The Cocktails Must Flow

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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Our first cocktail is the Crimson King. A Negroni variant, of an unknown creator. It is thought to be named after the antagonist in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series.

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Our third cocktail is the Alice Mine. A vintage cocktail of unknown origin.

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Our second cocktail is the Charlie Chaplin. Named in honour of the silent movie star, the Charlie Chaplin is a classic tangy sloe gin cocktail.

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Our first cocktail is the Apricot Negroni, which was created by Raphaelle Chaize, Giffard beverage expert.

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Our third cocktail is the Classic Sweet Martini. When we posted the sweet martini originally, we used a opdern version which is a lot heavier on the gin. Today’s closing cocktail is the traditional recipe from the 1880s. It featured in Harry Johnson’s 1888 New and Improved Bartender’s Manual[/i and is a fifty-fifty of Old Tom Gin and sweet vermouth with two dashes of orange bitters.

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