Underhill-Lounge

Green Dragon Cocktail
1/8 Lemon Juice. (1/4 oz Lemon Juice)
1/8 Kummel. (1/4 oz Gilka Kummel)
1/4 Green Mint. (1/2 oz Brizard Creme de Menthe)
1/2 Dry Gin. (1 oz Beefeater’s Gin)
4 Dashes Peach Bitters. (Fee’s Peach Bitters)
Shake (stir, shake, what’s it matter?) well and strain into cocktail glass.
I still haven’t taken the plunge and purchased “Green Mint,” so [...]

Note: The Savoy nights at Alembic have been on hiatus recently. There have been some rumors of their return. I will post when I know more.

Glad Eye Cocktail
1/3 Peppermint. (3/4 oz DeKuyper White)
2/3 Absinthe. (1 1/2 oz Lucid Absinthe)
(Dash Fee’s Mint Bitters)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
I really was not looking forward [...]

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 [...]

Fantasio Cocktail (No. 1)
1/6 White Crème de Menthe.
1/6 Maraschino.
1/3 Brandy.
1/3 Dry Gin.
Stir well and strain into cocktail glass.

Fantasio Cocktail. (No. 2.)
1/6 White Crème de Menthe. (1/2 of 3/4 oz Creme de Menthe)
1/6 Maraschino. (1/2 of 3/4 oz Maraschino)
1/3 Brandy. (3/4 oz Brandy)
1/3 Dry Gin. (3/4 oz Gin)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
I’ve stared and [...]

Fallen Angel Cocktail
1 Dash Angostura Bitters.
2 Dashes Crème de Menthe. (1/2 bar spoon Brizard Crème de Menthe)
The Juice of 1 Lemon or 1/2 Lime. (Juice 1 lemon)
1 Glass Dry Gin. (2 oz Aviation Gin)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
It has never been made quite clear as to whether this is intended to be taken [...]

“Everybody’s Irish” Cocktail
3 Dashes Green Mint. (1/2 tsp. Brizard Creme de Menthe)
6 Dashes Green Chartreuse. (1 tsp. Green Chartreuse)
Irish Whiskey. (2 oz Red Breast Irish Whiskey)
(Stir well with ice, strain into a cocktail glass and…) Add a Green olive.
Created to mark, and now in great demand on, St. Patrick’s Day. The green olive suspended [...]

The Dodge Special Cocktail
1/2 Gin. (generous 1 oz Beefeaters)
1/2 Cointreau or Mint. (Generous 1 oz Cointreau)
1 Dash Grape Juice. (Dash Twin Hill Ranch Grape Juice)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
This is another prohibition era libation from Judge Jr.’s “Here’s How”.
With Cointreau and the proportions above, this is so awful as to be puzzling. I [...]

Dixie Whisky Cocktail
(6 People)
To 2 lumps of sugar (Dash Depaz Cane Syrup) add a small teaspoon of Angostura Bitters (Nice Dash of Angostura), another of Lemon Juice (Dash Lemon Juice), 4 glasses of Whisky (2 1/4 oz Weller 12 Year old Bourbon), a small teaspoonful of Curacao (barely a dash of Dash Brizard Orange [...]

Diana Cocktail
Use Port Wine Glass.
Fill with shaved ice.
Fill Glass 3/4 full with White Crème de Menthe (Brizard) and top with Brandy (Maison Surrenne Petite Champagne Cognac).
Ya know, I expected to hate this.
A glass 3/4 full of Crème de Menthe topped with Brandy.
An inverse stinger! How could that be good?
It’s actually kind of nice, in [...]

Coronation Cocktail (No. 2)
1 Dash Peppermint. (Brizard Creme de Menthe)
1 Dash Peach Bitters. (Fee’s)
3 Dashes Curacao (teaspoon Brizard Orange Curacao)
2/3 Brandy (1 1/2 oz Germain-Robin Fine Alembic Brandy)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass.
Well, here’s another one that doesn’t add up to 1, again lending weight to the idea that the fractions in [...]