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I guess I'm posting my cocktails now
Tia Mia 🍸 as a punch
400ml Jamaican rum (split of Coruba and Denizen)
400ml mezcal
300ml lime juice
200ml orgeat
100ml orange liqueur
6 ds Driftwood bitters
30 drops 1:4 saline
300ml water

Chilling now, should be served over ice
December 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Tried this again today and flipping the Zucca and apricot is the way to go
Tonight's 🍸
2 oz Rittenhouse rye
1 oz E&J VSOP brandy
¾ oz Rothman & Winter apricot liqueur
½ oz Zucca
lemon twist

Stir and strain onto a rock.
December 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Tonight's 🍸
2 oz Rittenhouse rye
1 oz E&J VSOP brandy
¾ oz Rothman & Winter apricot liqueur
½ oz Zucca
lemon twist

Stir and strain onto a rock.
December 8, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Seems about right for me
anisota.net/harvest
December 3, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Borrowed Tune 🍸
recipe by Ryan Gannon, via the Cure book
2 oz rye (1½ oz bourbon originally)
½ oz Branca Menta
¼ oz Averna
1 bsp simple syrup (demerara originally)
2 ds orange bitters
grapefruit twist
November 27, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Reposted by Jesse Casey
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Fallback 🍸
Hate the clock change, but at least it's an excuse to make this Sasha Petraske cocktail (under Toby's supervision, of course)

1 oz apple brandy
1 oz rye
½ oz sweet vermouth
½ oz Nonino
2 ds Peychaud's
orange twist
November 4, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Missing his sister Lemon the hound?
November 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Watchin' pork chops and gravy
November 2, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Watchin' baseball
November 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Go birds, I guess
October 30, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Cinnamon Up-to-date 🍸
An experiment swapping some cinnamon in for the orange liqueur. Not bad!
2 oz rye
2 oz amontillado sherry
2 bsp 1:1 cinnamon syrup
2 ds Angostura
orange twist
October 29, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Baltimore Orioles sign some pitchers
Completely fix baseball with five words.
October 26, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Last night we spent the evening like I spent many Fridays in the mid-90s, watching Homicide: Life on the Street. We got a pretty good turn out (10 people!), and I made at least one of each drink on the impromptu cocktail 🍸menu I threw together. All are riffs or lifts of other cocktail recipes.
October 26, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Pedro's Martinez 🍸
feeling nostalgic for living near Clover Club, so I tracked down a something we loved ordering there ~10 years ago. (Recipe by Bryan Schneider, I think)

1½ oz aged rum (should be Dominican)
¾ oz sweet vermouth
¼ oz PX sherry
1 ds Angostura bitters
1 ds mole bitters
lime twist
October 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Manhattanesque 🍸
1½ oz rye
1½ oz sweet vermouth
1 oz apple brandy
2 ds Bitter Truth aromatic bitters (not pictured)
3 brandied cherries
lemon twist
October 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Armagnac Stinger 🍸
2 oz armagnac
½ oz Giffard Menthe-Pastille
½ oz Branca Menta
October 17, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Tonight's 🍸
It feels like fall, so we were going to have a couple of Trans-Ams (by Dave Nurmi), but we're out of Benedictine. So I improvised.

1½ oz rye
1½ oz apple brandy
½ oz Becherovka
1 bsp 1:1 demerara syrup (added after tasting)
2 ds Angostura
orange twist
October 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
As I Lay Dying 🍸
recipe by @fredericyarm.bsky.social
1½ oz cognac
¾ oz apple brandy
¾ oz Braulio
½ oz apricot liqueur
2 ds Peychaud's bitters
October 11, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Maybe should have pitched to Ohtani instead of intentionally walking him before????
October 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Another Boulevardier 🍸 for Red October. It worked last night. Let's go Phillies.

2 oz rye (split of Overholt Bonded and Michter's)
1 oz Campari
1 oz sweet vermouth
lemon and orange twist
October 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Made a red drink (Boulevardier) to try to extend Red October. Maybe it's working? These are the guys I remember. Go Phillies.
October 9, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Let's go Phillies 👏 👏 👏👏👏
October 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Kinda weird one tonight 🍸
2 oz rye
1 oz sweet vermouth
½ oz Zucca
½ oz apricot liqueur
orange twist
September 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Various projects today using up older produce in the kitchen 🍸
1) 900ml watermelon juice, divided + 300ml peach puree, vacuum sealed for freezing
2) lactofermentation experiments with sugarplums and figs
3) 2 liters of tasty but unappetizing green juice, using apple, kale, ginger, lemon, banana
September 22, 2025 at 12:14 AM