The French Quarter in New Orleans has brought us a significant number of classic cocktails. In French, “Vieux Carré” means “Old Square” referring to the French Quarter where this cocktail was first crafted in the 1930’s at the famous Carousel …
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The Greenpoint
I am a Rye guy. I love the way that it offers a spicier character to cocktails than its more popular cousin Bourbon. So, today as we work our way through cocktails named after the Boroughs of New York, we …
Monticello Cocktail
Today’s clever cocktail comes to us from The 12 Bottle Bar book by David and Leslie Solmonson. It is a drink that the authors created based on America’s first home-grown whiskey, Rye. In 1797 George Washington constructed a distillery on …
The Walnut Divan Cocktail
Today’s cocktail is an original from the Bottle Pros Cocktail Kitchen. It employs the use of home-made Walnut Orgeat cocktail syrup. Traditional Orgeat is almond cocktail syrup that was popular in the Tiki Cocktail culture. The classic formula for making …
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