While reading Nicola Nice's The Cocktail Parlor: How Women Brought the Cocktail Home book in the section mentioning the Sherry Cobbler, I was inspired to riff on Ada Coleman's Hanky Panky and transform it into a Vermouth Cobbler. Sweet vermouth and Fernet were a duo that worked in my Diddlin' Dora back, and I decided to make this riff an inverse Hanky Panky of sorts and include classic muddled orange wheels in the mix to smooth out the balance. I dubbed the result the Coley Cobbler after Ada's nickname at the Savoy bar.

Created for the Reddit Original Cocktail Challenge, July 2024: Tequila & cinnamon.
Name comes from the two inspirations: the Alexander cocktail and horchata.

After writing up Eastern Standard's Spanish Lady on the blog, I was inspired to riff on it. I felt that the Montenegro aspect was too bright and that perhaps switching from a light bodied rum to smoky mezcal could help balance that. Part of my thinking was that mezcal and Montenegro go amazingly well together in the 50:50 shooter, the M&M. I also swapped the original's lemon juice and Angostura Bitters to lime juice and molé bitters.

A spin on the "bro-mosa," a mimosa of High Life and OJ.

Spring 2024 menu

This is the most common version of the Boomerang, published in the Savoy Cocktail Book in 1930 and both The Cafe Royale Cocktail Book and UK Bartender's Guide in 1937.

First cocktail using my new bottle of Bombay Murcian Lemon gin.

Created by Okar, Applewood Distillery, Gumeracha, Australia. This is a riff on the Jungle Bird using Okar Island Bitter in place of Campari. (There are various completely different cocktails named Galah out there.)

The galah is a pink and gray cockatoo native to Australia, and in Australian slang, galah can refer to a fool or clown.