Underhill-Lounge

Country Club Cooler
1 glass French Vermouth. (2 oz Noilly Prat Dry)
1 Teaspoonful Grenadine. (Home made)
2 Lumps of ice.
Pour into tumbler and fill up with soda water.
Just didn’t do much for me.
I suppose the Country Club Cooler is fine and all. Might be a refreshing drink on a hot day. Or one of the fancy vermouths, [...]

Corpse Reviver (No. 1)
1/4 Italian Vermouth. (3/4 oz Carpano Antica)
1/4 Apple Brandy or Calvados. (3/4 oz Germain-Robin Apple Brandy)
1/2 Brandy. (1 1/2 oz Maison Surrenne Petite Champagne Cognac)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass.
To be taken before 11 a.m., or whenever steam and energy are needed.
Apparently “Corpse Revivers” were a class of pre-prohibition [...]

Coronation Cocktail (No. 1)
1/2 Sherry. (1 1/2 oz Domecq La Ina Fino Sherry)
1/2 French Vermouth. (1 1/2 oz Noilly Prat Dry Vermouth)
1 Dash Maraschino. (Luxardo)
2 Dashes Orange Bitters. (1 dash Regan’s, 1 dash Fee’s)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Again, prefer to build these sorts of things over rocks, so there you go.
This was really [...]

Cordova Cocktail
2/3 Dry Gin. (1 1/2 oz Tanqueray)
1 Dash Absinthe. (Lucid Absinthe)
1 Teaspoonful Fresh Cream.
1/3 Italian Vermouth. (3/4 oz Cinzano Rosso)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
I was making dinner and had some fennel fronds around, so I dropped a couple on top as a garnish.
This was kind of weird.
Cream, Gin, Sweet Vermouth, and Absinthe [...]

Cooperstown Cocktail
1/3 French Vermouth. (1 oz Noilly Prat Dry)
1/3 Italian Vermouth. (1 oz Cinzano Rosso)
1/3 Dry Gin. (1 oz Junipero Gin)
Shake (stir - eje) well and strain into cocktail glass. Add a sprig of Mint.
I first made this cocktail with another of our local gins, No. 209.
Unfortunately, it really didn’t have the Cojones to stand [...]

Cold Deck Cocktail
1/4 White Crème de Menthe. (1/4 oz Brizard)
1/4 Italian Vermouth. (3/4 oz Cinzano Rosso)
1/2 Brandy. (1 1/2 oz Maison Surrenne Petite Champagne Cognac)
Shake (stir - eje) well and strain into cocktail glass.
Reduced Crème de Menthe a bit. Still the dominating element of the cocktail.
Not sure what I think about this one. It [...]

Club Cocktail
2/3 Dry Gin (1 1/2 oz Boodles Gin)
1/3 Italian Vermouth (3/4 oz Carpano Antica)
1 Dash Yellow Chartreuse
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass.
Here’s one I expected to like a lot. While I found it fine, it didn’t jump out of the glass at me. I think the Boodles may have been a [...]

Claridge Cocktail
1/3 Dry Gin (1 oz Boodles Gin)
1/3 French Vermouth (1 oz Noilly Prat Dry)
1/6 Apricot Brandy (1/2 oz Rothman and Winter Orchard Apricot)
1/6 Cointreau (1/2 oz Cointreau)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass.
I just got this new Apricot liqueur from Rothman and Winter. I was really hoping with it’s delicious fresh taste [...]

Cinzano Cocktail
2 Dashes Angostura Bitters
2 Dashes Orange Bitters (Regan’s Orange Bitters)
1 Glass Cinzano Vermouth (2 oz Cinzano Rosso)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass (Build over cracked ice in a medium glass. Stir to chill.), and sqeeze orange peel on top.
As usual, rocks, thank you very much, for my vermouth cocktails.
Got myself a fresh bottle [...]

Church Parade Cocktail
2/3 Plymouth Gin (1 1/2 oz Plymouth Gin)
1 Dash Orange Curacao (1/3 tsp. Brizard Orange Curacao)
4 Dashes Orange Juice (1 1/3 tsp. Orange Juice)
1/3 French Vermouth (3/4 oz Noilly Prat Dry Vermouth)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass
After the last few “cocktails” I was kind of excited that I would get to make [...]