Category: Recipes
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The Whiskey Cobbler: What Is It?
Unless you’re a cocktail aficionado with a penchant for history, chances are you’ve never heard of the cobbler. Cobblers were among the most popular mixed drink categories in the nineteenth century. Cobblers were made with numerous wines and spirits with the Sherry Cobbler being amongst the oldest recipes. The Sherry Cobbler appears in the 1847… Read more
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Bawon’s Benediction
The ingredients for this cocktail are inspired by the lore of Baron Samedi, loa of the dead in Haitian Vodou. Read more
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Kapuhona: Turning Sex on the Beach into a Craft Cocktail
Kapuhona: Turning Sex on the Beach into a Craft Cocktail Sex on the Beach is one of those cocktails that everybody knows. Yet, it’s hard to imagine a craft bartender or discerning drinker treating it as a serious culinary cocktail. Lore has it that a Florida bartender invented the drink to try to sell peach… Read more
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Spook
To be clear, Spook is an old-fashioned and it’s quite traditional (well because we’re using simple syrup we might as well just call it a brandy cocktail). While typically associated with bourbon or rye, brandy has been used in old-fashioneds for as long as old-fashioneds have been made. This particular crafting uses clear Copper &… Read more
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Inescapable Fate
Cocktail writers such as Jennifer Fiedler and Camper English have defined a new category of the tiki genra: Goth Tiki. It’s a trend illustrated with themes such as voodoo, zombies, and skulls. But to be honest, the seed was planted from the very beginning with Donn Beach’s original Zombie cocktail. The genre is as much… Read more
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The Marauder
The Marauder is a tiki take on the old-fashioned. The drink is seasoned with Jerry Thomas Decanter Bitters, falernum, and orange curaçao. The recipe for decanter bitters comes from Jerry Thomas’ book “The Bar-tenders Guide,” published in 1862. Decanter bitters have all-spice, cinnamon, and clove. All of which are spices that conjure tropical islands. Falernum… Read more
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The Momsen
The Momsen The Momsen is an elegant and refined elaboration of the Lemon Drop. Subtle floral hints combine with mint and honey to conjure a sunny summer field. The Momsen is a rift on the Lemon Drop. It’s also an example of how recipes evolve. Since its conception two years ago, it has gone through… Read more
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The Colonel
The Colonel is a craft take on the dirty old-fashioned. It’s common to see the old-fashioned garnished with a cherry and orange wedge but fine restaurants and craft bars generally stick to the classic form, which is garnished with only a lemon peel. Any fruit in the drink makes an old-fashioned “dirty,” which is an… Read more
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Sweet Mash Rye Old-Fashioned
This old-fashioned follows the late nineteenth century rubric for the cocktail. It’s got only a bar-spoon of sugar, two dashes of Peychaud’s Bitters and one bar spoon of Grand Marnier (about 1.5 dashes). Believe it or not, it was once common to use a dash or two of orange curaçao in an old-fashioned. Nowadays, orange bitters… Read more