructions

Shake all w/ ice. Dirty pour into a halved, hollowed pineapple. garnish as you see fit.

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Jason Westplate
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2019
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Revenge

1 oz Blanco tequila
1⁄2 oz Suze
1⁄2 oz Mezcal
1⁄2 oz Herbal liqueur, Yellow Chartreuse
1⁄2 oz Lime juice
Instructions

Shake, Strain, serve up in a coupe glass.

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2019
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William Fortenberry
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  • Made with green chartreuse. Slight woody note.
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Best Pal

1 oz Rye, Rittenhouse
1 oz Cynar
1 oz Aromatized wine, Imbue Bittersweet vermouth
1 ds Bitters, Fee Brothers Orange
1 ds Bitters, Angostura
Instructions

Add ingredients to a bar glass with ice, stir, strain to a rocks glass with one big cube. Garnish with a orange peel.

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2018
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Beach & Panorama #4

2 oz Light rum, Bacardi (Gran reserva maestro de ron)
3⁄4 oz Lime juice
1⁄3 oz Rhubarb syrup (Homemade)
1⁄4 oz Ginger syrup (Belvoir cordial)
1 ds Orange cream citrate
1 ds Bitters (Bittermens Winter Melon)
5 lf Mint
Instructions

Mix, shake, strain in coupe.

Notes

Rhubarb syrup: 4 stalks, peel rhubarb, chop, heat with 7 oz water, let boil, and rhubarb get to the point of purée. Strain, then strain again with coffee flter. Add same volume sugar. Bottle. Fridge.

Rhubarb tartness is going to vanish slowly after a week. Maybe some malic or citric acid could remedy to the problem.

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Oghi

1 1⁄2 oz Slivovitz
7⁄8 oz Drambuie
1⁄4 oz Grenadine
4 dr Peychaud's Bitters
1 twst Lemon zest (as garnish)
1 sli Apple, Granny Smith (as garnish)
Instructions

Build in glass (Old Fashioned) On the rocks, obviously.. Garnish with lemon and apple.

History

Dedicated to Croatian soccer.
My friends know why.

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2018
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  • way too sweet - added 1/4 oz lemon but that's not the answer...
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JakGrabit commented on 12/30/2022:

Made with 1.5 ounces Slivovitz and 0.5 oz dambuie. Left out the grenadine. Used Hellfire Shrub and Pooter Smoke and Salt bitters instead of Peychauds - salt was a plus; smoke was not. Probably could have used lemon peel. Agree with other user: too sweet, but there's something there with teh Slivovitz and Dambuie. Tried a variation with Amaretto - no bueno.

A.Martini commented on 12/30/2022:

Thank you very much JakGrabit. Maybe a Laphroaig float instead of grenadine? hmm...

Caribé Sour

1 1⁄2 oz Allspice Dram, Bitter Truth
1⁄4 oz Virgin Islands Rum, Cruzan Blackstrap
1⁄4 oz Bitters, Angostura
3⁄4 oz Hibiscus Liqueur, FruitLab
3⁄4 oz Lemon juice
3⁄4 oz Egg white
Instructions

Dry shake, wet shake, strain into a chilled coupe. No garnish.

Notes

Lime juice also works well if you want a slightly more tart, less sweet option.
St. Elizabeth and Hamilton are considerably sweeter than The Bitter Truth pimento dram, so if using those you'd probably need to use lime and up the citrus to 1 oz.

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2019
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUivAoWCLak

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  • Very heavy on the allspice dram but works well. Lime improves things over lemon.
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Oaxaca Forever

1 1⁄2 oz Mezcal (Smoky)
3⁄4 oz Coffee liqueur, Bittermens New Orleans Coffee
1⁄2 oz Fernet Vallet
Instructions

Stir, rocks

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Distinguished Spirits
Source reference

https://youtu.be/EtG4pdk24o0

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Border Patrol

1 oz Fernet Vallet
1 oz Mezcal, Del Maguey (Vida)
1 oz Lime juice
1⁄2 oz Demerara syrup
1 pn Salt (or Saline solution)
Instructions

Shake, up or rocks

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Esquire
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https://www.esquire.com/food-drink/drinks/recipes/a23564/border-patrol-…

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Dear Fernet

1 oz Overproof bourbon (Stagg jr 129 proof)
3⁄4 oz Suze
3⁄4 oz Sweet vermouth (Lustau)
3⁄4 oz Fernet Branca
1⁄4 oz Orgeat
Instructions

Long stir, about a minute, strain in coupe

Notes

Sweet yes ! But my palate loved the taste it had.
I pretty much like how fernet and suze interact.

If someone knows a way to keep the flavor and lower sweetness, please, let me know !

I uped bourbon slowly to 1. 1/3, but fernet and suze vanished....

Maybe dry sherry instead of vermouth ?

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HallA commented on 2/19/2022:

It's sweet for sure, but with a bracing bitterness from the fernet so it doesn't taste cloying at all. Can definitely taste each part of the mix and agree with other comments that the fernet + suze is lovely, and I tend to think maybe more so with the Letherbee fernet I used that has a bit more saffron. Very nice.

Interrobang‽

1 oz Armagnac
1 oz Bénédictine
1 oz Cynar
1 Islay Scotch (spritz, as garnish)
Instructions

Stir, strain, lowball with no ice, garnish.

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Sother Teague
Source reference

I'm Just Here for the Drinks and https://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2019/01/interrobang.html

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  • I would agree that doing 1/2 of herbal liquor and 1/2 of benedictine and 1/4 of islay is spot on.
  • Enjoyable but quite sweet.
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Coadster commented on 1/03/2025:

Good but a bit too sweet. I did 1/2 of the Benedictine and then did 1/2 of an herbal liquor and then 1/4 of Laphroig and it seems a bit better balanced.

yarm commented on 1/04/2025:

Yes. Most drinks like the 100 Year Old Cigar take that 2 oz spirit, 1/2 oz Cynar, 1/2 oz Benedictine structure. I found 1:1:1 enjoyable but on the richer end of my limits.

noksagt commented on 1/04/2025:

I tend to share the preference for more spirit-forward and less sweet drinks.

However, I read this particular cocktail more as an amaro- and peat- modified B&B. The bottled version of B&B is 60% Bénédictine, and so we remain roughly in the ballpark here. Using a younger higher proof spirit works here too.

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