Showing posts with label #aromatic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #aromatic. Show all posts

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Whiskey Kiss

1 1/2 oz rye
3/4 oz green Chartreuse
3/4 oz Benedictine
3/4 oz lemon juice
2 dashes Fee's Old Fashion bitters

Shake; strain; cocktail glass; marasca cherry.

Monday, July 5, 2010

Old Hickory

1 oz dry vermouth
1 oz sweet vermouth
1 dash orange bitters
2 dashes Peychaud's bitters

Stir; strain; cocktail glass; orange twist.

Saratoga

1 oz Cognac
1 oz rye
1 oz sweet vermouth
2 dashes Angostura bitters

Stir; strain; cocktail glass; float a quarter-wheel of lemon

Star Cocktail

1 1/2 oz apple brandy
1/2 tsp simple syrup
3 dashes Peychaud's bitters
1 1/2 oz sweet vermouth

Stir; strain; lemon peel.

Metropole

1 1/2 oz Cognac
1 1/2 oz dry vermouth
1/2 tsp simple syrup
2 dashes Peychaud's bitters
1 dash orange bitters

Stir; strain; cocktail glass; marasca cherry.

Turf Club

1 1/2 oz Old Tom gin
1 1/2 oz sweet vermouth
2-3 dashes Angostura bitters

Stir; strain; cocktail glass.

Vermouth Cocktail (Fancy)

2 oz sweet vermouth
2 dashes Angostura bitters
1 tsp maraschino liqueur
1/4 lemon wheel

Stir all but lemon; strain; cocktail glass; float lemon wheel.

Vermouth Cocktail (French)

1 1/2 oz dry vermouth
3 dashes Angostura bitters
1/2 tsp simple syrup

Stir; strain; cocktail glass; lemon twist.

Vermouth Cocktail (Italian)

2 oz red vermouth (chilled)
Angostura bitters to taste (unless Carpano Antica is used)

Stir with ice; strain; lemon twist.

Buck and Breck

1 1/2 oz Cognac
1 dash absinthe
2 dashes Angostura bitters
champagne

Fill a lowball or a champagne flute with water and throw it out. Then add white sugar and throw it out, leaving a coated glass. Add all but champagne to the glass, then fill with champagne.

Prince of Wales

1 1/2 oz rye
1/4 tsp maraschino liqueur
1 oz champagne
1 tsp simple syrup
small square pineapple

Combine and stir all but champagne with crushed ice. Top with champagne and a lemon twist.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Valentino

2 oz London dry gin
1/2 oz Campari
1/2 oz sweet vermouth

Stir; strain; cocktail glass; orange twist.

The Third Degree, or Martini with a Spot

2 1/2 oz London dry gin
1/2 oz dry vermouth
1 drop absinthe

Stir; strain; cocktail glass; lemon twist.

Preakness Cocktail

2 oz bourbon or rye
1 oz sweet vermouth
1/4 oz Benedictine
2 dashes Angostura bitters

Stir; strain; cocktail glass; lemon twist.

Paddy Cocktail

2 oz Irish whiskey
1 oz sweet vermouth
2 dashes Angostura bitters

Stir; strain; cocktail glass; lemon twist.

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Manhattan (Perfect)

2 oz rye
1/2 oz sweet vermouth
1/2 oz dry vermouth
2 dashes Angostura bitters

Stir; strain; marasca cherry.

Leap-Year Cocktail

2 oz London dry gin
1/2 oz Grand Marnier
1/2 oz sweet vermouth
1/4 oz fresh lemon juice

Shake; strain; cocktail glass; lemon twist.

James Joyce

1 1/2 oz Irish whiskey
3/4 oz sweet vermouth
3/4 oz triple sec
1/2 oz fresh lime juice

Shake; strain; cocktail glass.

Dubliner

2 oz Irish whiskey
1/2 oz sweet vermouth
1/2 oz Grand Marnier
1-2 dashes orange bitters

Stir; strain; cocktail glass; marasca cherry.

Flora Italia

2 oz Pisco Italia
1/2 oz St. Germain elderflower liqueur
1/4 oz simple syrup
2 dashes Angostura bitters
3 swaths grapefruit peel
2 drops rose water

Frappe (pack with crushed ice) a rocks glass, and set aside.  In another glass, stir pisco, St. Germain, syrup, and bitters with ice.  Discard the ice from the chilled glass, and express oil from two large grapefruit peel swaths, coating its interior. Strain the pisco mixture into the coated glass, and garnish with rose water and a grapefruit peel.