Underhill-Lounge

Gene Tunney Cocktail
1 Dash Orange Juice. (1 tsp. Blood Orange Juice)
1 Dash Lemon Juice. (1 tsp Lemon Juice)
1/3 French Vermouth. (3/4 oz Dolin Dry Vermouth)
2/3 Plymouth Gin. (1 1/2 oz Plymouth Gin)
Shake (stir?) well and strain into cocktail glass.
Well, that is a bit odd…
Gene Tunney
Gene Tunney-bright, good-looking, and an acknowledged pillar of the 1920s’ “Golden [...]

Gene Corrie Cocktail
1/2 Hercules. (1 oz YerbaMate/Steepsinthe/Dubonnet Mixture)
1/2 Dry Gin. (1 oz Tanqueray Gin)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
I suspect the Gene Corri(e) here is Eugene Corri, a rather well known boxing referee who died in 1933. On December 7, 1907, at the fight between Gunner Moir and Tommy Burns, he became the first [...]

Gazette Cocktail
1 Teaspoonful Syrup. (1 tsp. Depaz Cane Syrup)
1 Teaspoonful Lemon Juice
1/2 Italian Vermouth. (1 oz Martini & Rossi Rosso)
1/2 Brandy. (1 oz Cerbois VSOP Armangac)
Shake (stir?) well and strain into cocktail glass.
Could go either way, shaking or stirring with this one.
A bit odd and pretty OK as cocktails go. Don’t know of too many [...]

You may remember Josey Packard from a bartender feature I published last September.
Josey Packard
According to my latest information, she has scored a bartending gig in the Boston area.
It’s a new place called, “Drink“.
If you stop by and she’s behind the bar, please say “hi!” from me and convey my regards.

Gasper Cocktail
(6 People)
3 Glasses Gin. (1 oz Beefeater’s Gin)
3 Glasses Absinthe. (1 oz Marteau Verte Classique)
Add, if required, a very little sugar. (1 tsp. Depaz Cane Syrup)
Shake (stir, please) well and serve.
In stark contrast to the Gangadine Cocktail, this is not a girly Absinthe cocktail!
In fact, if there was ever a cocktail that could [...]

Gangadine Cocktail
1 Teaspoonful Framboise Syrup. (1 tsp Monin Raspberry Syrup)
1/3 Oxygenie Cusenier. (3/4 oz Kubler 53)
1/3 White Mint. (3/4 oz Brizard Creme de Menthe)
1/3 Gin. (3/4 oz Beefeater’s Gin)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Wow, is this a pink, girly, and deadly drink. I’d give it points right there along with the Between the [...]

Full House Cocktail
1/4 Swedish Punch. (generous 1/2 oz homemade)
1/4 French Vermouth. (generous 1/2 oz Dolin Dry Vermouth)
1/2 Bacardi Rum. (generous 1 oz Flor de Cana Extra Dry)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass. (Squeeze Lemon Peel over glass.)
You may recognize this as the Four Flush Cocktail without the grenadine. I suppose, [...]

Froupe Cocktail
l Teaspoonful Benedictine.
1/2 Italian vermouth. (generous 1 oz Martini & Rossi Rosso)
1/2 Brandy. (Generous 1 oz Cerbois VSOP Armangac)
Stir well and strain into cocktail glass.
Another Savoy typo, it appears. Robert Vermeire calls this the “Fioupe Cocktail” and states, “Monsieur Fioupe is a familiar figure known all along the Riviera, by everybody, from prince to [...]

Froth Blower Cocktail
The White of 1 Egg.
1 Teaspoonful Grenadine. (homemade)
1 Glass Plymouth Gin. (2 oz Tanqueray Gin)
Shake well and strain into port wine glass.
As someone who is interested in technique, egg whites frustrate me. Sometimes you get a good amount, and sometimes they don’t work. This isn’t totally shabby, I suppose. A good eighth to [...]

The French “75” Cocktail
2/3 Gin. (1 1/2 oz Aviation Gin)
1/3 Lemon Juice (3/4 oz Lemon Juice)
1 Spoonful Powdered Sugar. (1 tsp. Caster Sugar)
(Shake with ice?) Pour into tall glass containing cracked ice and fill up with Champagne (Louis Bouillot, Cremant de Bourgogne Rose ”Perle d’Aurore”).
Hits with remarkable precision.
Visually quite attractive to use a Rose Champagne [...]