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This pink, gin-based drink is light and fruity with lime juice balancing sweet raspberry liqueur and lengthened with ginger ale. Some make this with raspberry...
It’s my first foray into the use of orgeat. It is a tad sweet but a little boost of the lemon would resolve that. I found it balanced and enjoyed the vodka x triple sec x lemon interaction . The orgeat pulls it together with the fragrant mouthfeel. I will make it again.
Delicious cocktail, although I find it is a bit farfetched to see it as "Paper Plane" variant. IMHO it needs a bit balancing as it is on the sweet side.
Pronounced 'Kai-Pur-Een-Ya', this traditional Brazilian cocktail is made by muddling limes with sugar and then adding cachaça and ice. It's a simple rustic...
I'm not so sure about the use of Amaro Lucano for the amaro part. Might retry with Amaro Formidabile or Amaro Nardini. The deep smokiness is a treat however.
Love a Paper Plane as-is, but felt obliged to try my own Mr. Potato Head variation. Because this one goes dark, I’m calling it a Stealth Bomber:
0.75oz Wild Turkey 101 (50.5% - I think I would bump to 1oz if using regular strength bourbon)
0.75oz Zucca
0.75oz Montenegro
0.75oz lemon juice
Express a grapefruit swath over the top and discard.
A riff on a Sweet Manhattan with high-strength bourbon conscripted to resist domination by an alliance of carciofo amaro and rosso vermouth. The bourbon...
This one proved too sweet for my palate - a bit like drinking a jar of strawberry jam. Admittedly, the vermouth I had to hand was alla vaniglia style (Carpano Antica Formula). I might try with a dry vermouth, which would bring it closer to a Brooklyn. Has anyone given that a go?
Genius. Right in so many ways eg easy to remember, easy to explain to barmen, not too boozy, and very, very tasty. Can't imagine why no one has done it before but full marks. Actually, deduct half a point for the name. No Wodehouse or Waugh reference? Surely you can do better than that, Jason.
I used Phantoom Distillery's Spirited Apple Orchard, Alpine sugar-free apple cider mix, and DaVinci cinnamon syrup--it turned out HOLY SMOKES good!! Tartness on the back end, the perfect light cinnamon note, and apple flavor that knocks your socks off! One of the best cocktails I've had in recent memory. It's definitely a keeper!
In Jamaica, the spiritual home of the Rum Punch, they like their rum overproof and many prefer this cocktail served over crushed ice to further dilute...
This was such a miss for me. I couldn't taste a single ingredient that wasn't the one ounce of sugar syrup. I didn't even get the burn from the whopping 1.5 Oz of overproof Wray & nephew. First time in a while I've just poured a drink out, I can get hungover with Waaaay better drinks than this.
The original recipe calls for aromatic bitters, but this deliciously sherry-infused Rum Old Fashioned is better with the zesty freshness of orange bitters...
A fascinating and intense drink. It is definitely more than a sum of its parts. It starts with cocoa and coffee notes which leads to some rum funkiness and then on to orange flavors. It mellows nicely over time with some dilution from the ice. I think someone would be hard pressed to guess the ingredients. I made with Smith and Cross rum.
With 60ml of 45% alc./vol. whiskey (depending on your bourbon) and 15ml of 40% alc./vol. liqueur, this is a punchy cocktail. Some may want to drop the...
Think I need to use a subtler bourbon because although I can just barely get the benedictine, everything mostly gets washed out by the bourbon. Which is unfortunate because I love chocolate bitters.
Rich apricot and apple with a backbone of botanical gin. Balanced rather than dry or sweet.
This cocktail looks better when stirred, but Harry Craddock's...
This is an excellent and refreshing summertime cocktail. As one who prefers drier cocktail options, I have leaned into making this now with dry apricot eau-de-vie instead of an apricot liqueur. While Harry Craddock didn't really specify whether he meant eau-de-vie or liqueur when he gave his recipe for this cocktail, I tend to believe that "apricot brandy" at this time would have meant eau-de-vie. Nevertheless, both versions are great!
This deep lurid reddy-brown cocktail won't be to everybody's taste but that's only to be expected with one-and-a-half shots of bitters. However, if you...
This deep lurid reddy-brown cocktail won't be to everybody's taste but that's only to be expected with one-and-a-half shots of bitters. However, if you...
I really liked the drink. I tried it both with 1.5 oz of angostura and 1 oz of angostura. I found 1 oz worked better for me; 1.5 oz prevented me from tasting the other ingredients.
What can I say after Calvin Grant's description.
I used a less smoky mezcal and found this was just perfect.
One of those drinks you got a bottle of Old Tom Gin for.
Had to make my own version of this using Pear Liqueur and 1/12 Ancho Reyes Liqueur.
Swapped the Celery for Bobs Coriander bitters.
Definitely on a return a very drinkable Gin Sour.
Benefited from just the dash of absinthe - hardly worth the extra glass for the discard but I NEVER throw out absinthe.