The Fogcutter

2 oz Puerto Rican Rum (Light)
1 oz Brandy
1⁄2 oz Gin
1⁄2 oz Orgeat
1⁄2 oz Cream Sherry (or other sweet Sherry, as float)
Instructions

Add all ingredients, except sherry, to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake hard and strain into a highball or Tiki glass filled with ice. Float the sweet sherry on top.

Notes

There are a lot of variations of this drink. While sherry is traditional, a cherry brandy (such as Cherry Herring) float, is a popular variation. Some versions sub equal parts lemon and lime for lemon. Some swap out the brandy for Pisco. Some swap the light rum for gold rum.

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Year
1947
Authenticity
Authentic recipe
Creator
"Trader" Vic Bergeron
Source reference

Beachbum Berry Remixed, pg. 48

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  • Make this with pisco by smugglers cove
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Cleaned this up a lot. It now conforms to the original recipe quoted in Beachbum Berry Remixed. Kaiser Penguin has a good comparison of the various Fogcutter recipes floating around the Internet, but basically says that the orange juice is the dangerous part of this drink and the goal is to get it into balance with everything else. Some of the many variations are noted in the Notes section.


Seventh Heaven

1 3⁄4 oz Gin
Instructions

Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake hard and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a mint leaf.

Notes

Swap out Gin, with Rum, and this drink is similar to the La Floridita cocktail.
Or swap out the grapefruit juice for lemon juice, and the drink is similar to the Aviation cocktail.

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  • I was surprised that the small amount of citrus worked for me here, allowing the sweetness of the Maraschino to come through.
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Tucker commented on 9/12/2016:

Prefer the Colonial cocktail, which has the same ingredients, but is heavier on the grapefruit juice and lighter on the maraschino. 


The Algonquin

1 1⁄2 oz Rye
3⁄4 oz Dry vermouth
3⁄4 oz Pineapple juice
Instructions

Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake hard, and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Serve straight up. No garnish.

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Unknown
Creator
The Algonquin Hotel.

New York City
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  • Feels disjointed. Improved with maybe ¼oz Elderflower but really not that great.
  • Shake for foam, stir for clean
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I have had this a couple times and not very impressed with it. Strange enough I was looking through the Craft of the Cocktail and Dale DeGroff had a completely different version but stated it was served at the Algonquin Hotel....hmmm either way it sounded tastier then the original I've always known. 2oz light rum, 1/2oz blackberry brandy, 1/2oz Benedictine, 1/2 oz lime juice. Shaken, strained, cocktail, cherry garnish. Anyone else read anywhere to substantiate Mr DeGroffs claimed version?


Is this the best drink you're ever going to have? Definitely not. But I have to admit this is one I come back to over and over again. Maybe it's just that outside of tiki there's not all that much to do with pineapple juice before it spoils, but I think it's more than that. This drink reminds me of a style of cocktail that  doesn't seem to exist anymore. I get the same vibe with a number of different classics that combine vermouth and citrus. It just tastes so unique. Every cocktail bar has the same menu of riffs...Manhattan, Old Fashioned, Daiquiri, Negroni, etc. but no one is making stuff that tastes like this. Sure it's a little rough around the edges, but that's what makes it so good.


SunRye

1 1⁄2 oz Campari
1 1⁄2 oz Rye
1 oz Orange peel (for garnish)
Instructions

Combine, add ice, shake, strain into chilled glass, twist orange peel

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Year
2010
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Authentic recipe
Creator
CarmelizedBunions, Chowhound
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  • Pretty good, but campari kind of takes over.
  • Need to try again with correct proportions.
  • Pretty darn good - like candied bitter oranges.
  • Willet Straight Rye — ★★★★
  • really nice; bitter, interesting
  • Used 1 oz Campari and 1/2 Aperol to good effect.
  • Reduce Campari to 1 oz — ★★★★
  • Nicely bitter. Not overly sweet. Angostura or Regan's orange bitters both work well — ★★★★★
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Dan commented on 9/27/2011:

Updated to correct an error in a quantity ("1 1/2", not "1 1/12"), plus improve reference. This is a very delicious drink.


Looks very similar to a Rittenhouse Eye-Opener that Zorn used to serve by request at Thatch in Portland, consisting of equal parts Campari, rye (Rittenhouse, naturally), and orange juice.


Smoke and Mirrors

1 1⁄4 oz Aquavit
1 1⁄4 oz Campari
3⁄4 oz Cynar
1 twst Orange peel (flamed, as garnish)
Instructions

Stir, stain, straight up, cocktail glass

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2009
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Unknown
Creator
Neil Kopplin, Clyde Commons, Portland, OR
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4 stars
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  • Yum!
  • yet to try
  • Quite bitter but not too bitter for me! Not really helpful to call this a Negroni variation. Made w/ Brennevín and subbed Grand Classico for Campari. The caraway from the Aquavit is mostly lost under the amari.
  • A terrific Negroni variant. Wasn't too bitter as I feared (a few drops of saline aren't out of place here).
  • Long cook or serve on rocks. Beautiful complex flavors, Negroni-like, lovely lingering bitter finish. — ★★★★
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Southside

2 oz Gin
1⁄2 oz Simple syrup (or 1 tsp sugar)
12 lf Mint (muddled)
1 lf Mint (as garnish)
Instructions

Muddle mint in shaker, add ingredients, steep if desired, shake with ice, double strain, straight up, cocktail glass

Notes

Some add a splash of soda water at the end. Others include a dash of bitters.

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  • Death and Co. suggest lime instead of lemon.
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yarm commented on 6/30/2022:

The original drink was a Fizz with both lemon and lime. Over time, folk chose one or the other and dropped the soda water part. Lime is truer to form since lemon + lime still tastes more like lime than lemon.


South Pacific

1 1⁄2 oz Dark rum
3⁄4 oz Orgeat
1⁄2 oz Lemon juice
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3 stars
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  • Too sweet for my taste. Maybe bitters to balance out, lemon or lime?
  • Flavours separate, but work together nicely.
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Solera

2 oz Dark rum (Santa Teresa 1796)
1 oz Amontillado Sherry, Lustau Dry Amontillado (Palo Cortado Peninsula)
1 twst Orange peel (as garnish)
Instructions

Stir, strain, straight up, cocktail glass, garnish

Notes

Lustau Palo Cortado Peninsula is describe as between Amontillado and Oloroso.

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Year
2010
Authenticity
Authentic recipe
Creator
Dominic Venegas, Gitane, San Francisco, CA
Source reference

http://imbibe.com/article/i-like-big-butts (really); Left Coast Libations, Ted Munat

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Dan commented on 10/15/2011:

Improved attribution, provided instructions, added detail to recipe.


Corrected spelling of 'Palo' in Notes.


To put on the wine geek hat for a second (ahem) Amontillado and Oloroso are the results of two very different styles of aging Sherry. While they're both palomino grapes, Amontillado is aged under flor and Oloroso is not, which is why Olorosos are much darker - they're not protected from oxidation by the yeast layer. Thanks,  Zachary


Correct regarding the veil. Fino/Manzanilla is even lighter than Amontillado, as it maintains the flor longer.

And Palo Cortado is accurately described as between an Amintillado and Olorosso, because, though aged under flor initially, it loses it sooner so has been aged oxidatively for some time between the two.


Two Indies

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