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Alchemist (Sam Fraser)

1 1⁄2 oz Mezcal
3⁄4 oz Suze
1 oz Orgeat
Instructions

Shake with ice and strain into a frozen coupe glass.

Notes

WOW !! This is wonderfully delicious !!

History

1) 04 January is Isaac Newton's birthday, and a suggested cocktail is The Alchemist. Here at Kindred that cocktail (by Gaz Regan) can be found.
2) I did a quick look over at Diffords and discovered a completely different "version" of the Alchemist by Sam Fraser ..... WOW !!!
3) My intent is simply to get this version "out there."

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Year
2017
Authenticity
Authentic recipe
Creator
Sam Fraser
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4.5 stars
(13 ratings)
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  • This is good, but a bit sweet. I'd half the maraschino liqueur. You can also do a rinse with an islay scotch if you want to boost the smokiness.
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HallA commented on 2/04/2023:

Made with Salers... which is not as bitter as suze and less vegetal / dirty. I think it would have benefited from the suze but still tasty.


Atlantic Autumn

1 oz Pear liqueur, Belle de Brillet
1⁄2 oz Lemon juice
Instructions

Shake over ice and strain. Garnish with a paper-thin slice of pear floated on the surface.

Notes

A sweet and lightly sour bouquet of fall fruit and baking spice.

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Small But Mighty

1 1⁄2 oz Mezcal
3⁄4 oz Lime juice
1⁄2 oz Passion fruit syrup
1⁄2 oz Crème de Cacao, Tempus Fugit
2 ds Pepper tincture, Scrappy's Firewater Tincture
Instructions

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with chocolate shavings. Cheers to Jack!

History

Created in memory of our beloved chihuahua, Jack.

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Year
2020
Authenticity
Your original creation
Creator
John Squire, Los Angeles, CA
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4.5 stars
(2 ratings)
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mlphilli commented on 3/18/2023:

This is an amazing cocktail. I'd been trying many different recipes with mezcal & passion fruit, but the crème de cacao balances it in a way that no other variation I've tried manages. I did not have Scrappy's firewater, so I substituted Bitter End mole bitters, which are quite spicy. I toasted to the memory of my pittie mix Loki and to Jack ❤️


(Fear is the) Mindkiller

1 1⁄2 oz Barbados Rum, Mount Gay
1⁄2 oz Cream of coconut, Coco López
1⁄2 oz Simple syrup (ginger infused, see note)
Instructions

Shake with ice, then strain into an ice-filled rocks glass.

Notes

For the syrup: Ginger

2 cups sugar
1 cup water
1-2 tsp peppercorns
3-4 inches of ginger.

Boil water & add other ingredients. Simmer for 30 mins. Then strain out ginger & peppercorns.

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Fancy Funeral

1 1⁄2 oz Old Tom Gin, Hayman's
1⁄4 oz Herbal liqueur, Yellow Chartreuse
1⁄4 oz Basil eau-de-vie, St. George Aqua Perfecta
Instructions

Stir, strain, coupe

History

Autumn 2022 menu

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Greenhorn

1 oz Melon liqueur, Midori
3⁄4 oz Suze
Instructions

Stir, strain, garnish with a green maraschino cherry

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Twentynine Palms

1 1⁄2 oz Tequila
3⁄4 oz Cynar
1⁄2 oz Lemon juice
Instructions

Shake with ice, then strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

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Year
2015
Authenticity
Your original creation
Creator
John Squire, Los Angeles, CA
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Evening in a Sugar Orchard

1 1⁄2 oz Bourbon
1⁄4 oz Maple syrup
1⁄4 oz Cinnamon syrup
1 twst Orange peel (As garnish)
Instructions

Stir with ice, strain into an old fashioned glass with fresh ice, and garnish with an orange twist.

Notes

An Old Fashioned influenced by the American Trilogy.

History

For an article, I needed to craft a few maple syrup drinks. This one is an Old Fashioned variation that I named Evening in a Sugar Orchard after a Robert Frost poem. I was influenced by the revised version of the American Trilogy (Michael McIlroy's original called for Demerara syrup instead of maple). And the cinnamon aspect came from my recent tinkerings that developed the Two Roads Diverged (also a Robert Frost allusion); the combination of cinnamon and maple also appeared in Death & Co.'s Ole Bull and Timothy Miner's Christmas in Prison. In the text, I describe how the "Bourbon is bolstered by rich flavors from an aged rum and complemented by maple, cinnamon, and bitters. While Bourbons are generally consistent due to the laws regulating the spirit, rums vary a lot. I developed this recipe with a local aged rum, Privateer New England Reserve, but I can see this recipe prospering with darker rums as well. Use what you have got and experiment over time."

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2022
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Frederic Yarm, Somerville, MA
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  • Cloyingly sweet (though in fairness to the creator, they do tell you that you are spending your evening in a sugar orchard). If you want an American Trilogy, just get that instead. This is *so much* sweeter than what it is riffing off of that it may as well be a different cocktail altogether. It'd be like if you claimed that candy corn was a "riff" on movie theater popcorn. Perhaps if the cinnamon syrup and maple syrup were meted out in teaspoons, the resulting flavor profile would be more similar to an Old-Fashioned. — ★★★
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Winter Manhattan

2 oz Bourbon
3⁄4 oz Averna
1⁄4 oz Bitters, Angostura
Instructions

Stir, strain, up. Ideally, garnish with three small red wine pâte de fruit shapes, as in the photograph. Orange peel studded with cloves works fine as a fallback option.

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Year
2022
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Creator
Natalie Weizenbaum
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Corpse Reviver #4

Instructions

Shake ingredients together with ice, and strain into a glass.

History

From Wikipedia entry: This recipe was a new variation at the Savoy's American Bar that employed Fernet-Branca as an ingredient, coming almost two decades after the corpse reviver appeared in the Savoy Cocktail Book with its #1 and #2 variations. Salvatore Calabrese states in his book Classic Cocktails that it was created by Johnny Johnson of the Savoy circa 1948, and lists it as a corpse reviver #3. Others believe it was invented later in 1954 by Joe Gilmore, also of the Savoy.

Besides Calabrese, the Fernet version is sometimes categorized by others as the corpse reviver #3, but it is not standardized and it is sometimes referenced as the №4.

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Year
1948
Authenticity
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Creator
Johnny Johnson, The Savoy Hotel
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4 stars
(5 ratings)
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  • Very delicious, but also very minty. Next time I’ll up the Fernet and brandy to 1oz each. Used Delord Armagnac and Tempus Crème de Menthe.
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yarm commented on 1/02/2023:

I've never heard of it called #4 before. It's generally known as the "Savoy Corpse Reviver" or "Corpse Reviver #3".


bkemp1984 commented on 1/05/2023:

I agree with the commenter who said they usually see it as "Savoy Corpse Reviver" or "Corpse Reviver #3". Even if the other ones on this site were possibly in books first, I've always heard this one as the one that became more famous as #3. I was actually coming on here to add it to the site, since I was drinking one and hadn't seen it!

Very good, used Leopold Fernet and homemade creme de menthe, Torres brandy.