Category: Cocktails

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Our second cocktail is the Absinthe Spider Highball, a refreshing absinthe and ginger highball cocktail.

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Our first cocktail is the Brotherhood, which was created by Charles Joly, co-founder of Crafthouse Cocktails, a bottled cocktail company, which uses Irish and French spirits; the original recipe uses Michael Collins blended Irish whiskey.

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Our second cocktail is the St. George’s Triumph. A cocktail for St George’s Day in 2024 of our own creation

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Our first cocktail is the St. George & Dragon.A cocktail of unknown origin, but perfect for St George’s Day.

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Our third and final cocktail is the Corpse Reviver No. 1. This is Frank Caiafa’s recipe (long-term NYC bartender, beverage director and author of The Waldorf Astoria Bar Book) where he adds a dash of orange bitters to the established Savoy recipe.

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