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Created in 2011 by Ted Kilgore at the bar “Taste” in St. Louis, MIssouri. Commonly seen as a ‘bartenders handshake’ owing to the very strong components that combine to create this delicious and (believe it or not) well-balanced drink. It combines the deeply bitter amari Fernet-Branca and herbal Green Chartreuse.
Ingredients
3/4 oz Fernet 3/4 oz Fresh Squeezed Lime Juice 3/4 oz Simple Syrup 3/4 oz Green Chartreuse
Method
Place ingredients in shaking tin, add ice, shake for 15 seconds.
Double-strain into a chilled coupe glass.
Garnish with lime twist.
Equipment
Peeler or Knife
Citrus Press
Shaker
Hawthorne Strainer
Fine Strainer
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This version of the drink comes from San Francisco’s Smuggler’s Cove menu, updating a traditional recipe with bourbon that the 1873 Brooklyn Daily Eagle called it “the surest thing in the world to get drunk on” They weren’t wrong.
Ingredients
1 oz Smith & Cross Overproof Rum 1 oz Whole Milk 1 oz Heavy Cream 1/2 oz 2:1 Demerara Syrup 6 drops Vanilla Extract 1 dash Angostura Bitters
Method
Grated nutmeg for garnish Combine all ingredients and shake for 30 seconds.
Strain into a double old-fashioned glass over fresh cracked ice.
Grate a touch of fresh nutmeg over top.
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This equal-parts variant of the Prohibition-era Last Word , smoky mezcal steps in to play the role of gin from the original.
Ingredients
3/4 oz Mezcal 3/4 oz Fresh Squeezed Lime Juice 3/4 oz Maraschino Liqueur 3/4 oz Green Chartreuse
Method
Place ingredients in shaking tin, add ice, shake for 15 seconds.
Double-strain into a chilled coupe glass.
Garnish with lime twist.
Equipment
Shaker
Fine Strainer
Hawthorne Strainer
Peeler or Knife
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A tasty contrast of bitter Cynar and floral St-Germain defines this gin cocktail from Bambara in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Ingredients
1 1/2 oz Gin 1/2 oz St-Germain 1/2 oz Cynar 1/2 oz Grapefruit Syrup
Method
Combine ingredients in shaker.
Add ice, shake well for 10-15 seconds, then double- strain into a chilled coupe.
Garnish with candied grapefruit peel, a by-product of creating grapefruit oleo saccharum, as well as a fresh lemon twist.
Equipment
Shaker
Hawthorne Strainer
Peeler or Knife
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