Our first cocktail is the Americano, which was first served at Gaspare Campari’s bar in Milan, Italy, in the 1860s. The name is thought to stem from it’s popularity with American tourists.. We’ve previously posted the Milano Torino and described it as a precursor to the Negroni, but the Americano came between the two of them, where it is reputed the Count Camillo Negroni asked for the soda water in the Americano be replaced with gin.
Our third cocktail is the Porto Tonico. A traditional Portuguese aperitivo, similar to England’s Gin & Tonic.
Our second and final cocktail is the Planter’s Punch. An official IBA cocktail, the Planter’s Punch originated in Jamaica and has a simple rhyme to remember the ingredients; “one of sour, two of sweet, three of strong and four of weak”.
Our second cocktail is the Whiskey Daisy. A classic Daisy variant which uses American whiskey.
Our first cocktail is the Venom, a drink with a… certain reputation, shall we say.
A hugely popular cocktail in Scotland, created by Ross McGregor in Glasgow, 2008. As the orange juice and Blue WKD mix, the drink turns an eye-catching green.
Our third and final cocktail is the Obituary. A potent cocktail which makes use of gin, absinthe and dry vermouth. A classic cocktail dating to at least the 1940s and regarded as one of the Crescent City’s cocktails.
Our second cocktail is the Mary Pickford. Widely credited to Eddie Woelke, the Mary Pickford is named for the silent movie actress of that name.
Our first cocktail is the Pappy Honeysuckle, an unusual fresh and fruity cocktail with honeyed sweetness, created by Shelim Islam at the GE Club, London, England, in 2002.
Our third and final cocktail is the Corpse Reviver No. 2.
The Corpse Reviver #2, as described in the Savoy Cocktail Book, is the most commonly drunk of the corpse revivers, and consists of equal parts gin, lemon juice, curaçao (commonly Cointreau), Kina Lillet (now usually replaced with Cocchi Americano, as a closer match to Kina Lillet than modern Lillet Blanc), and a dash of absinthe.
This is the IBA offiical cocktail which uses Lillet Blanc.