High Noon

1 1⁄2 oz Blanco tequila
1⁄2 oz Triple sec
1⁄2 oz Campari
1 oz Grapefruit juice (Pink grapefruit recommended)
Instructions

Combine ingredients in a shaker and fill with ice cubes; shake until chilled, about 10 seconds. Fine-strain into a chilled coupe; garnish with grapefruit twist.

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Naren Young, Saxon & Parole, New York City
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http://imbibemagazine.com/Simple-4-Ingredient-Cocktails

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  • Campari works well with grapefruit, but maybe a bit sweet. I think I like the 4x1 better.
  • I make it with about 4 oz of grapefruit juice and serve it on ice. Really refreshing and lovely.
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Looks like a riff on a Siesta by Katie Stipe, replacing lime with triple sec and upping the grapefruit to compensate for the lost citrus from the lime.

The Graduate

1 1⁄2 oz Sweet vermouth
1 oz Blended Scotch, Famous Grouse
1⁄2 oz Curaçao
2 oz Tonic water
Instructions

Fill a rocks glass with ice cubes and add the first three ingredients; stir to combine. Add the tonic water and lightly stir again; garnish with strip of lemon peel

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Daniel Shoemaker, Teardrop Lounge, Portland, Oregon
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http://imbibemagazine.com/Simple-4-Ingredient-Cocktails

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Used Cocchi Americano for the sweet vermouth. The resulting cocktail was light, but tasty due to the Americano.

2 Cups of Blood

3⁄4 oz Mezcal, Del Maguey Vida
3⁄4 oz Suze
3⁄4 oz Sweet vermouth, Carpano Punt e Mes
3⁄4 oz Bitters, Bittermens Xocolatl Mole
1 bsp Agave syrup
1 twst Grapefruit peel (expressed and discarded)
Instructions

Stir, strain, coupe, twist.

History

Featured in Beta Cocktails.

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2009
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Tonia Guffey, NYC.
Source reference

http://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2011/10/2-cups-of-blood.html

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  • Intense. Again, is it the mole i'm not a huge fan of? not sure.
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Dan commented on 11/24/2013:

Curated to add the missing agave syrup in the original source cocktail book, which is the second edition, known as Beta Cocktails.

It may be an exaggeration to say this drink changed my life, but not by much.  It certainly changed my approach to using non-potable bitters in cocktails, and has been an inspiration for countless variations of base spirit + amaro + aromatized wine + non-potable bitters for me.  I always thought this was one of the showstoppers from Beta Cocktails when I got a copy in 2012 (and I’ve made every drink from that book), and it’s still revolutionary today.  This is one of my go to drinks at a well stocked bar when I’m looking to showboat and get weird with my drink selection, and I’ve introduced this drink to dozens of bartenders over the years.  Highly recommended.

HallA commented on 2/06/2022:

This is kind of an insane cocktail. Even compared to an ango-colada or a Trinidad sour this is a lot of bitters and a very bitter flavor emerging alongside the brightness of the Suze and the grapefruit oil. It's a little too "dark" in my opinion and next time may try to split the mole bitters portion with ancho reyes.

yarm commented on 2/07/2022:

:This is kind of an insane cocktail. :
Price-wise too. That's $4 of bitters in that 3/4 oz which is the equivalent of pouring from a $140 bottle of spirit or liqueur.

The Trooper

1 oz Reposado Tequila
1⁄2 oz Cynar
1⁄2 oz Aromatized wine, Lillet Blanc
1⁄4 oz Maraschino Liqueur, Luxardo
Instructions

Stir over ice until well chilled, strain into chilled cocktail glass/coupe

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  • Triple this! — ★★★★
  • Love it. Could probably just skip the Maraschino. It's completely lost and the drink is a tad sweet in any case.
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Very tasty but tiny. Suggest 11/2oz tequila, 3/4oz each of Cynar and Lillet and leave the maraschino as specified.

8th and Collins

1 1⁄2 oz Pisco
1⁄2 oz Genever, Anchor (Genevieve)
3⁄4 oz Lemon juice
3⁄4 oz Simple syrup
2 ds Bitters, Angostura
1 Egg white
Instructions

Dry shake, shake, strain, up, garnish with three more drops of Angostura.

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2009
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Mike Ryan, Chicago, IL.
Source reference

http://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2012/05/8th-and-collins.html

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  • Pisco and lemon juice mix well here.
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Jägroni

1 oz Jägermeister
1 oz Campari
1 oz Sweet vermouth
Instructions

Build over cubed ice in a rocks glass, stirring enough to combine the ingredients without melting the ice too much. Garnish with an orange twist.

Notes

Where the Negroni has light herbal notes discernable around the edges of the Campari's distinctive bitterness, this variant has a subtle syrupy sweetness as well as peppery and spicy qualities not found in the original. It's an altogether rounder flavour. Jägermeister requires something powerful to temper its dominating taste, and the Campari does a very respectable job. It's a surprisingly convicingly combination overall.

History

This arose as part of my personal mission to include Jägermeister in serious cocktails, which seems to be a largely unexplored area outside of Jägerbombs, the less said about which the better.

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  • Syrupy.
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Funny, there was another Jageroni entered into MxMo LXXI. Though that one used Jagermeister as a substitute for the sweet vermouth.

This sounds good, and I applaud your project to treat Jägermeister as a serious cocktail ingredient, but this drink could only be improved by being renamed the Jäbroni.

Death in the Gulf Stream

3 oz Genever
1 Key lime (juice and peel)
4 ds Bitters, Angostura (large dashes)
1 t Sugar (optional)
Instructions

Muddle lime peel in lime juice, fill a Collins with crushed ice, add Angostura, lime juice/peel, and Genever, stir. Or, in Baker-ese: "Take a tall thin water tumbler and fill it with finely cracked ice. Lace this broken debris with 4 good purple splashes of Angostura, add the juice and crushed peel of 1 green lime, and fill glass almost full with Holland gin."

Notes

Baker again: "No sugar, no fancying. It’s strong, it’s bitter – but so is English ale strong and bitter, in many cases. We don’t add sugar to ale, and we don’t need sugar in a Death in the Gulf Stream – or at least not more than 1 tsp. Its tartness and its bitterness are its chief charm. It is reviving and refreshing; cools the blood and inspires renewed interest in food, companions and life."

History

Appears in Charles H. Baker's The Gentleman's Companion: Around the World with Knife, Fork and Spoon

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Ernest Hemingway
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http://12bottlebar.com/2011/01/death-in-the-gulf-stream/

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  • Disagreed with the first sip as bitter and kind of medicinal, but this grew on me.
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The Botanist

1 1⁄2 oz Gin, Art in the Age Sage
1 1⁄2 oz Aromatized wine, Cocchi Americano
1 twst Lemon peel
2 ds Orange bitters, Regans' orange bitters
Instructions

Stir with ice, up, twist.

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Peyton
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Savoy Cocktail Book

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  • Made with Plymouth navy strength. Bitters and Cocchi combine to contribute an almost tonic-like finish.
  • 5/19/19: only changes: 1.25 oz Plymouth navy strength and served over one large cube. Prefer this to a martini.
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Don't really get this recipe--isn't Art in the Age Sage a liqueur rather than a gin? And what' s the reference to the Savoy book? Anyway, made it with Plymouth navy strength and enjoyed it!

El Camino (Trina Sturm)

2 1⁄2 oz Reposado Tequila, Chinaco
1⁄2 oz Xtabentun (Mexican honey liqueur)
4 ds Bitters, Bittermens Xocolatl Mole (two full droppers)
Instructions

Stir, strain, rocks.

Notes

Yarm: "[T]he end result was very much in line with a Mexican Rusty Nail, albeit one with some extra anise and chocolate notes instead of heather and peat ones in the Scotch-Drambuie version."

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2011
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Trina Sturm, Trina's Starlite Lounge, Somerville, MA.
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http://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2011/08/causeway.html

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Le Nouveau Moureaux

2 oz Bourbon
1⁄2 oz Suze
1⁄2 oz Demerara syrup (2:1)
2 ds Grapefruit bitters
Instructions

Stir all ingredients in an ice-filled mixing glass and strain into a chilled coupe.

History

Named this for the inventor of Suze, Messr. Fernand Moureaux

Picture of Le Nouveau Moureaux
2011 Kindred Cocktails
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  • Totally inoffensive but nothing special. 2.5★
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