Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails

Drinks From the Past for the Future

Wild Irish Rose

My first cocktail by Dead Rabbit, the Wild Irish Rose:

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  • 0.75 ounce Pomegranate Syrup
  • 1.00 ounce Connemara Peated Single Malt Irish Whiskey
  • 1.00 ounce Laird’s Applejack Bonded Proof
  • 1.00 ounce Pama Pomegranate Liqueur
  • 0.75 ounce fresh lemon juice
  • 3 dashes Bittermens Burlesque Bitters
  • 3 dashes Pernod Absinthe
  • 1 large egg white

Pre-chill a punch glass. Add all the ingredients to a shaker. Fill with ice and shake. Strain into the punch glass.

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Leatherneck Cocktail

Did you say you wanted a blue drink? Try the Leatherneck Cocktail:

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  • 2.00 ounces blended whiskey (Crown Royal recommended)
  • 0.75 ounce blue curaçao
  • 0.50 ounce fresh lime juice

Shake in an iced cocktail shaker, and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a lime wheel.

Okay, I don’t like blue curaçao. Curaçao is supposed to be a colorless spirit, but it is often dyed blue to add a weird color to drinks. Seriously, there is no blue food so there should be no blue drinks.

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