Underhill-Lounge

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 [...]

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 [...]

Dinah Cocktail
First put 2 or 3 sprigs of fresh mint (1 sprig) in the shaker and bruise them lightly against the sides of the shaker by stirring with a silver spoon. Pour into the shaker 3 glasses of Whisky (2 oz W.L. Weller 12 Year) and let it stand for some minutes. Add 3 glasses [...]

2 Dashes Peach Bitters. (Fee’s Peach bitters)
2 Sprigs Fresh Mint.
1 Glass Dry Gin. (2 oz Bombay Gin)
Shake(*) well and strain into cocktail glass.
Can you imagine what a bartender would say about you if you ordered this? “Oh, I’ll have 2 oz of gin shaken with a couple sprigs of mint and a dash or two [...]

Clover Leaf
The same as CLOVER CLUB, with a sprig of fresh mint on top.
so…
The Juice of 1/2 Lemon or of 1 Lime (Juice 1/2 Lemon)
1/3 Grenadine (3/4 oz Homemade Grenadine)
The White of 1 Egg (whisk this a bit before adding)
2/3 Dry Gin (1 1/2 oz Boodles Gin)
Shake well (Combine above ingredients in boston shaker and [...]

Oddly, Genevieve makes a pretty tasty Julep type thing. I mean, you do have to like the flavor of the gin to start with. Also mint goes well with the odd Italian herbal liqueur Strega. As always, I am thinking, why not put these tastes together?
1/2 oz Strega
Sprigs Mint
2 oz Genevieve
In the [...]