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Negroni Cocktail

Base Spirit: Gin (London dry)
Style: Aperitivo / aperitif
POUR all ingredients into ice-filled glass and STIR.

Dry Martini #1 (Preferred 5:1 ratio)

Base Spirit: Gin (London dry)
Style: Classic/vintage
STIR all ingredients with ice and strain into chilled glass.

Aviation Cocktail (Difford's recipe)

Base Spirit: Gin (London dry)
Style: Classic/vintage
My (Simon Difford) adaptation of Hugo R. Ensslin's Aviation Cocktail in his 1916 Recipes for Mixed Drinks.

Penicillin cocktail

Base Spirit: Islay single malt Scotch whisky
Style: Modern/molecular
Adapted from a 2005 recipe by Sam Ross at Milk & Honey, New York City, USA. Sam’s original recipe...

Breakfast Martini

Base Spirit: Gin (London dry)
Style: Modern/molecular
This now world famous drink was created in 1996 by bartender, raconteur and long term President of the United Kingdom...

The Last Word cocktail

Base Spirit: Gin (London dry)
Style: Classic/vintage
SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

Gin Basil Smash / Gin Pesto

Base Spirit: Gin (London dry)
Style: Top 100 Best Known Cocktails
Created in the summer of 2008 by Jörg Meyer at Le Lion • Bar de Paris, Hamburg, Germany and originally...

Margarita on-the-rocks (Difford's recipe)

Base Spirit: Tequila reposado
Style: Classic/vintage
The traditional Margarita recipe is 2 parts tequila, 1 part triple sec and 1 part lime juice. This produces a drink which...

Old Fashioned Cocktail (Difford's recipe)

Base Spirit: Bourbon whiskey
Style: Classic/vintage
As with the Martini, the glass this cocktail is served in has taken the name of the drink. Its origin stems from the...

Mary Pickford Cocktail

Base Spirit: Rum light white
Style: Top 100 Best Known Cocktails
Created in the 1920s (during Prohibition) by Fred Kaufman at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba, for the silent movie...

Espresso Martini

Base Spirit: Vodka
Style: Contemporary classic
Created by the legendary Dick Bradsell in 1983, you can read the full story behind this popular cocktail, much of it in Dick's...

Manhattan Sweet

Base Spirit: Bourbon whiskey
Style: Classic/vintage
STIR all ingredients with ice and strain into chilled glass.

Honeysuckle Daiquiri

Base Spirit: Rum light white
Style: Classic/vintage
Adapted from a recipe in David A. Embury’s 1948 Fine Art of Mixing Drinks.

Blood and Sand (Difford's recipe)

Base Spirit: Scotch whisky blended
Style: Classic/vintage
SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

Sazerac Cocktail (Difford's recipe)

Base Spirit: Absinthe
Style: Classic/vintage
POUR absinthe into ice-filled glass, TOP with water and leave to stand. Separately THROW other ingredients with ice. DISCARD...

Pisco Punch (Prosser's recipe)

Base Spirit: Pisco
Style: Top 100 Best Known Cocktails
Jack Koeppler, the bartender at the Buena Vista Café in San Francisco who's also famous for being the first bartender...

Rum Old Fashioned

Base Spirit: Rum Aged
Style: Nightcap / sipping
Adapted from a recipe created in 2009 by Goncalo de Sousa Monteiro, Berlin, Germany.

French 75 Cocktail

Base Spirit: Gin (London dry)
Style: Champagne
Prior to the 1980s/90s, the French 75 cocktail was a long drink, served in an ice-filled Collins glass. This modern flute serve...

Bloody Mary (Difford's recipe)

Base Spirit: Vodka
Style: Top 100 Best Known Cocktails
Created in 2007 by yours truly (Simon Difford) at the Cabinet Room, London, England.

Ramos Gin Fizz

Base Spirit: Gin (London dry)
Style: Classic/vintage
SHAKE first 8 ingredients with ice and strain back into shaker. DRY SHAKE without ice and strain into chilled glass (no...

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