Blues from a Gun

1 1⁄2 oz Blended Scotch
1⁄2 oz Islay Scotch (Laphroaig is what I used, but whatever's smoky will work here.)
3⁄8 oz Herbal liqueur, Yellow Chartreuse (Can go 1/2 oz for slighly sweeter.)
3⁄8 oz Bénédictine (Can go 1/2 oz for slighly sweeter.)
1 ds Peychaud's Bitters
10 dr Absinthe
1 twst Lemon peel (As garnish.)
Instructions

At work: build in a double old fashioned glass, add a large ice cube, stir to mix and chill, and garnish with lemon oil from a twist. At home: stir with ice, strain into a double old fashioned glass with fresh ice, and garnish with a lemon twist.

Notes

Made with blended Japanese whisky at work (Suntory Toki) and with blended Scotch whisky at home (Famous Grouse).
For a slightly sweeter drink, I have used 1/2 oz of each liqueur for a total of 1 oz; however, a total of 3/4 oz seems to make most folks happy.

History

At Drink, there can frequently be a bigger call for Old Fashioned variations than for Manhattan riffs; sometimes a duo can order four rounds of two different Old Fashioneds meaning that I needed 8 to fit their specific requests. Sadly, I know more Manhattan ones for the structure allows for more adaptations including the fortified wine component. This is one that I crafted on the fly for a guest who wanted a Scotch Old Fashioned, and I repeated for multiple guests over the following weeks. The liqueur combination of Yellow Chartreuse-Benedictine is one that has worked since 1895 in the Widow's Kiss from George Kappeler's Modern American Drinks and the Colleen Bawn from Edward Spencer's The Flowing Bowl. Eventually, guests began to want a name, so I decided to make myself one at home. I ended up dubbing this Blues from a Gun after a song from the Scottish rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain.

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2022
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Frederic Yarm, Drink, Boston, MA
Source reference

https://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2022/03/blues-from-gun.html

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  • Riffed on this with 3/8 Strega and 3/8 crème de menthe for the liqueurs, and a mild Islay. And liked it.
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Craig E commented on 4/25/2022:

How come your customers don't deserve the same fresh ice you give yourself? :-)

yarm commented on 4/26/2022:

At work, they get beautiful bubble-free ice and a glass from the glass freezer, and the cube is still rather substantial after that chilling/dilution in the glass. So that's a step up. We build our Old Fashioneds at work which saves tools (I have 2 Yarai mixing glasses for 2 bartenders at my station) and time. I'm often not building single drinks but rounds as large as 9 this past week. It's logistics and consistency -- you can't stir/strain one time and build another. There have been requests for 6 Old Fashioneds at once this past month, and to stir/strain all of them would have it take minutes longer which means fewer folks can get served or get the attention they need.

PX & Rye

2 oz Rye
3⁄4 oz Pedro Ximénez Sherry
1⁄4 oz Sweet vermouth
1 ds Bitters, Angostura
Instructions

Stir, strain into cocktail glass. Garnish with 2 expressed lemon zests

Notes

Unsurprisingly with the PX it's very sweet and raisin-like but with a more bitter vermouth tastes really good.

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Strega Sour

1 1⁄2 oz Gin, Aviation
1 oz Framboise, Mathilde (Framboise)
3⁄4 oz Strega
3⁄4 oz Lime juice
2 ds Lemon bitters
Instructions

Shake with ice and strain into a frozen coupe glass.

History

In memory of a Naval Academy graduate.

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Burning Rubber

1 1⁄2 oz Spanish brandy, Lustau Brandy de Jerez Solera Reserva
3⁄4 oz Bourbon
1⁄4 oz Cynar 70
1 ds Chocolate bitters
1 ds Orange bitters
1 twst Lemon peel (as garnish)
Instructions

Stir, strain, express peel.

Notes

The sweetness of the bourbon and the sherry notes of the brandy prevent the charred qualities of the Cynar 70 from dominating this high-octane drink.

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lesliec commented on 4/19/2022:

Definitely high octane. Needs something to give it better mouthfeel and smooth it out - I tried gomme syrup, but that's not it. And I don't think the lemon garnish does it any favours.

Full Metal SWOpin

1 1⁄2 oz Whiskey, Glenmorangie (Malaga Cask Single Malt Whiskey)
1 oz Strega
3⁄4 oz Pear liqueur, Mathilde
3⁄4 oz Lime juice
2 ds Peychaud's Bitters
Instructions

Shake with ice and strain into a frozen coupe glass.

History

In memory of hanging out with a Naval Academy graduate on the Pendleton rifle range, full auto and free ammo.

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StregViation

1 1⁄2 oz Gin, Aviation
1 oz Strega
3⁄4 oz Crème de Violette, Rothman and Winter
3⁄4 oz Lemon juice
Instructions

Shake with ice and strain into a frozen coupe glass.

History

In memory of a Naval Academy graduate who never made it into aviation.

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Sensei

2 oz Jamaican rum, Appleton
3⁄4 oz Lemon juice
1⁄2 oz Simple syrup (gingerbread syrup—see Notes)
2 ds Bitters, Bittermens 'Elemakule Tiki
1 twst Lemon peel (as garnish)
Instructions

Shake; strain; up; garnish.

Notes

Gingerbread syrup: Bring 1 c. ea. brown sugar and water to a boil. Toss in 1 inch of peeled ginger, chopped; 8 cloves; 2 cinnamon sticks; 1/2 t. allspice berries; chopped 1/2 nutmeg and simmer covered for 10 minutes. Let cool and fine strain.

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Pool Drink

1 1⁄2 oz Rye
1 oz Pineapple juice
3 oz Ginger beer (Reed's Extra)
1 ds Bitters, Angostura (as garnish)
Instructions

Shake the rye and pineapple juice. Dump into a Collins glass, top with ginger beer, stir a bit, dash bitters on foam.

Notes

So I'm surprised this isn't a thing already. Rye + ginger beer is a thing, as is rye + pineapple. But I was in a pool at a hotel and the frozen Mai Tais were looking real sketchy. I had the bartender throw this together and unsurprisingly, it was delicious.

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Industry Flip (Fred Yarm)

3⁄4 oz Fernet Branca
3⁄4 oz Herbal liqueur, Green Chartreuse
3⁄4 oz Campari
3⁄4 oz Simple syrup
1 Whole egg
1 pn Nutmeg (Freshly grated as garnish)
Instructions

Shake once without ice and once with ice, strain into a single old fashioned glass or a cocktail coupe, and garnish with freshly grated nutmeg.

Notes

I also made a lighter variation using Cynar instead of Fernet that worked well too. See source reference link for more information on that. Also, I was unaware of Kindred Cocktails' Applejack's creation of the same name but took things in an absinthe instead of Campari direction.

History

Every once in a while when I have bar guests at Drink who want weird cocktails, I opt for Ted Kilgore's Industry Sour which is essentially a Fernet-Chartreuse "Daiquiri." Also in that vein is the Campari-Chartreuse Love & Murder, and I wondered if I could mash up these three elements into a Flip (also the Ferrari of Fernet-Campari connects the trilogy). Paying tribute to the inspiration, I dubbed it the Industry Flip.

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2022
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Frederic Yarm, Drink, Boston, 2022
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The Battalion Three

1 oz Bourbon
3⁄4 oz Chicory Liqueur, Cathead
1⁄2 oz Sweet vermouth
1⁄2 oz Mezcal
2 dr Bitters, Bittermens Xocolatl Mole
1 twst Orange peel (as garnish)
Instructions

Stir with ice and serve up with orange peel swath as garnish

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