The Cocktails Must Flow

3rd #cocktail of #FridayNightCocktails on 29th November: Four Score

Our third cocktail is the Four Score. Created by Joe Gilmore for Sir Winston Churchill’s eightieth birthday in 1955.

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Our second cocktail is the Lorraine. Created by Joe Gilmore to mark President Charles de Gaulle’s state visit to Britain after the Second World War.

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Our first cocktail is the Grand Negroni. A rich orange Negroni variant which switches Grand Marnier for the usual sweet vermouth.

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Our first cocktail is the History & Nobility. A cocktail which benefits from light dashes of bitters; created by Daniel Bovey at Be At One, Bristol, in 2015. This recipe is Simon Difford’s adaptation.

Our second cocktail is the Golden Lillet Martini. Created by John Gertsen and Misty Kalkofen at the The Edison bar, Los Angeles, during a guest bartending stint.

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Our first cocktail is the Hazelnut Russian. A festive variant of the White Russian, created by the Crafting Gin Club.

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Our third cocktail is the Minnie the Moocher. Pretty much a variant of the , it appeared in Charlie Conolly’s The World Famous Cotton Club: 1939 Book of Mixed Drinks. It takes it’s name from the Minnie the Moocher jazz song, first recorded in 1931 by Cab Calloway and his Orchestra.

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Our second cocktail is the Fogerty. A variant by Simon Difford of a cocktail created by Ryan Fitzgerald in 2010 at Beretta in San Francisco, USA.

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Our first cocktail is the Chocolate Hazelnut Martini. A creamy, nutty, chocolate dessert cocktail of unknown origin.

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Our third cocktail is the Merry Widow. The Merry Widow is a classic cocktail which first appeared in Hugo R. Ensslin’s Recipes for Mixed Drinks (2nd Edition) (1917); it takes it’s name from the Broadway production, The Merry Widow which opened in October 1907.

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