Bitters / Cognac / Brandy / Daily Mix / Gin / Grenadine / Orange Juice
The GOLDEN DAWN is a fruity and tart, yet complex “martini.” It’s not a traditional martini with vermouth. But the bitters mixed with gin, apricot brandy and applejack give it a power-punch equivalent to a martini, even with added orange...
The BLUE TRAIN is a tasty and exotic-looking gin cocktail served martini-style. Its blue color is from the small amount of blue curacao added to a combination of gin, orange liqueur and lemon juice. It’s a quick and simple mix...
The MATCHA GIN cocktail is a wonderfully refreshing cocktail for those who enjoy pineapple-flavored cocktails. Japanese matcha powder adds a richness to the mix giving it an unusual green color (no, it’s not pea soup), but is a welcome addition...
The SEABOARD is a smooth lemon-flavored cocktail mixing whiskey with gin. Like the Woodstock, it combines lemon juice with gin. And like the Long Island Iced Tea, the multiple liquor combination has no dominant liquor flavoring. It all works together....
Bitters / Daily Mix / Gin / Maraschino / Throwback Thursday
The CASINO is a classy gin-based cocktail adding touches of Maraschino liqueur, lemon juice and orange bitters. It’s one of the few gin cocktails that recommends a sweeter gin like Old Tom versus a London dry gin. Add ingredients to...
Cointreau (orange liqueur) / Daily Mix / Gin / Pernod / Rum
The WHITE LILLY is an icy-looking mix and an amazing martini-like cocktail. It’s clean and strong like the Vesper, but fuller flavored and mildly sweeter. The equal parts gin, light rum and Cointreau make it an easy cocktail to remember....
If you’ve got champagne or Prosecco and gin handy, you can make the classic FRENCH 75 as a special New Year’s treat. It has herbal notes from the gin, and tartness from the lemon juice which is offset by sweetness...
Daily Mix / Gin / Martini Monday / Scotch
The SMOKY MARTINI is the classic embellishment of a Gin Martini using a small amount of Scotch in the place of vermouth. In spare quantities, the Scotch whisky’s smoky notes blend beautifully with the gin’s botanicals. It’s an easy, no...
The CORPSE REVIVER NO.2 is a pre-prohibition cocktail that features gin, Lillet Blanc, Cointreau, lemon juice and a glass that has been rinsed in Absinthe. It’s a delicious tart and refreshing “pick-me-up” that is more potent than it tastes. Although...
If you start with a rum & coke, just add tequila, vodka, gin, orange liqueur and lemon juice and you’ve got your LONG ISLAND ICED TEA. Though it has the sound of an end-of-evening frat-party creation, its invention is actually...
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