Author: The Cocktails Must Flow

Our first cocktail is the Quill, a Negroni variant which is much more than just a rise of absinthe suggests. Credited to Frank C. Payne of New York, USA in the 1996 edition of Harry McElhone’s classic cocktail book “Harry’s ABC of Mixing Cocktails”.

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Our third and final cocktail is the Cosmopolitan (DeGroff). A variant of the original Cosmopolitan created by Dale DeGroff in the mid-90s, which has become the modern standard.

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Our second cocktail is the Sweet Aperol Martini, of unknown origin.

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Our first cocktail is the Contessa, a sweeter Negroni variant, which replaces the Campari for Aperol and uses dry vermouth in place of sweet, attributed to John Gertsen, Drink Bar, Boston, USA.

The Negroni is a very popular cocktail which has many variants.

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Our third and final cocktail is the Blue Helmet. Created by Monica Perez of Monica Mixes at Christmas 2023; named for United Nations Peacekeeping who wear blue helmets.

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Our second cocktail is the Swiss Account. Created by Griffin Cox of Lot Six, Halifax, Canada in 2017; this is Simon Difford’s variant which doubles the Benedictine D.O.M..

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Our first cocktail is the Milanese Gin & Tonic, whgich is, depending on your point of view, a variant of the Negroni or of the Gin & Tonic.

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Our third and final cocktail is the Safe Word. A variant of the Last Word, created by Matt Lofink at Cure in New Orleans, USA, in 2022, which replaces maraschino cherry liqueur with white creme de cacao.

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Our second cocktail is the Maida Vale. Created in 2011 by Andy Green of Unripe, London, England, and originally called the Unripe Manhattan, it was later renamed to Maida Vale. It’s a variant of the Manhattan which uses bourbon while retaining some rye whiskey and adds white vermouth alongside the sweet.

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Our first cocktail is the Aperol Cosmopolitan, a grown up variant of the Cosmopolitan which replaces the cranberry juice with Aperol.

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