Underhill-Lounge

Choker Cocktail* (6 People)
4 Glasses Whisky (1 1/2 oz Binny’s Select Buffalo Trace Bourbon)
2 Glasses Absinthe (3/4 oz Lucid Absinthe)
1 Dash Absinthe Bitters (Angostura Bitters)
This Cocktail is to be very thoroughly shaken and no sweetening in any form should be added.
*Drink this and you can drink anything: new-laid eggs put into it immediately become hard-boiled.
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Castle Dip Cocktail
1/2 Apple Brandy (1 oz Laird’s Bonded Apple Brandy)
1/2 White Creme de Menthe (1 oz Brizard Creme de Menthe)
3 Dashes Absinthe (1/2 barspoon Verte de Fougerolles Absinthe)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass.
An interesting combination of flavors. Very much a dessert cocktail, however.
This post is one in a series documenting [...]

Cabaret Cocktail
1 Dash Absinthe (Verte de Fougerolles)
1 Dash Angostura Bitters
1/2 Dry Gin (1 1/2 oz Boodles Gin)
1/2 Caperitif (1 1/2 oz Dubonnet Blanc)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass. Add a Cherry.
Boodles and Absinthe go very well together. As I am well known for enjoying Martini variaions, it will probably be no [...]

Brunelle Cocktail
1/4 Absinthe (1/2 oz Verte de Fougerolles Absinthe)
1/2 Tablespoonful of Sugar (1 teaspoon caster sugar)
3/4 Lemon Juice (Juice 1/2 lemon)
(1 oz Boodles Gin)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
I normally don’t try to revise Savoy Cocktails too significantly. But, cocktails made with just Absinthe haven’t done much for me. Too rich. When I [...]

Brazil Cocktail
1 Dash Angostura Bitters
1 Dash Absinthe (1/4 barspoon Verte de Fougerolles Absinthe)
1/2 French Vermouth (2 oz Noilly Prat)
1/2 Sherry (2 oz Lustau Solera Reserva Dry Oloroso Sherry “Don Nuño”)
Stir well and strain into cocktail glass. Squeeze lemon peel on top.
The Absinthe and Lemon add a nice flavor to the Sherry and Vermouth. The [...]

Bombay Cocktail (No. 2)
1 Dash Absinthe (sadly Pernod was all they had)
3 Dashes Curacao (didn’t see brand, might have been triple sec)
1/2 Brandy (Courvoisier VSOP)
1/4 Italian Vermouth (didn’t see)
1/4 French Vermouth (didn’t see)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass
Whenever I travel, I usually send a note to some friends asking for recommendations for cocktail bars [...]

Block and Fall Cocktail
1/6 Anis del Oso or Absinthe (1/2 oz Verte de Fougerolles Absinthe)
1/6 Calvados (1/2 oz Germain-Robin Apple Brandy)
1/3 Brandy (1 oz Korbel VSPOP)
1/3 Cointreau (3/4 oz Cointreau)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass.
Another Savoy sweet-and-deadly in the style of the Between the Sheets. This one raises the ante slightly over [...]

Blackthorn Cocktail
3 Dashes Angostura Bitters
3 Dashes Absinthe (Verte de Fougerolles)
1/2 Irish Whisky (1 1/2 oz Redbreast Irish Whiskey)
1/2 French Vermouth (1 1/2 oz Noilly Prat Dry Vermouth)
Shake (stir - eje) well and strain into cocktail glass
The Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) is a bushy, spiny relative of the plum. It is often planted as living barbed wire [...]

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. [...]

Apparent Cocktail
1/2 Dry Gin (1 1/2 oz Beefeater’s Gin)
1/2 Dubonnet (1 1/2 oz Dubonnet Rouge)
1 Dash Absinthe. (1/4 tsp. Absinthe Verte de Fougerolles)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass. (Twist orange peel over glass.)
Not all gins are as happy being mixed with Absinthe as others. Experimentation has led me [...]