Cocktails, Food, and Gardening South of the hill in Bernal Heights, CA
Du Barry Cocktail
1 Dash Angostura Bitters.
2 Dashes Absinthe. (Marteau Verte Classic)
1/3 French Vermouth. (3/4 oz Noilly Prat Dry)
2/3 Plymouth Gin. (1 1/2 oz Plymouth Gin)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass. Add slice of orange.
Close, but no cigar?
If I hadn’t made my version of the Fourth Degree Cocktail recently, I would probably enjoy this more. [...]
Dry Martini Cocktail
1/2 French Vermouth. (Generous 1 oz Dolin French Vermouth)
1/2 Gin. (Generous 1 oz Junipero Gin)
1 Dash Orange Bitters. (1 dash Fee’s Orange Bitters, 1 dash Regan’s Orange Bitters)
Shake (Stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass. (Squeeze lemon peel over glass.)
As always, it’s fun to give a classic a spin with a [...]
Douglas Cocktail.
1/3 French Vermouth. (3/4 oz Noilly Prat Dry)
2/3 Plymouth Gin. (1 1/2 oz Plymouth Gin)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass. Squeeze orange and lemon peel on top.
Finally tracked down some tovolo silicon ice cube molds and experimented with them. I think 1 1/2 inch or so cubes. I can see how [...]
This is the third in an ongoing series of bartender features on the Underhill-Lounge.
Previously, I had experimented by asking the bartender at Montgomery Place to make me a Bombay Cocktail No. 2, but this just seemed to result in a grumpy bartender.
To make it less of a shock, I thought I would contact some local [...]
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 [...]
This is the second in an ongoing series of bartender features on the Underhill-Lounge.
Previously, I had experimented by asking the bartender at Montgomery Place to make me a Bombay Cocktail No. 2, but this just seemed to result in a grumpy bartender.
To make it less of a shock, I thought I would contact some local [...]
When I wrote about the Corpse Reviver No. 2, I explored the variation with Swedish Punsch instead of Lillet (or Cocchi Americano) and found I preferred the version with Cocchi Americano.
However, recently a friend mentioned they’d been enjoying the same cocktail with the version of Arrack Punch I made for Tales. I wanted to [...]
Dixie Cocktail
1/2 Dry Gin. (Generous 1 oz Beefeater’s Gin)
1/4 French Vermouth. (Generous 1/2 oz Noilly Prat Dry Vermouth)
1/4 Absinthe. (Generous 1/2 oz Marteau Verte Classique)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
As someone who is, well, “Middle Aged,” I am fascinated by people who re-invent themselves and their careers “later” in life.
Instead of accepting the status [...]
Diabola Cocktail
2/3 Dubonnet. (1 1/2 oz Dubonnet Rouge)
1/3 Gin. (3/4 oz Junipero Gin)
2 Dashes Orgeat Syrup. (Monin)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass.
This is a fine and enjoyable cocktail, significantly improved by the addition of a dash of Angostura Bitters. If you choose to make it yourself, I would advise picking a more [...]
Desert Healer Cocktail
The Juice of 1 Orange. (Juice 1 1/2 Honey Tangerine)
1 Glass Dry Gin. (2 oz No. 209 Gin)
1/2 Liqueur Glass Cherry Brandy. (3/4 oz Cherry Heering)
Shake well and strain into long tumbler and fill with Ginger Beer (Bundaberg).
In his book, “Barflies and Cocktails”, Harry McElhone notes that this cocktail, “Recipe (is) by Hon. [...]
