Dating back to 1895 this Ivy League cocktail first appears in George J. Kappeler’s 1895 Modern American Drinks. The original recipe calls for equal parts of Cognac and Sweet Vermouth embellished with a touch of simple syrup, bitters and soda. …
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Evening in Kingston
We came across this recipe created by Rob Wiley in Bon Appetite magazine. It is a tall twist on the Negroni, and loosely related to a Champagne cocktail. The base for the drink is mixed up as a batch recipe …
Fall Bourbon Shandy
As we ease our way into Autumn our thoughts turn to drinking dark spirits laced with fall spices. While we still can feel the sun at our backs, the evening chill wants for something a bit savory whilst we still …
Zubrowka Martini
"It smells of freshly mown hay and spring flowers, of thyme and lavender, and it's soft on the palate and so comfortable, it's like listening to music by moonlight." - “Isabel” in Somerset Maugham's novel The Razor's Edge. We could …
The Rob Roy Cocktail
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 …
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 …
