Underhill-Lounge

The Apple Jack Rabbit Cocktail
1 Hooker of Applejack. (1 1/2 oz Laird’s Bonded Apple Brandy)
The Juice of 1 Lemon. (1 oz Lemon Juice)
The Juice of 1 Orange. (2 oz Fresh Orange Juice)
1 Hooker of Maple Syrup. (1 1/2 oz Maple Syrup)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
This is a somewhat odd recipe for a few [...]

Certainly featuring Lagunitas Brewing often enough on this blog!
Lagunitas make a couple strong beers every year around the holidays. Brown Shugga usually shows up around Thanksgiving. The story with that beer, is, one of the Brewer Assistants mis-read the amount of Brown Sugar called for in their Barley Wine style Ale recipe, Olde [...]

I have wasted so much cocktail time this week avoiding the obvious with this cocktail.
I had an idea to create a cocktail that featured the Death’s Door Gin. When I was thinking about it, the interesting fact that the Bernheim Wheat Whiskey was also made on a Wheat base piqued my interest so I [...]

Apple Pie Cocktail
1/2 Bacardi Rum. (1 1/2 oz Flor de Cana Extra Dry Rum)
1/2 Italian Vermouth. (1 1/2 oz Cinzano Rosso Vermouth)
4 Dashes Apricot Brandy. (1 teaspoon Vedrenne Liqueur de Abricot)
2 Dashes Grenadine. (1/2 teaspoon home made Grenadine)
4 Dashes Lemon Juice. (1 teaspoon Lemon Juice)
Shake (or stir? I’d lean towards stirring.) well and strain [...]

There’s a fantastic feature on San Francisco area bartenders in today’s San Francisco Chronicle Wine Section:
Bar Stars: The Chronicle honors bartenders who are defining Bay Area cocktail culture
Includes profiles and cocktails from Daniel Hyatt of Alembic, Camber Lay of Epic Roasthouse, Martin Cate of Forbidden Island, Neyah White of Nopa, Carlos Yturria and Dominic Venegas.
Also [...]