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John Tremain
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Trapped in a world he never made. I’m here for the beverages. Working my way through the Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails, entry by random entry
Wordsmith

Shake with ice

3/4 oz or 22.5ml overproof Jamaican rum( suggested: Smith & Cross)

3/4 oz or 22.5ml Green Chartreuse

3/4 oz or 22.5ml Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur

3/4 oz or 22.5ml lime juice

Strain into prechilled coupe, lime twist

from the mind of Chuck Taggart @sazeracla.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Some Philadelphia Fish-House Punch is in my future…

Not much real peach brandy (eau de vie) being produced anymore. High Wire does a delish bottled-in-bond version. And this year I was lucky enough to snag a bottle.
October 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Gibson

2.5 oz Sipsmith London Dry Gin
0.5 oz Noilly Prat Extra Dry vermouth

Stirred with ice until very cold
Strained into a prechilled coupe

Garnished with one home pickled onion per recipe found in Robert O Simonson ‘s Substack, The Mix.

#Cheers 🍸
October 18, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Irish Coffee as per Jeffrey Morgenthaler

1½ oz (45 ml) Irish whiskey
2 tsp (10 ml) 2:1 brown sugar syrup
3 oz (90 ml) hot, strong coffee
1½ oz (45 ml) heavy cream, lightly whipped

To a preheated Irish Coffee glass,
Add whiskey, brown sugar syrup, and coffee to glass. Float cream.

#Cheers 🍸
October 17, 2025 at 12:52 AM
At the cabin so limited options…

wanted a Manhattan but not a Manhattan

Settled in with a Tipperary variation

Hugo Ensslin went 1:1:1

I chose 2:1:large dash

2 oz Redbreast Cask Strength
1 oz sweet vermouth
large dash Green Chartreuse

stirred with ice, strained into a coupe
October 12, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Boulevardier as adapted by Dr. Cocktail

2 oz bourbon whiskey
1 oz sweet vermouth
1 oz Campari

You could certainly stir with ice and strain over ice in an old fashioned glass but O was lazy and just finger stirred with a big hunk in ice

Orange twist discarded or dropped in.

#Cheers 🍸
October 8, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Leaving of Liverpool
By @davidwondrich.bsky.social

shake well with ice

1.5 oz Irish pot-still whiskey,
.5 oz rich Jamaican rum,
.5 oz lemon juice,
.5 oz cold black tea,
.5 oz rich simple syrup.

Strain into rocks glass over fresh ice and grate nutmeg on top.

#Cheers 🍸
October 5, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Little Italy

Audrey Saunders, Pegu Club, NY 2005

Stir with ice:

2 oz Rittenhouse 100-proof Bonded Rye
0.75 oz Martini & Rossi Vermouth Rosso
0.5 oz Cynar

Strain into a coupe.
Garnish with a cherry.

from Robert Simonson’s Modern Classics of the Cocktail Renaissance app

#Cheers 🍸
August 27, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Little Italy

Audrey Saunders, Pegu Club, NY 2005

Stir with ice:

2 oz Rittenhouse 100-proof Bonded Rye
0.75 oz Martini & Rossi Vermouth Rosso
0.5 oz Cynar

Strain into a coupe.
Garnish with a cherry.

from Robert Simonson’s Modern Classics of the Cocktail Renaissance app

#Cheers 🍸
August 27, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Widow’s Twist

Robert Simonson, 2022 @robertsimonson.bsky.social

•2 ounces Laird’s bonded apple brandy
•1/4 yellow Chartreuse
•1/4 Benedictine
•3/4 lime juice
•1/4 simple syrup (2:1)

Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker, shake, strain into a chilled coupe.
August 23, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Mai Tai (Trader Vic, 1944)

lots of debate out there but I always come back to Jeff Berry’s version.

1 oz fresh lime juice
½ oz orange curaçao
¼ oz orgeat syrup
¼ oz sugar syrup
1 oz dark jamaican rum
1 oz aged martinique rum

Shake well with plenty of crushed ice.

#Cheers 🍸
August 14, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Fitzgerald

Dale DeGroff, Rainbow Room, NYC 1994-1996

Shake with ice:

1.5 oz dry gin
1 oz simple syrup
0.75 oz lemon juice
2 dashes Angostura Bitters

Strain into a rocks glass.
Garnish with a slice of lemon.

#Cheers
August 13, 2025 at 12:39 AM
My little cheat on a 50/50 …

1.5 oz Sipsmith V.J.O.P Gin (57.7% ABV)
1.5 oz Dolin Dry Vermouth
One home pickled onion
bitters if you like

Stirred with ice til bitter cold, strain into cooled coupe. Smile.
June 18, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Cocktail to go with today’s entry

Death Flip - Chris Hysted 2010

1 oz blanco tequila
0.5 oz yellow Chartreuse
0.5 oz Jägermeister
1 dash simple syrup
1 whole egg

shake with ice, strain into sour glass, garnish with freshly grated nutmeg

Recipe from Robert O Simonson’s app Modern Classics #Cheers
June 9, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Well, while it’s a Zombie glass that’s a Mamie Taylor in’it. Nice to wash down those chorizo tacos on a lovely warm Seattle evening.
June 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Sazerac Cocktail tonight

Recipe per recent post by @davidwondrich.bsky.social

or check out the recipe from the Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails pg 627

This one is a ritual.

#Cheers
June 6, 2025 at 1:08 AM
a cabin Manhattan

2 1/2 Rittenhouse Rye
1 Noilly Prat Rouge
2 dashes Angostura bitters
preserved Montmorency cherry

primitive conditions but AOK

#Cheers
April 27, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Prost!
April 24, 2025 at 1:08 AM
At Gothic Bar at King’s Cross. If their drinks are half as good as the menu is beautiful, I will be happy.
April 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Gibson to day, off to London tomorrow…
March 26, 2025 at 1:58 AM
American Brown Ale at Whitewall Brewing Company. If you’ve got a brown ale, I’ll drink it. Darn fine. So glad some brewers in the Pacific Northwest are willing to serve my needs.
March 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails pg 454 contr @davidwondrich.bsky.social

Meder’s Swan genever

“although not the largest or oldest of Dutch marks, was nonetheless the most widely known and consistently popular Dutch gin in America in the nine century.”

#Cheers 🍸
March 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Philip Greene’s Lion of Baltimore (from his new book Sours, a History of the World’s Most Stories Cocktail Styles)

2 oz Jamaican dark rum
1 oz sweet vermouth
3/4 oz lime juice
1/4 oz orgeat
2-3 dashes Dale DeGroff’s pimento bitters

shaken with ice, strained into chilled coupe.
March 21, 2025 at 4:30 AM
The Slope

Julie Reiner, Clover Club, 2009

Stir with ice:

2.5 oz rye whisky
0.75 oz Punt e Mes
.25 oz apricot liqueur
1 dash Angostura bitters

Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Recipe from Robert O Simonson’s Modern Classics of the Cocktail Renaissance app. @robertsimonson.bsky.social
March 19, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Leaving of Liverpool by David Wondrich @davidwondrich.bsky.social

shake well with ice
1.5 oz Irish pot-still whiskey,
.5 oz rich Jamaican rum, .
5 oz lemon juice,
.5 oz cold black tea,
.5 oz rich simple syrup.

Strain into rocks glass over fresh ice and grate nutmeg on top.
March 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM