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Bay Leaf Irish Cream

1 1⁄2 oz Irish whiskey
3⁄4 oz Cream
1⁄2 oz Coffee liqueur
1⁄4 oz Crème de Cacao, Tempus Fugit
1 lf Bay leaf (as garnish)
Instructions

Shake, strain, up, garnish with bitters and bay leaf.

Yields Drink
Year
2013
Authenticity
Your original creation
Creator
Rafa García Febles, NYC.
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Average rating
3 stars
(3 ratings)
From other users
  • Substituted Baileys for the cream.
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Kentucky Dandy

1 1⁄4 oz Bourbon
3⁄4 oz Apricot liqueur
3⁄4 oz Lemon juice
1 ds Absinthe
1 lf Mint (as garnish)
Instructions

Rub mint leaf along the inside of the serving glass. Shake, strain, coupe, garnish with a slapped and floated mint leaf.

Yields Drink
Year
2013
Authenticity
Your original creation
Creator
Rafa García Febles, NYC.
Curator rating
Not yet rated
Average rating
4.5 stars
(29 ratings)
From other users
  • Reduced lemon to 1 oz instead of 1.5 — ★★★★
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Cara A commented on 7/14/2022:

I often find lemon juice overwhelms other flavors, so in future I’ll only use 1/2 oz per drink. Nicely balanced drink overall!


yarm commented on 9/20/2024:

To my palate, I would make this again in a drier format, 1 1/2 oz Bourbon, 1/2 oz elderflower, 1/2 oz apricot liqueur, 3/4 oz lemon juice, 1 dash absinthe.


DrunkLab commented on 9/22/2024:

Having not tried this in 10 years and having just made it Fred's way: I agree with Yarm.


Pimp Cup

1 oz Ginger Wine, Stone's
3 oz Lemon-lime soda, 7 Up
1 twst Lemon peel
2 sli Cucumber
2 sli Lemon
Instructions

Muddle cucumber and lemon slices in a chilled silver chalice, add Pimm's, soda and ginger wine. Stir and add ice to fill the glass, garnish.

Yields Drink
Year
2012
Authenticity
Altered recipe
Creator
Burt Reynolds, NYC, NY
Curator rating
Not yet rated
Average rating
3.5 stars
(2 ratings)
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Spindletop Swizzle

1 oz Virgin Islands Rum, Cruzan Blackstrap
3⁄4 oz Blackberry shrub
1⁄2 oz Lime juice
1⁄2 oz Falernum (Aperol Falernum, see note)
1 spg Mint (as garnish)
1⁄2 oz Demerara Rum, Lemon Hart 151 (as garnish, see instructions)
Instructions

Mix all but Demerara rum and mint with ice and give a brief shake. Pour over crushed ice in a Collins and swizzle. Top with more ice and mint sprig. Pour burning Lemon Hart 151 over mint sprig to create Spindletop oil gusher (it should extinguish shortly). Serve with straw.

Notes

A swizzled Corn 'n' Oil with extra oil, named for Texas' Spindletop oil field. Garnish inspired by Kirk Estopinal's Vellocet: http://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-vellocet.html . Aperol Falernum via: http://postprohibition.com/diy/aperol-falernum/ .

Yields Drink
Year
2013
Authenticity
Your original creation
Creator
Rafa García Febles, NYC.
Curator rating
Not yet rated
Average rating
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The Gateway

1 1⁄2 oz Gin, Hendrick's
3⁄4 oz Lime juice
1⁄4 oz Simple syrup
2 sli Cucumber (plus one more as garnish)
1 ds Bitters, Dutch's Colonial
2 oz Champagne
1 spg Mint (as garnish)
1 ds Herbal liqueur, Green Chartreuse (spritz, as garnish)
Instructions

Combine all but bubbly, muddle, shake with ice, double strain over fresh ice in a Collins and top with bubbles, garnish, serve with straw.

History

Originally made for the MOX.tv event Penal Code 415 in Manhattan, February 2013 under the name Opening Act, using Square One Cucumber Vodka.

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Photo by Alia Kahan for MOX, reprinted with permission.
Yields Drink
Year
2013
Authenticity
Your original creation
Creator
Rafa García Febles, NYC.
Curator rating
Not yet rated
Average rating
Not yet rated
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Craft Squirrel Sex Manhattan

3⁄4 oz Limoncello
3⁄4 oz Strawberry eau de vie (squirrel-infused)
3⁄4 oz Raspberry Shrub
3⁄8 oz Cranberry (Pickled)
4 pn Tartaric acid powder
1 ds Demerara syrup (3:1)
1 rinse Grenadine
Instructions

Plant, grow, ferment, and distill eaux de vie from lemons, strawberries, and Douglas Fir on-site in the greenhouse on the terrace of your Brooklyn loft. (Must be on-site. Must be Brooklyn.) Sweeten the lemon eau de vie with fresh cane syrup. Infuse the strawberry eau de vie with squirrel (fresh only!). Combine. Hand craft a barrel out of staves rescued from your father's first yacht and age spirits in barrel for six weeks or until you've grown bored and moved on to your next artisanal project, whichever comes first. Empty barrel, and heart. Combine contents of barrel (but not heart) with handmade raspberry shrub (with raspberries plucked from your significant other's father's estate) and authentic Maraschino liqueur. In a mortar and pestle, mash with pickled cranberries overnight. Strain. Ferment in the gullet of a hoatzin, the Guyanese stink-bird (for that touch of Demerara smoke!). Kill and gut bird; double strain. In Erlenmeyer flask, add tartaric acid (fresh squeezed only!) and Demerara syrup, then smash the flask over a rotary evaporator and evaporate its contents rotarily. Convert the remaining liquid into a spray and serve out of an atomizer inserted into the mouth of a grenadine-rinsed and hand-taxidermied squirrel (eastern gray only!). Splash Fernet Branca (or other difficult amaro) until fragrant. Serve up.

History

Adapted for the modern palate from a recipe by Jerry Thomas.

Yields Drink
Year
2013
Authenticity
Altered recipe
Creator
Dale DeGroff, Clyde Common, Williamsburg, MA, as told to Rafa García Febles over Slippery Nipples in Monaco.
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Average rating
4 stars
(5 ratings)
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  • hilarious!
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bza commented on 4/01/2013:

Minor quibble, I know, but this drink was originally served down.



Bajito

3 oz Rum
4 lf Mint
4 lf Basil
5 sli Lime
1 T Sugar
Instructions

Muddle leaves with lime and sugar, add rum, shake, strain into ice-filled rocks glass.

Yields Drink
Year
2004
Authenticity
Authentic recipe
Creator
Excelsior Bar, Boston, MA.
Curator rating
Not yet rated
Average rating
3.5 stars
(3 ratings)
From other users
  • Substute 3 tsp monk fruit for sugar
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Quin Quina Crusta

1⁄2 oz Lemon juice
1 twst Lemon peel (as garnish)
Instructions

Dry shake and pour into a sugar-rimmed, crushed ice-filled cocktail glass. Lemon peel garnish.

Yields Drink
Year
2012
Authenticity
Authentic recipe
Creator
Leo Robitschek, Eleven Madison Mark, NYC.
Curator rating
Not yet rated
Average rating
4.5 stars
(8 ratings)
From other users
  • At first I get predominantly the maraschino, but as I sip more it gets more interesting and delicious
  • perhaps a bit too much lemon, but sugar rim helps. Interesting mix of bitters and amaro/vermouth.
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Caesarea Cocktail

25 oz Gin, Beefeater
8 3⁄8 oz Aperol
5 oz Simple syrup (infused with 15 basil leaves)
12 ? Cucumber
6 spg Basil
10 ? Lemon
Instructions

Peel and slice 10 qucambers. Put in air tight jar, with 5 basil sprigs, gin and aperol for a couple of hours. Taste. Strain. Cut the lemons to cubes, muddle in large bowl. Add liquere, syrup, cucamber juice. Garnish with slices cucambers and basil leaves.

History

Was created for Passover BBQ in Caesarea. Inspired by Jim Meehan's Archangel.

Picture of Caesarea Cocktail
2011 Kindred Cocktails
Yields Drink
Year
2013
Authenticity
Your original creation
Creator
Gal Karni
Curator rating
Not yet rated
Average rating
5 stars
(3 ratings)
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Crenshaw

2 oz Bourbon
3⁄4 oz Lemon juice
1⁄2 oz Ginger syrup
1 T Peach preserves (or one slice peach)
1 bsp Honey
2 lf Mint
Instructions

Rub mint along the inside of the serving glass to express the oil and discard. In mixing tin, muddle peach preserves or slice in honey, add other ingredients, shake, double strain, coupe, garnish with a single mint leaf.

Yields Drink
Year
2012
Authenticity
Your original creation
Creator
Rafa García Febles, NYC.
Curator rating
Not yet rated
Average rating
4 stars
(5 ratings)
From other users
  • Delicious, accessible, complementary flavors.
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