The Cocktails Must Flow

Our second cocktail is the R.A.C. Special. The house cocktail at the Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall, London, which featured in Harry Craddock’s 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.

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Our first cocktail is the Pomegranate Negroni. A red and bittersweet rather than fruity pomegranate Negroni variant.

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Our third cocktail is the Oriental. A true classic cocktail, dating back to Count Benvenito Martini’s 1916 Cocktail Ology book.

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Our second cocktail is the The Ridgwell. A Manhattan[/link] variant, created in 2018 at the FAM Bar, London, England, in memory of Mark Ridgwell, the author of Spirits Distilled.

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Our first cocktail is the Slow Negroni. A Negroni variant which adds sloe gin as a fourth ingredient.

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Our third cocktail is the Green Puritan. A variant of the Puritan which switches out the Yellow Chartreuse for green.

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Our second cocktail is the Puritan. A classic cocktail which first appeared in Fredrick L. Knowles’ 1900 The Cocktail Book: A Sideboard Manual for Gentlemen.

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Our first cocktail is the Blue Negroni.

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Our third cocktail is the Diamondback Lounge. The signature cocktail of the Diamondback Lounge bar of the Lord Baltimore Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. The hotel opened in 1928 and is still open, but the lounge is long gone. The cocktail featured in Ted Saucier’s 1951 book Bottoms Up.

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Our second cocktail is the Widow’s Kiss. A classic cocktail created in the 1890s by George J. Kappeler at New York City’s Holland House Hotel; it featured in his 1895 book Modern American Drinks before coming to wider prominence in the 1900 edition of Harry Johnson’s famous Bartenders Manual.

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