Underhill-Lounge

The Barbary Coast Cocktail
1/4 Gin. (1 oz Beefeater’s Gin)
1/4 Scotch Whisky. (1 oz Compass Box Asyla Scotch Whisky)
1/4 Crème de Cacao. (1 oz Bols White Creme de Cacao)
1/4 Cream. (1 oz Cream)
Cracked Ice.
Serve in a highball glass. (Fill highball glass with crushed ice, build ingredients in glass, stir until outside of glass frosts over.)
Most other [...]

Barbara Cocktail
1/4 Fresh Cream. (1/2 oz Cream)
1/4 Crème de Cacao. (1/2 oz Bols White Crème de Cacao)
1/2 Vodka. (1 oz Rain Vodka)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass. (Shake on some Cocoa Powder to garnish.)

This Alexander variation is one of the only 4 uses of Vodka in the Savoy Cocktail book. I admit, I prefer [...]

Balm Cocktail
(6 People)
1/2 Glass Orange Juice. (1/2 oz fresh squeezed)
1/2 Glass Cointreau (1/2 oz)
3 Glasses sherry. (3 oz Lustau Don Nuno Dry Oloroso)
1 Dash Orange Bitters. (Regan’s)
2 Dashes Pimento Dram liqueur. (Homemade)
Fill up the shaker with cracked ice shake and serve with an olive.
The olive garnish doesn’t make any sense to me. Also not sure [...]

Bacardi Special Cocktail*
1 Teaspoonful Grenadine. (Homemade)
1/3 Burroughs Beefeater Gin. (3/4 oz Beefeater’s Gin)
2/3 Bacardi Rum. (1 1/2 oz Flor de Cana Extra Dry Gin)
The Juice of 1/2 Lime.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
*Made famous by Karl K. Kitchen, the well known New York Newspaper Columnist.
This is tastier than it really has any business being. [...]

Babbie’s Special Cocktail
1 Dash Gin. (1/2 teaspoon Beefeater’s Gin)
1/3 Sweet Cream. (3/4 oz Cream)
2/3 Apricot Brandy. (1 1/2 oz Vedrenne Liqueur de Abricot)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
I really hope Babbie was special for some other reason than her taste in cocktails. Beautiful? Rich?
I found the drink much improved with a dash [...]

Another easy, old favorite. You can make it with any root vegetables you like.
You’ll need a couple sweet potatoes, a couple parsnips, tofu, an onion, 3 tomatoes, a few cloves of garlic, an inch piece of fresh ginger root and curry powder.
I usually make my own curry powder by toasting 1 teaspoon of whole [...]

Aviation Cocktail
1/3 Lemon Juice. (3/4 oz Fresh Lemon Juice)
2/3 Dry Gin. (1 1/2 oz Plymouth Gin)
2 Dashes Maraschino. (1/2 tsp. Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur)
[2 Dashes Creme de Violette] (1/2 tsp. Rothman and Winter Creme de Violette Liqueur)
(1/2 teaspoon Rich Simple Syrup)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass. (Garnish with cherry.)
In one of the Savoy Cocktail Book’s [...]

Out with friends last night at Alembic Bar here in San Francisco, I was thrilled to see Russian River’s Pliny the Younger on tap.
Pliny the Younger is a triple IPA (India Pale Ale) Russian River only brews in limited amounts, once a year. This is the first time I’ve had a chance to try [...]

Well, that’s pretty much it for New York.
Another breakfast at Kitchenette, a little loitering, and a cab ride back to the airport.
We hardly made a dent in the long list of places we had wanted to get to or, especially, people to visit.
Thanks to anyone who helped Mrs. Underhill and I out with advice, bought [...]

ATTY Cocktail
1/4 French Vermouth. (3/4 oz Noilly Prat Dry Vermouth)
3 Dashes Absinthe. (1/2 tsp Verte de Fougerolles Absinthe)
3/4 Dry Gin. (1 1/2 oz Mild Dry Gin, Beefeater’s and Aviation are current faves in this cocktail)
3 Dashes Crème de Violette. (1/2 tsp Rothman and Winter Creme de Violette)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass. [...]