The Pithy Bar

Lemon juice

Diet
Taste

Used in

  • Alabama Fizz

    The South Side lengthened with soda

  • Amaretto Sour

    A bitter-almond sour, sweet and sour and soft

  • Aviation

    Gin turned pale violet by crème de violette

  • Bee's Knees

    Honey gin sour - A prohibition era classic

  • Between the Sheets

    A Sidecar with rum in it

  • Bloody Mary

    Savory, spiced, and the definitive morning drink

  • Campari Sour

    Campari's bitterness rounded off with citrus and foam

  • Chestnut Cup

    Bitter, almond-sweet and long over crushed ice

  • Clover Club

    Pre-Prohibition gin sour, pink with raspberry and foam

  • Corpse Reviver No. 2

    A Sidecar on gin, lengthened with Lillet and rinsed with absinthe

  • French 75

    A gin sour lengthened with champagne. Like a fancy Tom Collins.

  • Gin Basil Smash

    Gin smashed with basil until it turns grass green

  • Gin Sour

    Gin, lemon and sugar - the sour at its plainest

  • Gold Rush

    A whiskey sour with honey syrup where the sugar should be

  • Honeysuckle

    A daiquiri with honey in place of sugar, and lemon for the lime

  • John Collins

    The Tom Collins made dry, with London gin instead of Old Tom

  • Long Island Iced Tea

    Five spirits and a splash of cola, tasting of neither

  • Lynchburg Lemonade

    Tennessee whiskey, triple sec and lemon, topped with fizz

  • Paper Plane

    Four equal parts of bourbon, lemon and two bitter liqueurs

  • Ramos Gin Fizz

    A well shaken cloud of gin and cream

  • Red Snapper

    A Bloody Mary made with gin

  • Sidecar

    Cognac, orange liqueur and lemon, sugar on the rim

  • South Side

    A gin sour with mint - the mojito's uptown cousin

  • Tom Collins

    The original hard lemonade, made sweet with Old Tom gin

  • Virgin Mary

    The Bloody Mary without the vodka, and seasoned just as hard

  • Whiskey Sour

    Bourbon, lemon and sugar under a cap of foam

  • White Lady

    A Sidecar made with gin, shaken silky with egg white