The Cocktails Must Flow

Our third cocktail is the Diamondback Lounge. The signature cocktail of the Diamondback Lounge bar of the Lord Baltimore Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. The hotel opened in 1928 and is still open, but the lounge is long gone. The cocktail featured in Ted Saucier’s 1951 book Bottoms Up.

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Our second cocktail is the Widow’s Kiss. A classic cocktail created in the 1890s by George J. Kappeler at New York City’s Holland House Hotel; it featured in his 1895 book Modern American Drinks before coming to wider prominence in the 1900 edition of Harry Johnson’s famous Bartenders Manual.

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Our first cocktail is the Crimson King. A Negroni variant, of an unknown creator. It is thought to be named after the antagonist in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series.

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Our third cocktail is the Alice Mine. A vintage cocktail of unknown origin.

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Our second cocktail is the Charlie Chaplin. Named in honour of the silent movie star, the Charlie Chaplin is a classic tangy sloe gin cocktail.

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Our first cocktail is the Apricot Negroni, which was created by Raphaelle Chaize, Giffard beverage expert.

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Our third cocktail is the Classic Sweet Martini. When we posted the sweet martini originally, we used a opdern version which is a lot heavier on the gin. Today’s closing cocktail is the traditional recipe from the 1880s. It featured in Harry Johnson’s 1888 New and Improved Bartender’s Manual[/i and is a fifty-fifty of Old Tom Gin and sweet vermouth with two dashes of orange bitters.

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Our second cocktail is the Gloria. A variant of the Negroni, created by French actress Marie Glory, who won a prize at a 1929 cocktail competition.

We picked this cocktail as it is Negroni Week.

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Our first cocktail is the Limoncello Negroni Bianco. The Limoncello Negroni is pretty good, but limoncello is yellow and we wanted a yellow Limoncello Negroni, so we created a variant of the Negroni Bianco, which replaces the white vermouth with limoncello.

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Our third cocktail is the The Chancellor. Possibly related to the Rob Roy, The Chancellor replaces the sweet vermouth with ruby port and dry vermouth.

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