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Harry’s Pick-Me-Up Cocktail
1 Teaspoonful Grenadine. (1 barspoon Fee’s American Beauty Grenadine)
1 Glass Brandy. (2 oz Cerbois VSOP Armangac)
The Juice of 1/2 Lemon. (About 3/4 oz Lemon Juice)
Shake well and strain into medium sized wine glass, and fill balance with Champagne (Louis Bouillot Cremant de Bourgogne Brut). (Lemon Peel.)
There are a few “Pick-Me-Up” cocktail in the [...]

Harry’s Cocktail
1/3 Gancia Italian Vermouth. (3/4 oz Vya Sweet Vermouth)
1 Dash Absinthe. (1/3 tsp. Lucid Absinthe)
2/3 Gin. (1 1/2 oz Beefeater’s Gin)
2 Sprigs of Fresh Mint.
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass. Serve with a stuffed olive.
Sorry, didn’t think to add the olive until after I took the picture.
For some reason, which [...]

A few years ago Eugene, Oregon bartender Jeffrey Morgenthaler decided America needed another holiday, a day to celebrate the ratification of the 21st Amendment.  This Amendment to our Constitution repealed the 18th Amendment, and along with it, federally mandated prohibition in America.
With that in mind, he created “Repeal Day“.
To quote from Jeffrey’s website:
On December 5th, [...]

Harrovian Cocktail
1 Dash Angostura Bitters.
1 Teaspoonful Orange Juice. (1 teaspoon clementine juice)
1 Dash Lemon Juice. (1/3 teaspoon Lemon Juice)
1 Glass Dry Gin. (2 oz Plymouth Gin)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass. (Orange Peel.)
“Harrovian” appears to be a term which refers to those who attend Harrow School and also the alumni of that organization. [...]

For a few years, maybe in the 1980s, Tanqueray made another gin supposedly based on a formula they made in the 19th Century. It was called “Malacca” and discontinued a number of years back.
Because many people feel it is the closest gin formula to a certain style of “Old Tom Gin” bottles are highly [...]

Hanky Panky Cocktail
2 Dashes Fernet Branca.
1/2 Italian Vermouth. (1 1/2 oz Vya Sweet Vermouth)
1/2 Dry Gin. (1 1/2 oz Tanqueray Gin)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass. Squeeze orange peel on top.
This is from a document I got from the Savoy Hotel:
…the American Bar at The Savoy was in situ by 1898 [...]

H. and H. Cocktail*
2 Dashes Curacao. (Brizard Orange Curacao)
1/3 Glass Kina Lillet. (3/4 oz Cocchi Americano)
2/3 Glass Dry Gin. (1 1/2 oz No. 209 Gin)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass. Squeeze orange peel on top.
*Happier and Happier? or Hoarser and Hoarser? or Hazier and Hazier?
If you know anything about me by now, you know [...]

Hakam Cocktail
1 Dash Orange Bitters. (light dash Regan’s and Fee’s Orange Bitters)
2 Dashes Curacao. (Brizard Orange Curacao)
1/2 Dry Gin. (1 oz Tanqueray Gin)
1/2 Italian Vermouth. (1 oz Vya Sweet Vermouth)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass. (Orange Peel.)
The last of this trifecta of Dry Gin and Italian Vermouth Cocktails, I found the Hakam the most [...]

Gypsy Cocktail
1/2 Italian Vermouth. (1 1/2 oz Vya Sweet Vermouth)
1/2 Plymouth Gin. (1 1/2 oz Plymouth Navy Strength Gin)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass. (Lemon Peel.)
I haven’t found Plymouth Gin to stand up particularly well against Dry Vermouth in Fifty-Fifty type cocktails, let alone sweet vermouth, so I thought the Gypsy [...]

Guard’s Cocktail
2 Dashes Curacao. (scant barspoon Senior Curacao of Curacao)
1/3 Italian Vermouth. (3/4 oz Vya Sweet Vermouth)
2/3 Dry Gin. (1 1/2 oz Tanqueray Gin)
(dash Regan’s Orange Bitters)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass.
Odd how cocktails with similar ingredients sometimes pile up. Just a bit ago we had two cocktails in a row involving [...]