The Rob Roy is among the great classic cocktails of the world. It is basically a Scotch Manhattan that was inspired by an 1890’s operetta loosely based on the life of the Scottish folk hero, Rob Roy MacGregor. There are …
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The Smoking Ember Martini
Here is a great martini for winter sipping. It has a savory-smoky charm from the addition of an Islay Scotch. For this drink we recommend specific brands, finding each lends a particular layer to the drinks flavor profile. That said, …
The Ball Drop
As the decade comes to an end and New Year’s approaches, we wish to leave you with a creation from the Bottle Pros Cocktail Kitchen. We will be ringing in 2020 in style with a concoction we call the Ball …
The Negroni
In all of the pages of cocktails we have offered you, we somehow omitted the obligatory Negroni. If you are not familiar, and have not tried one; this is the perfect fall, gin cocktail. The story goes that in the …
I’ll have a Gibson Please…
I’ll Have a Gibson Please… The history of the Gibson Cocktail is vague at best. It was possibly created for a teetotaler who wanted to discreetly distinguish their cocktail from others. Oddly the first written recipe for the Gibson in …
Thoughts on the Martini
What happened to the Martini? Today Martinis are a shadow of what they used to be. They are fruited and laced, infused and laden with pompadours of foam. What was once beauty in simplicity has become a freak show of …
