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Several of my favorite cocktails, transcribed as I perfect them or discover them.

San Salvador

  • 1.5oz dark rum
  • 1oz triple sec
  • 0.5oz lime juice
  • 1.5oz orange juice

Daiquiri - ***

  • 2oz Rum
  • 1/2 or 1oz Lime juice (usually about one lime's worth of juice)
  • 1 tsp. simple syrup, add more to taste.

Shake/strain

Coffee Cocktail - ***

  • 0.5oz coffee
  • do. Cointreau
  • do. Brandy

Whiskey Buck

  • 2oz whiskey
  • Juice and shell of half a lemon
  • 4-6oz ginger ale (I use Reed's Spicy Ginger Brew (Red Label))

Squeeze lemon juice into a collins glass, then drop the juiced shell of lemon into the drink. Add ice, then pour whiskey over ice. Top with ginger ale, and stir.

Scorpion - ***

  • juice of half a lime
  • 1.5oz orange juice
  • 0.75oz brandy
  • 0.75oz light rum
  • 0.75oz dark rum
  • 1/4oz triple sec
  • lime wedge for garnish

White Lion - ***

  • 1.5oz ground white sugar
  • 1/2 lime
  • 4oz Santa Cruz rum
  • 1/8oz curaçao
  • 1/8oz raspberry syrup

Columbia - ****

  • 1.5oz light rum
  • 0.75oz lemon juice
  • 0.25oz raspberry syrup

Shake and strain. Garnish with lime squeeze

Captain's Blood

  • 1.5oz dark rum
  • 0.5oz lime juice
  • 2 dashes angostura bitters

Brooklynite

  • 2oz dark rum
  • 1oz lime juice
  • 1 teaspoon of honey
  • 1 dash angostura bitters

Shake and strain. Garnish with lime squeeze.

Blue Boy

  • 2oz dark rum
  • 0.75oz sweet vermouth
  • 0.5oz orange juice
  • 1 dash angostura bitters

Shake and strain.

Barbaresque Cocktail - ***

  • 1.5oz light rum
  • 0.75oz lemon juice
  • 0.5oz cointreau

Shake and strain.

Highball

  • 2oz rum of choice
  • Soda water

Stir with ice. Top with soda water. Garnish with lemon twist.

Sidecar

  • 1.5oz Cognac
  • 0.75oz Cointreau
  • 0.75oz lemon juice

Shake and strain.

'Sidecar Thirds' - ****

  • 1oz Rye
  • 1oz Cointreau
  • 1oz Lemon juice

Shake and strain.

Royal Bermuda Yacht Club Cocktail - ***

  • 2oz dark/gold rum
  • 0.75oz lime juice
  • 0.25oz cointreau
  • 0.25oz falernum

Bermuda Rum Swizzle

  • 4oz Black Seal Rum
  • 4oz Barbados Rum
  • Juice of 2 lemons
  • 5oz pineapple juice
  • 5oz orange juice
  • 2oz Bermuda falernum
  • 6 dashes Angostura Bitters

Suffering Bastard

  • 1oz bourbon
  • 1oz gin
  • 4oz chilled ginger ale
  • 1 lime
  • 1 dash Angostura bitters

Oriental - ***

  • 2oz rye or bourbon
  • 0.5oz cointreau
  • 1oz Italian vermouth
  • 1/2 lime

Shake and strain.

Blood Feud

  • 1oz Jamaican Rum
  • 1oz Cointreau
  • 1oz Blood Orange
  • 1 Lime

Escape from Alcatraz

  • 1 teaspoon ginger, fresh, grated
  • 3 slices Orange
  • 0.5oz lemon juice, fresh squeezed
  • 1oz Cointreau
  • 2oz rye whiskey, Templeton

Muddle: lemon juice, 3 orange slices, ginger. Add cointreau and whiskey, shake/strain into ice filled glass, garnish with orange slice.

Golden Gate Swizzle

  • 1.5oz Fernet Branca
  • 1oz Lemon juice
  • 1oz Orgeat
  • 1⁄4oz Falernum, Velvet Falernum
  • 1⁄4oz Orange bitters, Angostura orange
  • 4ds Bitters, Angostura
  • 1spg Mint (large, as garnish)
  • 1sli Orange (as garnish)

Build in Collins glass filled with crushed ice, swizzle until frost forms, garnish.

Orange Something - ****

  • 2oz of Partida Reposado Tequila (or Espolon)
  • 0.75oz lime juice
  • 0.75oz Velvet falernum

A few dashes of angostura orange bitters, shake and strain, Orange Peel twisted over the drink for the oils, then use to garnish

Manhattan

  • 2oz Whiskey
  • 0.75oz Sweet Vermouth
  • Dash of Angostura Bitters

Stir over ice, strain, garnish with cherry.

Don the Beachcomber’s Mai Tai Swizzle, 1933

  • 2oz water (yes, water)
  • 1.5oz gold rum
  • 1.5oz lime juice
  • 1oz dark rum
  • 1oz grapefruit juice
  • 1oz simple syrup
  • 0.5oz Cointreau or triple sec
  • 0.25oz falernum
  • 2 dashes Angostura bitters
  • 1 dash Pernod or pastis

Shake on ice and strain into a highball glass filled with crushed ice. Garnish with fruits and serve with straw.

Trader Vic’s original recipe, 1944

  • 2oz 17-year J. Wray Nephew Jamaican rum
  • 1oz lime juice
  • 0.5oz French Garnier orgeat
  • 0.5oz Holland DeKuyper orange curacao
  • 0.25oz rock candy syrup

Shake and strain into an old-fashioned glass filled with crushed ice, garnish with a sprig of fresh mint.

Smuggler’s Cove Mai Tai

  • 2oz premium aged rum (Appleton Estate 12-year or El Dorado 12-year)
  • 0.75oz fresh lime juice
  • 0.5oz orange curacao
  • 0.25oz rock candy syrup (2 parts rock candy, 1 part water)
  • 0.25oz orgeat almond syrup

Shake vigorously on crushed ice, pour unstrained into double old-fashioned glass, garnish with a squeeze of lime juice and fresh mint sprig.

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