Cocktail Recipes
These are not my own recipes, just ones I like. I’ll add to this list as I have the energy to do so…
Please note all the recipes involving gin say to STIR, not shake. The only people who shake gin are James Bond and terrible bartenders.
Negroni:
1.5oz gin
0.75oz sweet vermouth
0.75oz Campari
2 dash orange bitters
stir over ice, pour into a chilled glass (a champagne saucer is a nice choice if you have one). Garnish with lemon zest
Last Words:
0.75oz gin
0.75oz green chartreuse
0.75oz maraschino liqueur
0.75oz fresh lime juice
Stir with ice
Sazerac:
1.5-2oz rye whiskey
2 dash peychauds bitters
1 sugar cube
absinthe
essence of lemon zest
Muddle bitters & sugar, add whiskey, shake with ice.
Rinse rocks glass with absinthe, pour in your mix, add lemon essence. No garnish.
Paloma:
2oz tequila
3oz grapefruit juice
0.5oz lime juice
serve over rocks.
WARNING! If you order one at a bar, they will almost certainly sub the grapefruit juice for a soda like Fresca
Aviation:
2oz gin
0.5oz lemon juice
0.25oz maraschino liqueur
1 dash creme de violette
lemon zest for garnish
Stir with ice. Serve over rocks
Caipirinha:
2oz cachaca
1 lime – sliced
1 sugar cube
muddle sugar/lime. Add ice & cachaca, stir.
Biter:
4.5oz gin
2.25oz sweet lemon juice
2.25oz green chartreuse
dash absinthe
Stir w/ ice
Fratelli:
2oz Rittenhouse 100 rye
0.5oz Carpano Antica
0.5oz Yellow Chartreuse
0.25oz Fernet Branca
Stir w/ ice, strain. Garnish with lemon peel twist
Whiskey Fix:
2 sugar cubes
2 dash lime juice
0.5oz pineapple syrup
4oz whiskey
Stir in glass with shaved ice, garnish with fruit of your pleasing.
Deadly Sin:
- 2oz Bourbon
- 1/3oz Sweet Vermouth
- 1/4oz Maraschino Liqueur
- 1 dash Orange Bitters
Stir w/ ice, strain in chilled glass, garnish w/ orange twist
Meiner:
- 2oz Orange Juice
- 1oz Gin
- 3/4oz Campari
Serve over ice with orange slice in the glass. I think it may need less Campari…
Shaking anything with a considerable amount of vermouth in it is a fatty disguise trick.
Stop reading about booze in Men’s Health Magazine. FOLLOW MY RULES AND YOU WILL BE FOREVER PROUD!
I hear that the darker the ingredients (vermouth, whiskey, etc) the more vigorous you need to be. IE – shake that shit. I also cannot find any real proof that shaking gin does anything that a real human being can detect.
Who gives a damn, just get everything mixed and don’t add any fucking Sprite.
For this homosexual, the “Last Words” Cocktail and “Final Word Cocktail” should be indeed shaken. The Final Ward substitutes Rye instead of the Gin and a lemon instead of the Lime.
Shake the Aviation Mf’er as well.
STIR the sazerac!
Rule seems to be if it has juice….shake the fucking beast. If the drink is mostly booze mixed with vermouth or a liquer/cordial….stir the maniac.
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