The Newfangled Cocktail

Sometimes an old-fashioned just needs to be ridiculously complicated....

1/2 Ounce Japanese Whiskey
1/2 Ounce Rye
1/2 Ounce Scotch
1/2 Ounce Elderflower Liqueur
1 Dash Orange Bitters
1 Dash Yuzu Bitters
1 Dash Chocolate Mole Bitters

Stir with ice 'till chilled. Strain and serve in pre-chilled double old-fashioned glass with one large lump of ice. Garnish with orange twist, cocktail cherry, and an orchid.

The Alvarez Spring Cocktail

Here's a cocktail I made in honor of spring and also my friend Miss Alvarez.

3/4 ounce Gin
3/4 ounce lemon juice
3/4 ounce strawberry syrup
3/4 ounce elderflower liqueur (use St. Germain... Thatchers sucks.)
6 drops absinthe (1/8 tsp)
2 dashes Lavender Bitters

This drink actually started out as a punch. Punch ratios would be more like...

750ml Gin
750ml lemon juice
750ml strawberry syrup
750ml st. germain
3 ounces absinthe
1 ounce lavender bitters.
1500ml (2 bottles) dry champagne (because what's a punch without champagne?)
Garnish with fruit in season (I'd say strawberry's and lemon slices)


To make strawberry syrup, see the post about fruit syrups.