Underhill-Lounge

Harvard Cocktail
2 Dashes Angostura Bitters.
1 Dash Syrup. (1/3 tsp Mesquite Gum Syrup)
1/2 Brandy. (1 1/2 oz Cerbois VSOP Armangac)
1/2 Italian Vermouth. (1 1/2 oz Vya Sweet Vermouth)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass. (Rose Geranium Flowers.)
Sorry to go all “Farmers’ Market” and flowery on you. I’ve been experimenting with taking pictures outside and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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? [...]

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 [...]

Fourth Degree Cocktail
1/3 French Vermouth. (3/4 oz Dolin Dry Vermouth)
1/3 Gin. (3/4 oz Tanqueray Dry Gin)
1/3 Italian Vermouth. (3/4 oz Martini & Rossi Rosso)
4 Dashes of Absinthe. (1 tsp. Absinthe Verte de Fougerolles)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass. (Squeeze lemon peel on top.)
I was all set to say I preferred this cocktail [...]