Underhill-Lounge

Biter Cocktail (6 People)
3 Glasses of Gin (3 oz Tanqueray Gin)
1 1/2 Glasses of Lemon Juice slightly sweetened (1 1/2 oz Lemon Juice)
1 1/2 Glasses of Green Chartreuse ( 1 1/2 oz Green Chartreuse)
Before shaking add a Dash of Absinthe (Verte de Fougerolles)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
As usual with these 6 person cocktails, [...]

Biltong Dry Cocktail
1 Dash Orange Bitters.
1/4 Dubonnet. (1/2 oz Dubonnet Rouge)
1/4 Gin. (1/2 oz Tanqueray Gin)
1/2 Caperitif. (1 oz Lillet Dry)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Well, I can tell you that Biltong (wikipedia link) is a type of dried meat, (beef, game or ostrich,) originally made by Dutch “Pioneers” in South Africa.
Per cocktaildb, I’ve [...]

Interestingly, according the the document which came with this beer club release, this beer was originally brewed under contract for “an Irish musical group.” Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to figure out which musical group.
It is brewed in Belgium by a tiny microbrewery called Achilles. The documents call it a Irish Red Ale [...]

Stomping Through the Savoy, Eric Felten, Wall Street Journal, April 5, 2008
Book-bloggers have taken up everything from sole to the soul. A couple of years ago, blogress Julie Powell famously cooked her way through the book that made Julia Child a star, “Mastering the Art of French Cooking.” Last year, Slate deputy editor David Plotz [...]

Bijou Cocktail
1/3 Plymouth Gin. (3/4 oz Plymouth Gin)
1 Dash Orange Bitters. (Dash Fee’s Orange Bitters, Dash Regan’s Orange Bitters)
1/3 Green Chartreuse. (3/4 oz Green Chartreuse)
1/3 Gancia Italian Vermouth. (3/4 oz Carpano Antica Vermouth)
Mix well with a spoon in a large bar glass; strain into a cocktail glass, add a cherry or an olive, squeeze a [...]

Danger! Spirits Geekery Ahead!
There are at least three different spirits that share a similarly spelled name, Ar(r)a(c)k.
The reason for this is that the Arabic word for something that means, more or less, “booze,” sounds like Arak. Well, actually, according to Wikipedia, it means sweat or juice, and seems to refer to way the [...]

I was lucky to be invited to the opening party last night for San Francisco’s newest cocktail and food establishment, Beretta.
While I am still puzzling over the connection between Pizza and Cocktails, there is no questioning the mightiness of the cocktail list Thad Vogler has created or impressive array of staff he has assembled to [...]

Big Boy Cocktail
1/2 Brandy (1 1/2 oz Korbel VSOP)
1/4 Cointreau (3/4 oz Cointreau)
1/4 Sirop-de-Citron (3/4 oz Homemade Limoncello)
(dash lemon juice)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
After finding a couple DIY recipes for “Sirop-de-Citron” I realized the procedure for making it is about the same as for limoncello, so, instead of buying a bottle of Monin [...]