Underhill-Lounge

Green Room Cocktail
1/3 Brandy. (3/4 oz Cerbois VSOP Armangac)
2/3 French Vermouth. (1 1/2 oz Dolin Dry Vermouth)
2 Dashes Curacao. (2/3 barspoon Senior Curacao of Curacao)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass. (Orange Twist.)
This Cocktail, a great favourite with mummers, is an excellent ” pick-me-up.”
The “Green Room” is the room actors hang out [...]

Greenbriar Cocktail.
1 Dash Peach Bitters. (Fee’s Peach Bitters)
1/3 French vermouth. (3/4 oz Dolin Dry Vermouth)
2/3 Sherry. (Bodega Dios Baco Fino Sherry)
1 Sprig Fresh Mint.
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass. (Garnish with Mint tip.)
Pretty weird, and the peach bitters and mint make it seem awfully girly, but not unpleasant. Somehow, I could [...]

Grand Slam Cocktail
1/4 French Vermouth. (1/2 oz Dolin Dry Vermouth)
1/4 Italian Vermouth. (1/2 oz Vya Sweet Vermouth)
1/2 Swedish Punch. (1 oz Swedish Punch, eas recipe)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass.
Unless you enjoy drinking lollipops, this is not for you…
The flavor is certainly interesting enough, but it is just too sweet.
Some bitters perhaps? [...]

Grace’s Delight Cocktail
(6 People)
Fill a large glass with broken ice and place in it 2 glasses of Whisky, 2 ½ glasses of French Vermouth and half a glass of Raspberry Brandy. Add the juice of half an Orange, a teaspoonful of Orange-flower water, 3 Juniper berries, a bit of Cinnamon and a little Nutmeg.
Stir [...]

Golden Ermine Cocktail
1/8 Italian Vermouth. (1/4 ounce M&R Sweet Vermouth)
3/8 French Vermouth. (3/4 oz Dolin Dry Vermouth)
1/2 Dry Gin. (1 oz Beefeater’s Gin)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass.
A perfectly pleasant cocktail. Doesn’t quite reach the heights of the Fourth Degree for me, but an interesting Martini variation all the same. Nice color.
This [...]

Gilroy Cocktail
1/6 Lemon Juice. (1/2 of 3/4 oz Lemon Juice)
1/6 French Vermouth. (1/2 of 3/4 oz Dolin Dry Vermouth)
1/3 Cherry Brandy. (3/4 oz Cherry Heering)
1/3 Dry Gin. (3/4 oz Plymouth Gin)
1 Dash Orange Bitters. (Regan’s)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
I liked this one. Seems like it might be one of those fairly decent [...]

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 [...]

The Frankenjack Cocktail
1/3 Gin. (3/4 oz North Shore No. 6)
1/3 French Vermouth. (1/2 of 3/4 oz Dolin Dry Vermouth)
1/6 Apricot Brandy. (3/4 oz Haus Alpenz Blumme Marillen Apricot Eau-de-Vie)
1/6 Cointreau. (1/2 of 3/4 oz Cointreau)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
About a million years ago (OK less than a year) we made this very same [...]

Fairbanks Cocktail (No. 2)
2 Dashes Crème de Noyau. (1/2 tsp. Luxardo Amaretto)
2 Dashes Orange Bitters. (Dash Fee’s, Dash Regan’s Orange)
1/3 French Vermouth. (3/4 oz Dolin Vermouth)
2/3 Dry Gin. (1 1/2 oz Beefeater’s Gin)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass.  (Add a cherry, if desired.)
Note - We often wondered what Doug did it on [...]

Dunhill’s Special Cocktail
(6 People)
In a shaker filled with cracked Ice place a spoonful of Curacao (Dash Brizard Orange Curacao), 2 glasses of Gin (1 oz Beefeater Gin), 2 glasses of Sherry (1 oz Fino Sherry), 2 glasses of French Vermouth (1 oz Dolin Vermouth). Stir thoroughly with a spoon, shake, strain, and serve. Add [...]