In my research into vintage cocktails you sometimes come across an ingredient that simply can’t be purchased anymore. In those cases you either search for a substitute or make one. As part of a recipe I need something called “orange…
The Jack Rose Cocktail
When you have a bar in your living room, you end up collecting bottles of spirits. Some are gifts, some are random purchases and some end up there when people move and don’t want to ship the bottles, etc. Thus…
The Straits Sling
Andrea works in a larger city than where we live and they have an ABC store that stocks a greater variety of things. Last night she brought home a bottle of Bénédictine (which I would have to order locally) and…
Park Avenue Cocktail
In my previous post I was lamenting the fact that I had returned from a trip and while I wanted to try a new cocktail, I was out of fresh fruit which limited my choices. The next morning I was…
Lucien Gaudin Cocktail
I had just come back from a trip to Germany, and even though my body was supposed to be at four in the morning, I found myself a little too wired to sleep. I figured a nice cocktail would be…
The Boulevardier
Of the 87 or so recipes in the book, I’ve seen a handful of them in the wild. This is one of them. According to the text, the cocktail was the signature drink of Erskine Gwynne who was an “expatriate…
The Avenue
I almost wanted to call this drink “The Amazon” since I had to order most of the ingredients on-line. 1 ounce bourbon 1 ounce Calvados 1 ounce passion fruit juice or nectar 1 dash real pomegranate grenadine 1 dash orange…
Life is Beautiful
It may seem funny that my second cocktail post doesn’t come from the book that inspired the website, but my love of cocktails was inspired by a number of people as well, including my friends Demetri and Cat in Chicago.…