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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Yunnan Old Fashioned

2 oz Blended Scotch
1⁄2 oz Simple syrup (black tea syrup; see Notes)
1⁄4 oz Becherovka
1 ds Chocolate bitters
1 twst Lemon peel (as garnish)
Instructions

Stir; strain; rock; garnish.

Notes

Black tea syrup: Stir equal parts caster sugar and strong cold-brewed black tea until dissolved.

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Year
2022
Authenticity
Your original creation
Creator
Craig Eliason, Saint Paul, Minnesota (USA)
Source reference

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Cardboard Plane

1 oz Bourbon, Four Roses
3⁄4 oz Triple sec, Cointreau
1⁄2 oz Amaro Meletti
3⁄4 oz Lemon juice
1⁄2 oz Grapefruit juice
Instructions

Shake, double strain, double rocks, fresh ice, grapefruit peel.

Notes

I don't usually have good quality fresh grapefruit juice on hand, so I sub with 1/4 oz Giffard Pamplemousse Rose and 1 dash Fee's Grapefruit bitters, which works just as well in this cocktail. In a pinch, dab grapefruit essential oil on the pith side of a lemon peel for garnish.

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Year
2019
Authenticity
Unknown
Creator
Jason O'Bryan of The Lion’s Share, San Diego
Source reference

https://robbreport.com/food-drink/spirits/best-cardboard-plane-recipe-r…

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Carnival

1⁄3 oz Tea syrup (Recipe below)
3⁄4 oz Lemon juice
1 1⁄2 oz Rye, Rittenhouse 100
1⁄2 oz Grapefruit liqueur, Giffard
1⁄2 oz Aperol
1 ds Bitters, Fee Brothers Orange
1⁄8 oz Herbal liqueur, Green Chartreuse
Instructions

Shake, double strain, fresh ice, double rocks. Spritz or float green chartreuse. Garnish with three Albanese brand gummy bears on a cocktail pick.

Notes

This drink needs a little more dilution than typical, so shake a few extra seconds.

*African nectar tea syrup: brew 3 Tbsp loose “Mighty Leaf Organic African Nectar” tea (fruity, floral, rooibos) in 9 oz boiling water: add 1 Tbsp at 0 minutes, 1 Tbsp at 3 minutes, and 1 Tbsp at 5 minutes. Strain at 7 minutes. (Adding the tea incrementally preserves more of the tea's floral and fruity properties.) Dissolve 1 cup white sugar. Cool. Add 1/2 oz everclear or a pinch of citric acid as preservative. Lasts several weeks in the fridge. Freeze for extended periods of time.

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Year
2017
Authenticity
Unknown
Creator
Andrews Balduino, Plat 99, Indianapolis
Source reference

Quantities have been reverse engineered from tasting the cocktail.

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