Purple Manhattan

1 1⁄2 oz Rye, Bulleit
3⁄4 oz Amaro, Pasubio
3⁄4 oz Aromatized wine, St. Raphaël (St. Raphaël Rouge)
1 twst Orange peel (as garnish)
1 Maraschino cherry, Luxardo (as garnish)
Instructions

Add ingredients to a mixing glass with ice, stir, strain into a chilled Nick & Nora glass. Express orange peel and add to lip as garnish, add Luxardo cherry on pick.

Notes

I obtained the St. Raphael from London for historical cocktails, and liked its lush berry/grape flavor and color so much that I began incorporating into other drinks. I love the color that this provides with the Pasubio which has a potent musty blueberry essence. The rye provides a peppery backbone to balance the sweetness of the rest. (I am not particular about the rye chosen, so knock yourself out with your favorite.)

Color/appearance is dark, murky, slightly reddish and purplish brown.

History

I concocted this in August as a black Manhattan riff with loads of lush grape and berry flavor. I originally used just the orange garnish, and have added a dark Luxardo cherry since it fits so well with the motif and flavor.

I considered some Deep Purple references, but saved that for the Montreux, another Pasubio cocktail.

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2022
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Creator
Shawn C., home bar, Fresno, California
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Port New York Sour

2 oz Bourbon
1⁄2 oz Lemon juice
1⁄2 oz Simple syrup
1 oz Tawny port
Instructions

1. Add the bourbon, lemon juice and simple syrup into a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled.
2. Strain into a double rocks glass over fresh ice.
3. Float the port on top of the drink by slowly pouring it over the back of a bar spoon.
4. Give the glass a light swirl to move the port across the entire surface of the cocktail.

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https://www.liquor.com/recipes/new-york-sour-3/

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Tellicherry Chilicherry

2 oz Cognac, Courvoisier
3⁄8 oz Cherry Liqueur, Cherry Heering
1⁄2 oz Ancho Reyes chile liqueur
1⁄8 oz Amaro Abano, Luxardo
1⁄2 ds Bitters, Fee Brothers Black Walnut (optional)
1⁄2 ds Bitters, Fee Brothers Orange
1 Cherry, Luxardo (with juice)
1 pn Black pepper (finely ground)
Instructions

Prepare chilled glass by smearing lemon around edges below rim to wet, then rolling in ground black pepper or inverting glass and dusting the wetted portion. Add cherry to bottom of glass and use bar spoon to deposit a line of cherry juice along inside of glass just below rim. Stir cocktail with ice and strain into glass.

Notes

Use a relatively mild black pepper.
If substituting Regans' Orange Bitters for the Fee Brothers, cut amount by about 50%.

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2023
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Creator
Jeremy Klitzke
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Johnny Rose

3⁄4 oz Bourbon, Old Grand Dad
3⁄4 oz Calvados
1⁄2 oz Grenadine
1⁄2 oz Lime juice
1⁄4 oz Absinthe
1 sli Lime (as garnish)
Instructions

Combine all ingredients in a shaker tin with ice. Shake until well chilled, and double strain into a chilled coupe. Garnish with a lime wheel and serve.

Notes

This cocktail is a modification of a Jack Rose, a cocktail that now is too sweet and too tart. I feel like limes are much more tart now than when the cocktail was created. I belived this drink had promise (Much like the Amaretto Sour) and with a little modification i think this both highlights the bourbon and calvados more, while adding a bit of complexity from the absinthe.

History

The Jack Rose is a classic cocktail, but suffers from a balance problem. I attempted to balance it to the best of my ability.

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2023
Authenticity
Altered recipe
Creator
Nolan Merryweather
Source reference

Jack Rose

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The Civil Litigation

1 oz Brandy, Lustau Brandy de Jerez Solera Reserva (Or Torres 10)
3⁄4 oz Aquavit, Linie
3⁄4 oz Caperitif
1⁄4 oz Licor 43
1⁄4 oz Averna
3 ds Grapefruit bitters
1 twst Orange peel (as garnish)
Instructions

Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass. Stir over ive and serve in a chilled rocks glass with a large cube. Zest an orange peel over the top and garnish with the peel.

Notes

This rich, hot and spirit forward, syrupy vanilla cocktail is the culmination of all things. It will connect you with all the people who have wronged you and give you syruppy comfort in knowing that you were right.

History

The vision for this cocktail was born out of a consulting deal for a menu creation that went sour. I was asked by a new bar in the city (that wasnt open yet) to help build a cocktail menu they could launch with their open. We had a tasting and they loved all the drinks. I came back to them with a consulting fee and they felt it was too outrageous but we had a deal thast they would pay me for my time. They never did. I kept that hurt in the back of my mind and when they finally did open (and oh they have such bad reviews) if I were to see some of my cocktails on their menu I could threaten to sue, and I would be awarded for my hard work.

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2022
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Nolan Merryweather
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Shawn C commented on 4/29/2023:

Excellent, 4.5/5, bumping to a 5. These are some assertive components so I was worried something would clash (esp. the Linie or the Caperitif), but instead this made for a complex but rapidly consumed treat. I used Cardenal Mendoza sherry brandy, which I am quite fond of and which seemed to unite everything in this drink.

Havana Station

1 1⁄2 oz Rum, Havana Club 7 (Or Bacardi 8/Angostura 7)
1 oz Bourbon, Old Forester 100
1⁄4 oz Crème de Banane, Tempus Fugit
1⁄4 oz Falernum, Velvet Falernum
1 wdg Lime (Garnish)
Instructions

Stir over ice and strain into a chilled coup or rocks glass.

Notes

There aren’t too many rum and bourbon cocktails, but I think the banana notes in Old Forester really make this work. The bourbon needs to be 100 proof to stand up; the cocktail would be too sweet otherwise.

History

“A CIA spook stationed in the Caribbean in the late 1950s uses a bottle of bourbon to spruce up the local swill.”

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Rail-babbler

1 1⁄2 oz Jamaican rum
1⁄2 oz Campari
1 oz Orange liqueur, Grand Marnier
1⁄2 oz Lime juice
2 oz Pineapple juice
Instructions

Combine all ingredients with ice, shake, open pour or strain over ice.

Notes

A Jungle Bird riff, replacing the simple syrup with Grand Marnier to add a rich and decadent layer of flavor.

Named for the Malaysian rail-babbler (Eupetes macrocerus).

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Adak National Forest

1 oz Gin
1⁄2 oz Bison grass vodka (Żubrówka)
1⁄2 oz Zirbenz Stone Pine Liqueur
1⁄2 oz Herbal liqueur, Yellow Chartreuse
1⁄2 oz Aromatized wine, Cocchi Americano
1 twst Lemon peel (as garnish)
Instructions

Stir ingredients with ice, strain into chilled Nick & Nora or coupe. Garnish with lemon twist.

Notes

The gin and yellow Chartreuse are a nod the Alaska cocktail heritage. Zirbenz provides a pine essence, while the Żubrówka bison grass vodka adds a bit of vanilla and represents the tundra grass surrounding the tiny grove. Cocchi Americano provides some body and a little bitter.

There is ample room to increase gin and adjust other components to taste.

History

I was looking at the Alaska Forest cocktail, but the Douglas fir eau-de-vie and green Chartreuse are somewhat intense, and wanted to tone it down like the classic Alaska cocktail (yellow Chartreuse), but with some complexity, and retaining a pine rather than fir flavor. I remembered my time in Adak, Alaska and the Adak "National Forest" (https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/adak-national-forest) and I had to make a drink to celebrate those hardy little pines.

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2023
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Shawn C, home, Fresno, California
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Golden Bear

3⁄4 oz Honey syrup
2 oz Gin
2 1⁄2 oz Pineapple juice
1 oz Lemon juice
1⁄2 oz Bénédictine
2 oz Club soda
1 wdg Lemon (or slice, as garnish)
Instructions

Shake over ice. Strain into a collins glass filled with cracked ice and top with club soda. Garnish with a lemon *wedge* or *slice*.

Notes

A citrusy gin works best. We like Four Peels from Watershed Distillery or Malfy (original).

Other herbal liqueur (Chartreuse?) may also work.

History

Created to watch golf one weekend in April...

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2023
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Improved Morning Sour

2 oz Coffee liqueur (Rum-based (26.5%))
3⁄4 oz Lemon juice
1⁄2 oz Bergamot liqueur, Italicus
1⁄3 oz Agave syrup (Simple syrup works as well)
1⁄3 oz Chinotto (Chinotto Nero (Muyu Liqueurs))
1 twst Lemon peel (as garnish)
Instructions

Shake all ingredients with ice, double strain and serve in an old-fashioned glass. Garnish with a long lemon twist.

Notes

Chinotto Nero is optional, feel free to replace with extra Italicus.

History

Improved version of the Coffee Sour, which (in its more standard form) is served as a “Morning Sour” at Kavarna Moderna (a Cocktail bar in Ljubljana, Slovenia).

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