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The world's best Amaretto Sour, the Arsenic and Old Lace, poisoners, quackery, public dissection, taxidermy, Nigella's nutmeg euphoria and the genetics of psychopathy...



Amaretto Sour by Jeffrey Morgenthaler

1 1/2 oz Amaretto*
3/4 oz Cask-Proof Bourbon
1 oz Lemon Juice
1 tsp 2:1 Simple Syrup
1/2 oz Egg White

Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake without ice or (even better) use an immersion blender to combine and froth. Add ice and shake. Strain over fresh ice into a large rocks glass, garnish with a twist of lemon and maraschino cherries.
*Use Frangelico instead of Amaretto for a Frangelico Sour



Arsenic and Old Lace

2 oz Gin
3/4 oz Dry Vermouth
1/4 oz Creme de Violette
1 Barspoon of Absinthe

Add ingredients to a mixing glass and stir well with ice to chill and dilute. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with an expressed twist of lemon or orange peel.

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Juliet and Romeo

2 oz London Dry Gin
3/4 oz Lime Juice
3/4 oz Simple Syrup
3 slices Cucumber
1 Mint Sprig
A Dash of Rosewater
A Pinch of Salt

Muddle the cucumber and salt in a shaker tin, then add the Gin, Lime Juice, Simple Syrup and Rosewater and shake with ice. Double strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with a mint leaf and 3 drops of Angostura Bitters.



Pink Lady

1 1/2 oz London Dry gin
1/2 oz Apple Brandy
3/4 oz Lemon Juice
1/4 oz Grenadine
1/2 oz Egg White

Shake all ingredients and double strain into a chilled cocktail glass. No garnish.



Smouldering Rose

1 oz Mezcal
2 oz Rosé Vermouth
1/4 oz Velvet Falernum
A Dash of Rosewater

Stir all ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. No garnish.

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Porn Star Martini (original recipe)

1 1/2 oz Vanilla Vodka
2 oz Funkin Passion Fruit Puree
1/2 oz Passoa Passion Fruit Liqueur
2 Barspoons of Vanilla Sugar (Blend 1 Vanilla Pod with 500g Fine Sugar)

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a chilled coupe glass, garnish with half a fresh Passion Fruit and serve with a shot of Champagne or sparkling wine.


Blushing Porn Star

1 1/2 oz Vanilla Vodka
2 oz Passion Fruit Puree
1/2 oz Hibiscus Liqueur
2 Barspoons of Vanilla Sugar

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a chilled coupe glass, garnish with a Hibiscus flower.

Breakfast in America, lunch in Italy and dinner in South Korea. Three continent crossing cocktails in the company of Nellie Bly...



Seoul Train

1 1/2 oz Soju
3/4 oz Choya Plum Wine
Yuzu Soda

Add the Soju and Plum Wine to a highball glass, add ice to halfway and stir, add Yuzu soda and more ice, stir again to combine, garnish with Kiwi Pearls and Dragon Fruit.


Breakfast in America

1 oz Bourbon
1/4 oz Coffee Liqueur
1/4 oz Maple Syrup
1 oz Buttermilk
1 Whole Egg

Add all ingredients to a shaker and dry shake (without ice), add ice and shake again, strain into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with Candied Bacon.


Pomodoro Negroni

2 Cherry Tomatoes
1 oz Gin
3/4 oz Italicus
1/4 oz Suze
1 oz Dry Vermouth

Muddle the cherry tomatoes in a mixing glass, add the remaining ingredients and ice, stir to chill and dilute, double strain into a rocks glass and garnish with Cherry Tomatoes, Mozzarella Pearls and Basil Leaves.

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Penicillin

2 oz Scotch Whisky
3/4 oz Fresh Lemon Juice
3/4 oz Honey Ginger Syrup*
Float 1/4 oz peated Islay Whisky

Shake all ingredients but the Islay whisky with ice, strain into an ice filled rocks glass, float the Islay whisky on top, garnish with a piece of Candied Ginger


Repeat Prescription

2 oz Irish Whiskey
3/4 oz Fresh Lemon Juice
1 oz Ginger Liqueur
1 Dash of Orange Bitters
Float 1/4 oz Peated Islay Whisky

Shake all ingredients but the Islay whisky with ice, strain into an ice filled rocks glass, float the Islay whisky on top, garnish with a piece of Candied Ginger


* Honey Ginger Syrup
You can find lots of different recipes online but here's mine (also works with Agave Syrup instead of Honey if preferred):
250 ml Honey
250 ml Water
180g Unpeeled Fresh Ginger
A pinch of Salt
Blend Honey, Ginger and Water into a puree.
Add some cracked black or cayenne pepper** into a dry pain, heat until fragrant, add the pureed honey ginger mix and boil, simmering for 10 minutes. Put aside to cool for a further 10 minutes. Fine strain into a glass bottle, let stand until room temperature and then seal and refrigerate.

**Without getting into the chemistry, fresh ginger soon loses its spiciness once processed, but black or cayenne pepper doesn't, so the inclusion of a little black/cayenne pepper in the syrup compensates for this.

Bloody Marys, Bloody Beasts, Uncle Monty, gay repression and 'Withnail and I'...
Uncle Monty


2 oz Oloroso Sherry
2-3 oz Carrot Juice
Squeeze of Lemon Juice
Dash of Simple Syrup or Curacao
Pinch of Celery Salt
Twist of Black Pepper
Dash of Pepper Sauce
Dash of Worcestershire Sauce

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into an ice filled Collins glass, garnish with celery stick, olives, cherry tomatoes, gherkins, pickled onions, chicken pops and/or whatever tickles your fancy!

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Cin Cyn

1 oz Gin
1 oz Cynar
1 oz Sweet Vermouth

Build in ice filled rocks glass, garnish with a Lemon Twist.


Scorched Earth

1 1/2 oz Cognac
1/2 oz Cynar
1/2 oz Sweet Vermouth

Optional: 1 Dash of Grapefruit Bitters
Add ingredients to a mixing glass, add ice and stir to chill and dilute, strain into a chilled cocktail glass, garnish with a flamed Lemon Zest.

Devilish cocktails, Faustian pacts and a plethora of pointless demons...



The Devil Rides Out

1 oz White Rum
1 oz Dry Vermouth
1/2 oz Grand Marnier
1/4 oz Angostura Bitters
1/4 oz Fernet Branca
1 Dash Grapefruit Bitters

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a chilled cocktail glass, garnish with chilli 'fingers'

El Diablo

1 1/2 oz Tequila or Mezcal
1/2 Creme de Cassis
3/4 Fresh Lime Juice
Top with Ginger Beer

Build in glass adding the Tequila, Cassis and Lime juice first, adding ice and then topping with Ginger Beer and stirring to combine. Garnish with a Lime wedge.

Devil's Margarita

1 1/2 oz Tequila or Mezcal
1 oz Fresh Lime Juice
3/4 oz Simple Syrup
1/2 oz Red Wine Float

Shake Tequila, Lime juice and Simple Syrup with ice. Strain into chilled glass, carefully float the red wine on top.

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The Heart of Gold

1 oz Bourbon
1/2 oz Gin
1/2 oz Apple Liqueur (pref Briottet Manzana Verde)
1/4 oz Maraschino Liqueur
1/4 oz Fresh Lemon Juice
1 oz Fresh Apple Juice
Opt: 1 Barspoon Rich Simple Syrup if you'd like it sweeter


Shake all ingredients with ice, double strain into a chilled cocktail glass, no garnish.

Acid Mothers Rhubarb and other questionable inventions...


Acid Mothers Rhubarb

2 oz Sake
1/2 oz Gordon's Pink Gin
1/2 oz Archer's Peach Schnapps
2 dashes Fee Brothers Rhubarb Bitters
3 teaspoons Lactic Simple Syrup*

Shake ingredients with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass.
* Lactic Simple Syrup: Make up a Simple Syrup using 5% Lactic Acid Solution (5g Lactic Acid to 100g water)

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Margarita (IBA specs)

50 ml Tequila (100% agave)
20 ml Triple Sec
15 ml Fresh Lime Juice


Shake ingredients with ice, serve straight up or on the rocks in a glass with a salted rim


Margarita (Paul's Recipe)

2 oz Reposado Tequila (100% agave)
1 oz Fresh Lime Juice
3/4 oz Triple Sec
1 Teaspoon Agave Syrup
Optional: 1 Dash of Grapefruit Bitters, 1 Dash of Celery Bitters


Shake ingredients with ice, serve straight up or on the rocks in a glass with a salted rim

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Batida

2 oz Cachaça
1 oz Fruit Juice and/or Coconut milk
1/4 oz Simple Syrup or Sweetened Condensed Milk
Optional: 1/4 oz fresh Lime Juice

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Paper Plane

3/4 oz Bourbon
3/4 oz Amaro Nonino
3/4 oz Aperol
3/4 oz Lemon Juice

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a chilled coupe.


High Flyer

1 oz Spirit
1/2 oz Lemon or Lime Juice
1/2 oz Aperol or other bitter red
bitter apéritif
1/2 oz Amaro Montenegro, Suze or similar


Optional: 1 Barspoon Simple Syrup


Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a chilled coupe

Moogs, Droogs, Wendy Carlos, coronaphillia and magical nutsacks...


Sloe Gin Switch

1 oz Sloe Gin
1 oz Dry Gin
1/4 oz Cocchi Americano
1 dash Orange Bitters
2 oz Moscato Sparkling Rose


Stir the Gins, Cocchi and Bitters with ice, strain into a chilled cocktail glass, top with 2 oz Moscato Sparkling Rose, Garnish with Black Grapes


The Moloko Plus by Morgan Schick at NoMad, San Fransisco

2 oz Rum (preferably Eldorado 12 year)
1/2 oz Crema de Mezcal (make your own Mezcal liqueur with a ratio of 80% Mezcal: 20% Agave Nectar)
1/2 oz Bénédictine
3 oz Cardamom-Infused Milk*
1 Barspoon Simple Syrup (Paul suggests 1/4 - 1/2 oz)
2 dashes Orange Bitters
2 oz Sparkling Wine


Add all ingredients except sparkling wine to a cocktail shaker, shake with ice, strain into an ice filled highball glass, top with the Sparkling Wine.

* infuse 1 pint of milk with 1/4 Cup Cracked Cardamom pods - combine ingredients and warm on stove (without bringing to the boil) for 30 mins.


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Yukiguni

30 ml Vodka
20 ml Cointreau
10 ml Fresh Lime Juice

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a cocktail glass rimmed with fine sugar and drop a Green Minted Maraschino Cherry to rest in the bottom of the glass.


Urban Break Lemonade by Keiko Tezuka

40 ml Woodford Reserve Bourbon
60 ml Rose Tea (at room temperature)
10 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
10 ml Agave Syrup
10 drops Cherry Bitters

Combine Rose Tea, Lemon Juice, Agave Syrup and Cherry Bitters in a rocks glass, add ice and stir to chill and dilute. Add bourbon as a float for presentation, garnish with a Dehydrated Lemon Slice and a Dried Rose Bud. Stir lightly to combine before drinking.

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Bitter Mac

1 3/4 oz Scotch Whisky
3/4 oz Becherovka
1/4 oz Maple Syrup
1 dash Angostura Bitters
1 dash Orange Bitters

Briefly stir ingredients with ice in a mixing glass to chill and dilute, then strain into a Cinnamon Smoked Double Old Fashioned Glass, over a large piece of ice, and garnish with an Expressed Twist of Lemon and a piece of Candied Ginger.

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20th Century

1 1/2 oz Gin
3/4 oz Creme de Cacao
3/4 oz Lillet Blanc
3/4 oz Lemon Juice

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a chilled cocktail glass, garnish with a Lemon Twist (optional)


21st Century

2 oz Blanco Tequila
3/4 oz Creme de Cacao
3/4 oz Lemon Juice

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a chilled cocktail glass, no garnish


Special Thanks to Paul H!

The Big Lebowski, White Russians, Walterism and Dudeism...

For all of the recipes below, build the drink in a rocks glass over ice....

White Russian

1 1/4 oz Vodka
1/2 oz Kahlua
3/4 oz Cream/Milk/Half and Half


The Walter

1 1/4 oz Vodka
1/2 oz Kahlua
3/4 oz Chocolate Milk
1 barspoon Chocolate Sauce


The Donny

1 1/4 oz Amaretto
1/2 oz Kahlua
3/4 oz Cream/Milk/Half and Half


The Da Fino

1 1/4 oz Cherry Vodka
1/2 oz Kahlua
3/4 oz Cream/Milk/Half and Half


The Creedence

1 1/4 oz Bourbon
1/2 oz Kahlua
3/4 oz Cream/Milk/Half and Half
1 Barspoon Caramel Sauce

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Takashi Murakami

1 1/2 oz Skittle Infused Sake*
1 oz Ginger Liqueur
3/4 oz Fresh Lime Juice

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a chilled cocktail glass, garnish with a gummy octopus.
*Add 30 Skittles to 8 oz of Sake, let sit, stirring occasionally until the Skittles have been dissolved, then filter through a coffee filter to clarify (don't skip this part or your infusion will have a film of candy wax on top).

Gorrillas in the Mist

3/4 oz Malibu Coconut Rum
3/4 oz Bailey's Irish Cream
3/4 oz Kahlua
3/4 oz Banana Liqueur
At least 1 1/2 oz Vanilla Ice Cream
Half a banana

Place all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth, pour into a large glass and top with whipped cream and chocolate sauce.

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The Pie's the Limit

3/4 oz Brown Butter Fat Washed Rum
1 1/4 oz Spice Infused Amontillado Sherry
1/2 oz PX Sherry
1 Barspoon of Grand Marnier
4 drops of Spiced Apple Bitters
2 Drops of Beef Stock Extract
Sweetened and Whipped Vanilla Double Cream
Grated Nutmeg

Add all ingredients except the cream and nutmeg to a mixing glass, stir with ice to chill and dilute, strain into a cocktail glass, float a layer of cream on top, garnish with grated nutmeg and a sugared puff pastry tuille.

Brown Butter Fat Washed Rum - Melt 125g unsalted butter until it browns, add to 350ml Dark Rum in a wide mouthed container, seal and leave to infuse at room temperature for 12 hours, then put in freezer. When the butter has solidified, strain off the rum through a coffee filter or cheesecloth.

Spice Infused Amontillado Sherry - Add 1 bag of Mulling Spices to 6 oz of Amontillado Sherry at room temperature for 20 mins or to taste.

Beef Stock Extract - Add one cube of Beef Stock to 1 oz Vodka, let infuse for 20 minutes, strain off solids.

The Pie's the Limit (simple version)

2 oz Spice Infused Amontillado Sherry
1 oz PX Sherry
1 Barspoon Grand Marnier
Double Cream
Grated Nutmeg

Add sherries and Grand Marnier to a mixing glass, stir with ice to chill and dilute, strain into a cocktail glass, float a layer of cream on top, garnish with grated nutmeg and a sugared puff pastry tuille.

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Mr. Stay Puft Manhattan

1 1/2 oz Bourbon
1/2 oz Averna Amaro
1/2 oz Galliano or Licor 43
1/2 oz Maraschino Liqueur

Stir all ingredients with ice, strain into a chilled cocktail glass, garnish with toasted marshmallows.

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Remember Maine

2 oz Rhum Agricole (VSOP)
1 1/2 oz Fresh Couldy Apple Juice
1/4 oz Allspice Dram
2 dashes Angostura bitters

Stir all ingredients with ice, strain into a rocks glass over single large ice cube.


They're All Going To Laugh At You

1/2 part Vodka
1/2 part Cherry Juice

Combine ingredients, chill in freezer until ready to serve, pour into shot glasses when ready.


Mrs. Todd's Short Cut

1 1/4 oz Scotch Whisky
1/2 oz Fresh Lemon Juice
1/2 oz Honey Syrup (1:1)
1/4 oz Benedictine
1 Barspoon Blue Curacao
6-8 Mint leaves

Shake all ingredients with ice, double strain into a chilled cocktail glass, garnish with mint and/or something from another dimension.

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Singapore Sling (Raffles Recipe - as they serve it now)

1 1/2 oz Gin
1/2 oz Fresh Lime Juice
1/2 oz Cherry Heering
1/4 oz Benedictine
1/4 oz Cointreau
1 1/2 oz Fresh Pineapple Juice (we prefer just 1 oz)
A Dash of Grenadine
1 Dash of Angostura Bitters

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a tall ice filled glass, garnish with a wedge of pineapple and a Maraschino cherry.

Singapore Sling (Smugglers Cove Recipe - closer to original 'Straits Sling' recipe)

1 1/2 oz Gin
3/4 oz Fresh lemon Juice
1/2 oz Cherry Heering
1/4 oz Benedictine
1/4 oz Demarara Syrup
1 Dash of Angostura Bitters
1 Dash of Orange Bitters
2 oz Soda Water

Shake all ingredients other than the soda water with ice, strain into a tall ice filled glass, top with soda water, stir to combine, garnish with a twist of lemon and a Maraschino cherry.

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Ode to the Rainbow

2 oz Bourbon
1/2 oz Fresh Orange Juice
1/2 oz Fresh Lime Juice
1 Barspoon Simple Syrup
1/2 oz Raspberry Syrup

Whip shake the bourbon, orange juice, lime juice and simple syrup, pour into a chilled double old fashioned glass, top with crushed ice, drizzle the raspberry syrup on top and garnish with a 'rainbow' of concentric half-slices of orange, lemon and lime.

Creme de Coquelicot, The Wizard of Oz, Labyrinth, Disney sidekicks, The Monkees and Head...

Poppy Love

1 oz Creme de Coquelicot
1 oz Dry Vermouth
1 oz Fino Sherry

Stir all ingredients with ice to chill and dilute, strain into a chilled cocktail glass, express lemon oil over top of drink and discard zest.

Detective fiction, Charlie Chan, Duke Kahanamoku and rubber tramps...

Halekulani

1 1/2 oz Bourbon
1/2 oz Fresh Lemon Juice
1/2 oz Fresh Orange Juice
1/2 oz Fresh Pineapple Juice
1/4 oz Rich Demerara Syrup
1 Barspoon of Grenadine
1 Dash of Angostura Bitters

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain over pebble ice into a vessel of your choosing, garnish prettily.

Saint Hubertus, Hermann Göring, gay Nazis and stolen art...

The Jägerita

2 oz Jägermeister
1 oz Cointreau
1 oz fresh lime juice
1/4 oz simple syrup

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

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Turquoise Blue

1½oz White Rum
½oz Blue Curaçao
½oz Fresh Lemon Juice
1oz Fresh Pineapple Juice

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a chilled cocktail glass or serve over ice in a rocks or highball glass