Cocktail Confidential: The Recipes

Willie’s Revenge – Fleet Street Kitchen

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

• 3/4 oz. Gordon & MacPhail
• Highland Park 8-year Scotch
• 3/4 oz. Bonal
• 3/4 oz. honey syrup (1:1 honey and water)
• 3/4 oz. lemon juice
• 1/4 oz. Kümmel
• 1 1/2 oz. Union 1895 Barley Weisse
  or other sour wheat beer

DIRECTIONS

1. Add all ingredients except beer to a shaker and shake well. Strain into a chilled cocktail coupe and top with beer.

Serves 1.

Resolve & Reward – W.C. Harlan

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

In a shaker:
• 2 oz. Armangnac
• 1/2 oz. peach cordial (combier peche)

DIRECTIONS

1. Chill a large Champagne coupe with
   ice and water until frosted.
2. Shake vigorously for 10 seconds.
3. Strain into frosted glass.

No garnish needed. Serves 1.

The Farragut – Wit and Wisdom

Ingredients:


• 1 oz. Four Roses bourbon
• ¼ oz. lemon juice

• ¼ oz. orange juice

• ¼ oz. maple sugar

• 2 dashes of Angostura bitters

Directions:
1. In a cocktail shaker mix bourbon, lemon and orange juice, maple sugar, and bitters 
together. Shake vigorously.
2. Fill a double old-fashioned glass with ice and strain into the glass.
3. Garnish with cinnamon zest and orange peel.

Peaches and Herb – Wit and Wisdom

This drink is a play on a gin fizz.

Ingredients:


• 1 ½ oz. gin

• ¾ oz. lemon juice
• ½ oz. white peach syrup
• ½ oz. egg white

• 5 oz. pineapple-sage soda

Directions:
1. Place all ingredients (except for soda) in mixing glass and dry shake (meaning to shake without ice) for twenty seconds.
2. Add ice and repeat shaking process for about 25 seconds.
3. Double strain into Collins glass.
4. Top with soda and enjoy

The Classic Lolita – PABU

A play on an Old Fashion using Japanese ingredients

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. Hakushu
• 12-year whiskey
• ½ Okinawa brown sugar

• ½ tclub soda

• 3 dashes regans orange bitters
• 2 dashes old fashion bitters garnish – twist of orange

Directions:
1. Place one large ice cube (2″ x 2″ or large sphere) into an old fashion glass.
2. Build cocktail by adding bitters, Okinawa sugar, and club soda, express an orange peel into the glass.
3. Add Hakushu whiskey.
4. Stir to incorporate all the ingredients.

The Mr. Miyagi – PABU

With Manhattan-like characteristics, the Mr. Miyagi uses bourbon and sweet vermouth and it one of PABU’s most popular cocktails.

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ oz. thyme infused bourbon
• ½ oz. carpano antica

• ½ oz. lemon juice

• ½ oz. grapefruit juice
• ½ oz. honey Garnish – thyme sprig

Directions:
1. Combine all ingredients into a shaker, and shake until cold.
2. Double strain into a large coupe, top with thyme sprig, enjoy.

Riverside – Fleet Street Kitchen

Ingredients:

• 3 one-inch watermelon cubes
• 6 mint leaves plus one more for garnish
• 2 oz. Cynar
• 1 oz. freshly squeezed limejuice
• 1/3 oz. Demerara sugar syrup (2 parts sugar, 1 part water)

Directions:

In a mixing glass, lightly muddle the watermelon, mint and sugar
syrup. Add the Cynar, and limejuice, and shake well with ice. Fine
strain into a chilled cocktail coupe and garnish with the reserved mint
leaf.

Economy Candy –Mr. Rain’s Fun House

Ingredients:

• 1 oz. Kirsch Eau de Vie
• ½ oz. Zucca Rabarbaro Amaro
• ½ oz. Dolin Dry Vermouth
• ½ oz. lime juice
• ¾ oz. celery soda (see below)

Directions:

Combine Kirsch, Zucca, Dolin Vermouth, Lemon Juice into a shaker.
Shake well. Add celery soda {combine celery syrup & soda water into a
CO2 siphon} to cocktail glass. Pour remaining contents from the shaker
over celery soda into a cocktail glass. Serve

Celery Soda Recipe:

Add 3 tablespoons celery seed to 1 quart simple syrup. Add celery
syrup and water into CO2 siphon (2 oz. celery syrup to every 4 oz.
water).

D.B.A. – Mr. Rain’s Fun House

Ingredients:

• 1 oz. Bulleit Bourbon
• ½ oz. Batavia Arrack
• ½ oz. Aperol
• ¼ oz. Luxardo Amaretto
• ½ oz. lime juice
• ½ oz. honey
• 1 dash Angostura bitters
• ¾ oz. seltzer

Directions:

Combine bourbon, arrack, amaretto, lime juice, honey, and Angostura
bitters into a shaker. Shake well. Add soda water to a cocktail glass.
Pour remaining contents from the shaker over soda. Garnish with brandied
cherry.

The Miller’s Daughter – Mr. Rain’s Fun House

Ingredients:

• 1 ¼ oz. Oat-infused scotch (see below)
• 1 oz. Yaegaki Nigori Sake
• ¼ oz. peach preserves
• Early gray tincture
• Fresh lemon juice

Directions:

Combine ingredients into shaker. Shake well. Serve up in a cocktail glass.

Oat Infused Scotch Recipe: Steep ½ cup steel cut
oats in blended Scotch for 72 hours in a cool space. Strain Scotch from
oats and reserve. Infused Scotch will last several months. Earl Grey Tincture Recipe: Heat
high-proof neutral spirit such as vodka (should be hot but not
boiling). Steep 4 oz. of Earl Grey to 500 ml of heated spirit. Let cool
to room temperature then store in a cool space for 1-3 weeks shaking
periodically. Strain solids from spirits then store. Preserves: You can either make them using fruit and pectin or purchase a quality preserve.