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Whiskey Sweet & Sour

Instructions

Shake and strain, with cherry garnish

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  • Very tart w/eureka lemons w/o simple syrup. We may try it with some sour cherry syrup that is sweeter than the Luxardo. — ★★
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Cherry Crush

Instructions

Shake with ice and strain, with cherry garnish

Notes

Variation on Dale DeGroff's recipe published in 901 Very Good Cocktails

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901 Very Good Cocktails

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  • Too tart or missing something. Not sure how to fix. I added .25 oz of simple syrup. Not better.
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Tequila Sidecar

1 oz Honey syrup (1 part honey with 1 part warm water)
2 lf Mint
Instructions

Add ingredients to a shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously and strain into a chilled martini glass.

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Añejo, Houston
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Delphine

1 1⁄2 oz Gin, Breuckelen Distilling Glorious Gin
1 oz Aromatized wine, Cocchi Americano
1 bsp Absinthe, Letherbee (Barrel aged)
2 oz Club soda
1 sli Tangerine
1 t Sugar, Domino (vanilla infused, see note)
Instructions

Muddle the slice of tangerine (peeled) with the sugar and absinthe in a Collins glass. Add remaining ingredients – except the club soda – and stir a few times. Add the ice, top with the soda, express the peel.

Notes

To make the vanilla sugar, I leave a vanilla bean, split and cut into a few pieces, in the standard container Domino superfine sugar comes in for at least a week.
The Breuckelen is rather grapefruit-forward and on the lighter end. I thought vanilla would go well with it, and Cocchi is always lovely, but this is almost too delicate. I'm open to suggestions.

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2015
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Two Apples

1 oz Pineapple rum, Plantation Stiggins' Fancy
2 ds Bitters (Clove)
Instructions

Stir and strain into a cocktail glass.

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2015
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Stew Ellington
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Wytches' Brew

2 oz Gin
3⁄4 oz Limoncello
1⁄4 oz Calvados
Instructions

Stir, straight up, no garnish

Notes

For the better drink, use softer London dry gin or switch to Plymouth gin.
Aside from Fernet Branca and Pernod Absinthe, my choice were Bulldog / Cuor di Limoncello / Christian Drouin Calvados VSOP.

History

Inspired by Omnia's song of the same name and Shakespeare's Macbeth (Act 4, Scene 1)

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The Jimmy Graham

2 oz Irish whiskey (2 gingers Irish whiskey)
1⁄2 oz Cynar
1⁄2 oz Bigallet China-China
Instructions

Stir over ice, serve up with extracted lemon peel

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Biff Malibu commented on 6/08/2021:

Chocolate start, cola finish. Skipped the sherry (mine had gone bad), and was thinking an aromatic might be nice. Green Chartreuse?


Zaya Shipwreck

1 oz Rum, Zaya
3⁄4 oz Lime juice
3⁄4 oz Simple syrup
Instructions

Shake ingredients strain into highball with fresh ice.

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Shawna Schweain
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  • This turned out way better than I expected. I did tweak it as such: I used Bulleit Rye ILO bourbon, Peychauds bitters ILO angostura bitters, and 1 whole shot of fresh lime juice ILO 1/2. — ★★★★★
  • I made this! its a hit at my bar — ★★★★★
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Hisurfadvisory commented on 7/03/2015:

refreshing and savory.  Highlights the vanilla notes in both of the liquors - happily I have both brands on hand.  cut the simple to 1/2 oz, slight over pour of fresh lime juice.  time to make another.  sip this slowly folks!


Smoked Jack Rabbit

2 oz Applejack
3⁄4 oz Lemon juice
6 dr Orange cream citrate, Bittermens
1 pn Kosher Salt (Garnish)
Instructions

Rinse chilled coupe with Laphroaig. Shake, strain, chilled coupe, garnish salt over drink.

Notes

My answer to the infamous Apple Jack Rabbit.

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2013
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Scott Diaz, Seattle WA
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  • Good, but next time, I might ease up on the lemon juice a bit.
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bkopynec commented on 12/08/2017:

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Honey Badger

1 1⁄2 oz Gin (Barrel-Aged)
1⁄2 oz Licor 43
3⁄4 oz Lemon juice
1⁄2 oz Honey syrup (honey ginger syrup)
8 dr Orange cream citrate, Bittermens
1 twst Orange peel (Garnish)
Instructions

Shake, strain, chilled coupe, garnish

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Year
2014
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Scott Diaz, Seattle WA
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