Cask of Amontillado

3⁄4 oz Amontillado Sherry
3⁄4 oz Vodka
3⁄4 oz Gran Classico
3⁄4 oz Sweet vermouth, Carpano Antica Formula
2 ds Orange bitters, Regans' orange bitters
1 twst Lemon peel (expressed and discarded)
Instructions

Add ingredients to mixing glass, add ice, stir. Strain into chilled cocktail glass (Nick & Nora), express oils from lemon peel over top and discard peel.

Notes

Amontillado has a nuttiness that works well with Gran Classico and Carpano, but the combination can end up sweet and intense. Adding vodka to create an equal parts cocktail provides the right dilution of flavor and sweetness while maintaining the alcohol strength.

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Year
2022
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Creator
Shawn C
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Charlatan's Swizzle

1 1⁄2 oz Coca Leaf Liqueur (Cocalero Clasico)
3⁄4 oz Overproof rum, Wray & Nephew Overproof
1⁄2 oz Falernum
1 oz Pineapple juice
3⁄4 oz Lime juice
1 spg Mint (Garnish)
1 pn Nutmeg (Garnish)
Instructions

Swizzle all except garnishes with crushed ice. Garnish and serve with straw.

Notes

Not as intense in flavor as an actual (Improved) Chartreuse Swizzle, but the format still fits Cocalero Clásico (green Coca leaf liqueur) quite well. If you like one, you'll probably like the other.

History

I'd been looking for a decent use of my long neglected bottle of Cocalero. After trying the Improved Chartreuse Swizzle, I realized that a larger amount of Overproof Rum might balance out the substitution of the weaker (but still decidedly green) Cocalero in place of Chartreuse.

Named for the drink being able to visually pass for its original inspiration while using a less distinguished base ingredient. Also, CHARlatan/CHARtreuse.

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Year
2022
Authenticity
Altered recipe
Creator
Adapted by myself from recipe by Kaiser Penguin
Source reference

Adapted from http://www.kaiserpenguin.com/improved-chartreuse-swizzle/, which was already posted here: https://kindredcocktails.com/cocktail/improved-chartreuse-swizzle

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Beemer

1 oz Falernum
1 oz Aromatized wine, Cocchi Americano
1 oz Orange Curaçao
1 oz Lime juice
Instructions

Combine in shaker with ice. Shake 20 seconds. Strain. Coupe.

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Year
2022
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Creator
Tom Marrion
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Riverside Drive

1 1⁄2 oz Tennessee whiskey, George Dickel no. 12
1 oz Campari
1 oz Sweet vermouth, Carpano Antica Formula
1 twst Orange (as garnish)
Instructions

Combine over ice. Stir. Pour into chilled coupe. Garnish with orange twist.

Notes

The brands listed are what I used. Others would probably work as well.

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Year
2022
Authenticity
Altered recipe
Creator
America's Test Kitchen
Source reference

How To Cocktail (book)

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Miso Hungover

7⁄8 oz Worcestershire sauce
1⁄2 t gochujang paste
1⁄4 t White miso paste
1 2⁄3 oz Gin, The Botanist
5 oz Tomato juice
1 Celery stalk (as garnish)
Instructions

Pulse blend Worcestershire, gochujang, and miso in blender. Add to the gin and juice in ice-filled highball, stir, and garnish.

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Unknown
Creator
Tom Byrne, Rondo at The Hoxton, London (UK)
Source reference

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/dec/31/cocktail-of-the-week-rondo…

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Spiced Apple Cocktail

2 sli Apple
1⁄4 oz Agave syrup
1⁄4 oz Licor 43
2 oz Bourbon
1⁄4 oz Ancho Reyes chile liqueur
1 ds Orange bitters
1 pn Kosher Salt
1 ds Orange bitters
Instructions

Aggressively muddle apple slices with syrup. Add bourbon, Licor 43, Ancho Reyes, bitters and salt. Stir with ice cubes. Strain. Coupe.

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Year
2022
Authenticity
Unknown
Source reference

From a Hartford Courant article dated October 13, 2022 by J.M. Hirsch.

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Getting Ready

1 1⁄2 oz Herbal liqueur, Pomp and Whimsy (Gin Liqueur)
3⁄4 oz Amaro Lucano
1⁄2 oz Cherry Liqueur, Cherry Heering
1⁄2 oz Ginger syrup
Instructions

Shake with ice and strain into a frozen coupe glass.

History

The 22 November Soiree approaches, cocktail ideas continue.

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2022
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Creator
Carl N.
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The Distraction

1 1⁄2 oz Cognac, Hennessy
1⁄2 oz Bourbon, Angel's Envy
1⁄2 oz Amaro, Cappelletti Sfumato Rabarbaro
1⁄2 oz Elderflower liqueur, St. Germain
1⁄2 oz Meyer lemon juice
1 twst Lemon (as garnish)
Instructions

Shake briefly with ice. Serve with a lemon twist.

Notes

Not set on which cognac

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Year
2021
Authenticity
Your original creation
Creator
Helena Wang + Arthur Petron
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flickerdart commented on 12/22/2024:

Falls flat, to me - the sour and sweet is balanced but there's not much else there.

Havana 3 a.m.

1 1⁄2 oz Scotch
1⁄2 oz Jamaican rum, Smith & Cross
1⁄2 oz Swedish Punsch
1⁄2 oz Apricot liqueur
1⁄2 oz Lemon juice
2 ds Absinthe (I used 20 drops)
Instructions

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail coupe.

History

One of the recipes that I make for Scotch-citrus requests at Drink (Boston) is the Modernista recipe provided by Ted Haigh in his seminal Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails book. I took a page from the Havana Cocktail as adapted in Jeff Masson and Greg Boehm's Big Bartender's Book and added in apricot liqueur in place of the orange bitters in Haigh's recipe. For a name, I dubbed this one Havana 3 A.M. after the mid-80s rock group which took its name from a 1956 album by Pérez Prado.

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Year
2022
Authenticity
Your original creation
Creator
Frederic Yarm, Drink, Boston, MA
Source reference

https://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2022/09/havana-3-am.html

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  • Pleasant fruity and marzipan nose. Mandarins and nice spice on sip, some mint gum on swallow. A little green apple in the background. Some welcome drying effect on swallow. Sophisticated Scotch-y finish.
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Various Positions

3⁄4 oz Rye, Rittenhouse 100
3⁄4 oz Mezcal
3⁄4 oz Sloe gin
3⁄4 oz Cynar
4 ds Peychaud's Bitters
1 rinse Absinthe (Or Herbsaint)
1 twst Lemon peel (Oils as garnish)
Instructions

Stir with ice, strain into an Herbsaint (or absinthe) rinsed double old fashioned glass, and garnish with lemon oil from a twist.

History

I was inspired to tinker again with Phil Ward's Lipspin with its Cynar-sloe gin combination that previously led to my Perverted by Language. Here, I utilized a split rye-mezcal base and took things in a Sazerac direction. While crafting this number, a song from Leonard Cohen's Various Positions album was playing, and that ended up being the name.

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Year
2022
Authenticity
Your original creation
Creator
Frederic Yarm, Drink, Boston, MA
Source reference

https://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2022/10/various-positions.html

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