Underhill-Lounge

Choker Cocktail* (6 People)
4 Glasses Whisky (1 1/2 oz Binny’s Select Buffalo Trace Bourbon)
2 Glasses Absinthe (3/4 oz Lucid Absinthe)
1 Dash Absinthe Bitters (Angostura Bitters)
This Cocktail is to be very thoroughly shaken and no sweetening in any form should be added.
*Drink this and you can drink anything: new-laid eggs put into it immediately become hard-boiled.
With [...]

Bunny Hug
1/3 Gin (Almost 3/4 oz Boodles Gin)
1/3 Whisky (Almost 3/4 oz Binny’s Single Barrel Buffalo Trace Bourbon)
1/3 Absinthe (Almost 3/4 oz Absinthe Verte de Fougerolles)
Shake (Stir? What does it matter? I lean towards shake for this MF.) well and strain into cocktail glass.
This cocktail should immediately be poured down the sink before [...]

Brooklyn Cocktail
1 Dash Amer Picon (1/2 barspoon Torani Amer)
1 Dash Maraschino (1/2 barspoon Luxardo Maraschino)
2/3 Canadian Club Whisky (1 1/2 oz 40 Creek Barrel Select)
1/3 French Vermouth (3/4 oz Noilly Prat Dry Vermouth)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass.
This seemed a bit flat as written. I’ve read that Torani Amer is closer to [...]

Boomerang Cocktail
1 Dash Lemon Juice
1 Dash Angostura Bitters
1/3 French Vermouth (1 oz Noilly Prat Dry)
1/3 Canadian Club Whisky (1 oz Forty Creek Barrel Select)
1/3 Swedish Punch (1 oz homemade Sri Langkan Arrack Punch)
Shake (stir - eje) well and strain into cocktail glass. (Squeeze lemon peel over glass.)
Tasty; but, the Canadian Whisky didn’t seem to [...]

Blues Cocktail
(6 People)
Take 4 Glasses of Whisky. (4 oz Bernheim Wheat Whiskey)
1 Glass of Curacao. (1 oz Brizard Orange Curacao)
Incorporate 1 Teaspoonful of Syrup of Prunes. (1/2 teaspoon Prune Syrup)
Pour out over plenty of cracked ice and shake (stir, please) for longer and more thoroughly than usual. Serve very cold.
This Cocktail removes the Blues if [...]

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BLUE BLAZER
Use two large silver-plated mugs, with handles.
1 Wineglass Scotch Whisky. (2 oz Whiskey)
1 Wineglass Boiling Water. (About 1 oz Boiling Water)
Put the Whisky into one mug, and the boiling water into the other, ignite the Whisky with fire, and while blazing mix both ingredients by pouring them four or five times [...]

I have wasted so much cocktail time this week avoiding the obvious with this cocktail.
I had an idea to create a cocktail that featured the Death’s Door Gin. When I was thinking about it, the interesting fact that the Bernheim Wheat Whiskey was also made on a Wheat base piqued my interest so I [...]

Alice, Mine Cocktail
1/2 Italian Vermouth. (Generous 1 oz Italian Vermouth)
1/2 Russians Kummel. (Generous 1 oz Norwegian Aquavit, Dash Simple Syrup)
2 Dashes Scotch Whisky. (teaspoon Scotch Whisky)
Shake (Stir, please!) well and strain into cocktail glass.
Not having Kummel, a caraway liqueur, I cheated here and substituted Aquavit, a caraway flavored spirit.
It is all a bit confusing, in [...]