Category: Cocktails

Our first cocktail is the Green Negroni, which actually has no connection to Ireland or St Patrick’s day, other than being bright green.

A bright green Negroni variant, which is has a surprisingly complex and bittesweet flavour.

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Our third and final cocktail is the Widow Maker. A surprising pleasant Martini variant which uses Jagermeister, Kahlua and grenadine.

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Our second cocktail is the Tenner Martini. A Martini variant of unknown origin which adds grapefruit bitters.

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Our first cocktail is the Marguerite (Daly), a gin-based forerunner to the Dry Martini, which first appeared in Harry Johnson’s 1900 New and Improved Bartenders’ Manual, but we’ve opted for the Tim Daly version from his 1903 Bartenders Encyclopedia which differs only through the absence of anisette (a dry anise flavoured liqueur).

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Our third and final cocktail is the Jägermeister Manhattan. A herbal variant of the Manhattan using Jägermeister, which again proves it’s so much more than a shooter or bomb.

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Our second cocktail is the Turf Club (Winter’s). George Winter’s Turf Club recipe from his 1884 How To Mix Drinks–Bar-Keeper’s Handbook; the original recipe calls for Peruvian Bitters, but we’ve used the more commonly available Angostura Aromatic Bitters.

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Our first cocktail is the Yellow Negroni, created by Simon Difford in 2017 at the Cabinet Room, London, England, the Yellow Negroni riffs on the Negroni with three of the iconic yellow liqueurs; Yellow Chartreuse, gentian and limoncello.

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Our third and final cocktail is the Hearst Martini. Believed to have been created at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria and to have been a favourite of journalists who worked for William Randolph Hearst, the US newspaper magnate. It is also known by the nickname The Disgruntled Journalist.

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Our second cocktail is the The Journalist. Published in Harry Craddock’s 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.

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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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