Underhill-Lounge

Devil’s Cocktail
1/2 Port Wine. (1 1/4 oz Ficklin Old Vine Tinta Port)
1/2 French Vermouth. (1 1/4 oz Noilly Prat)
2 Dashes Lemon Juice.
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass.
Well, this is an appropriately named cocktail for Halloween.
Though, it really doesn’t seem particularly satanic to me.
It is refreshing, light, and somewhat wine-like.
Aside from the color, [...]

Deauville Cocktail
1/4 Brandy. (Generous 1/2 oz Maison Surrenne Petite Champagne Cognac)
1/4 Calvados. (Generous 1/2 oz Germain-Robin Apple Brandy)
1/4 Cointreau. (Generous 1/2 oz Cointreau)
1/4 Lemon Juice. (Generous 1/2 oz fresh lemon juice)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Quite nice! The equivalent of a 2-1-1 Sidecar.
The use of Brandy and Apple Brandy gives it a bit [...]

Darb Cocktail
1/3 French Vermouth. (3/4 oz Noilly Prat)
1/3 Dry Gin. (3/4 oz Bombay Dry Gin)
1/3 Apricot Brandy. (3/4 oz Rothman & Winter Orchard Apricot)
4 Dashes Lemon Juice. (Juice 1/8 Lemon)
Shake (Stir?) well and strain into cocktail glass.
I also tried this with Zwack Barack Palinka in place of the apricot liqueur. While that combination is, uh, [...]

Dandy Cocktail
1/2 Rye or Canadian Club Whisky. (1 oz Rittenhouse Bonded Rye Whiskey)
1/2 Dubonnet. (1 oz Vergano Americano)
1 Dash Angostura Bitters.
3 Dashes Cointreau. (1 tsp. Cointreau)
1 Piece Lemon Peel.
1 Piece Orange Peel.
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass.
First, I find Dubonnet, at least as we have it here, made in the good old [...]

The Culross Cocktail
The Juice of 1/4 Lemon.
1/3 Kina Lillet. (3/4 oz Cocchi Americano)
1/3 Bacardi Rum. (3/4 oz Flor de Cana Extra-Dry)
1/3 Apricot Brandy. (3/4 oz Blume Marillen Apricot Eau-de-Vie)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Since the Americano is a bit sweet and there isn’t much lemon in this, I thought I might take a friend’s [...]

Cuban Cocktail (No. 1)
The Juice of 1/4 Lemon.
1 Teaspoonful Powdered Sugar. (1 scant teaspoon Caster Sugar)
1 Glass Bacardi Rum. (2 oz Matusalem Platino)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
I’ve not really ever figured out exactly the best rum to substitute for pre-prohibition
I have been using Flor de Cana Extra Dry. A friend suggested [...]

The Crow Cocktail
1/3 Whisky. (3/4 oz Whisky)
2/3 Lemon Juice. (1 1/2 oz Lemon Juice)
1 Dash Grenadine. (homemade)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Well, that is what it is supposed to be according to Harry Craddock. And, yep, that is undrinkable.
However, the Crow Cocktail turns out to be one of the more dramatic Savoy Cocktail [...]

Corpse Reviver (No. 2)
1/4 Wine Glass Lemon Juice (3/4 oz Fresh Lemon Juice)
1/4 Wine Glass Kina Lillet. (3/4 oz Cocchi Aperitivo Americano)
1/4 Wine Glass Cointreau. (3/4 oz Cointreau)
1/4 Wine Glass Dry Gin. (3/4 oz Bombay Gin)
1 Dash Absinthe. (Verte de Fougerolles)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Note: Four of these taken in swift succession will [...]

The Cornell Special Cocktail
1/4 Part Gin. (3/4 oz Tanqueray)
1/4 Part Benedictine. (3/4 oz Benedictine)
1/4 Part Lemon. (3/4 oz Fresh Squeezed Lemon Juice)
1/4 Part Lithia Water. (3/4 oz Gerolsteiner Heavy Mineral Content Mineral Water)
Stir well and serve in cocktail glass.
Well, this one gave me a lot of trouble. I found some online sources that purported to [...]

Commodore Cocktail
1 Teaspoonful Syrup. (1 teaspoon depaz cane syrup)
2 Dashes Orange Bitters. (1 dash Angostura Orange, 1 Dash Angostura Aromatic)
The Juice of 1/2 Lime or 1/4 Lemon. (1/4 Lemon)
1 Glass Canadian Club Whisky. (1 3/4 oz 40 Creek Barrel Select Whisky, 1/4 oz Buffalo Trace Bourbon)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
I’m spiking the 40 [...]