The Cocktails Must Flow

Our third cocktail is the Minnie the Moocher. Pretty much a variant of the , it appeared in Charlie Conolly’s The World Famous Cotton Club: 1939 Book of Mixed Drinks. It takes it’s name from the Minnie the Moocher jazz song, first recorded in 1931 by Cab Calloway and his Orchestra.

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Our second cocktail is the Fogerty. A variant by Simon Difford of a cocktail created by Ryan Fitzgerald in 2010 at Beretta in San Francisco, USA.

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Our first cocktail is the Chocolate Hazelnut Martini. A creamy, nutty, chocolate dessert cocktail of unknown origin.

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Our third cocktail is the Merry Widow. The Merry Widow is a classic cocktail which first appeared in Hugo R. Ensslin’s Recipes for Mixed Drinks (2nd Edition) (1917); it takes it’s name from the Broadway production, The Merry Widow which opened in October 2007.

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Our first cocktail is the bourbon Alexander. A bourbon whiskey based variant of the Alexander.

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Our third cocktail is the Gin & Cabinet Sour. An attractive and tasty gin sour with a red wine float.

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Our second cocktail is the Necromancer. Despite the name, the Necromancer[/i] is an pleasant floral cocktail, combining elderflower and absinthe.

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Our first cocktail this evening is something a bit different to many of our recent first cocktails; it is the Whiskey Alexander, a whiskey based variant of the Alexander.

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Our third cocktail is the James Joyce. A simple variant of the Oriental[/i] created by Gary “Gaz” Regan in 2001 during a bartender-training seminar. It featured in his 2001 The Joy of Mixology book.

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