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  • Air Mail

    A French 75 gone Caribbean, with rum and honey

  • Alabama Fizz

    The South Side lengthened with soda

  • Amaretto Sour · via Modern balanced

    Bourbon alongside the amaretto, so the almond lands dry rather than sweet

  • Angel Face

    Equal parts gin, apricot and apple brandy - deceptively soft

  • Aviation

    Gin turned pale violet by crème de violette

  • Bay Breeze

    Vodka with cranberry and pineapple, tall and sweet

  • Bee's Knees

    Honey gin sour - A prohibition era classic

  • Between the Sheets

    A Sidecar with rum in it

  • Bijou

    Herbal, sweet and very strong - diamond, emerald and ruby

  • Black Russian

    Vodka and coffee liqueur over ice, and nothing more

  • Blood and Sand

    Named after the film from 1922. Equal parts scotch, cherry, vermouth and orange

  • Bloody Maria

    A Bloody Mary on blanco tequila, with lime in place of the lemon

  • Bloody Mary

    Savory, spiced, and the definitive morning drink

  • Blue Blazer

    A flaming arc of whisky poured between two mugs

  • Boulevardier

    A Negroni that swapped its gin for bourbon

  • Brandy Alexander

    Cognac, cacao and cream, dusted with nutmeg

  • Brown Derby

    A whiskey sour with grapefruit for the lemon, sweetened with honey

  • Caipirinha

    Brazil's national drink - cachaça muddled with lime and sugar

  • 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

  • Daiquiri

    Rum, lime and sugar in their simplest possible balance

  • Delicious Sour

    An applejack sour gone peachy, foamed with egg and lengthened with soda

  • Dirty Martini

    A Martini made savory with a splash of olive brine

  • Dry Martini

    Gin and vermouth, stirred cold and served with an olive

  • Espresso Martini

    Vodka and coffee - made to wake you up

  • French 75

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

  • Frozen Margarita

    A margarita blended to a slush, sweeter to carry the cold

  • Gibson

    A Dry Martini garnished with a pickled onion

  • Gimlet

    Gin stirred with lime cordial, as the Navy drank it

  • Gin Basil Smash

    Gin smashed with basil until it turns grass green

  • Gin Flip

    A whole egg shaken into gin until it turns to silk

  • Gin Sour

    Gin, lemon and sugar - the sour at its plainest

  • Gold Rush

    A whiskey sour with honey syrup where the sugar should be

  • Greyhound

    Two parts grapefruit to one of spirit, tart and long

  • Hanky Panky

    A sweet martini with one bitter drop of Fernet

  • Honeysuckle

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

  • Horse's Neck

    Cognac and ginger ale under a long spiral of lemon peel, the official pour

  • Irish Coffee

    Hot sweetened coffee and whiskey under a float of cold cream

  • John Collins

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

  • Last Word

    Four equal parts that should not work, and do

  • 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

  • Mai Tai

    Trader Vic's tiki classic

  • Margarita

    Tequila, lime and orange liqueur, with salt on the rim

  • Martinez

    The Martini's sweeter ancestor, with a drop of maraschino

  • Mojito

    Classic with Cuban origins - Rum, lime and mint over crushed ice, long and cold

  • Moscow Mule

    Vodka, lime and spicy ginger beer, long and cold in a copper mug

  • Negroni

    Bitter, stirred and unapologetically strong

  • New York Flip

    A Porto Flip with bourbon in the lead, and a whole egg for body

  • Old Fashioned

    Whiskey, sugar and bitters - Near perfection

  • Paper Plane

    Four equal parts of bourbon, lemon and two bitter liqueurs

  • Piña Colada

    Rum, coconut and pineapple - Puerto Rico's national drink

  • Pisco Sour

    Earthy, tart and sweet Peruvian (or Chilean?) sours

  • Planter's Punch

    Jamaican rum, lime and cane sugar

  • Porto Flip

    Rich, dark and barely sweet - Jerry Thomas called it a Coffee Cocktail

  • Queen's Park Swizzle

    Rum swizzled with mint under a dark layer of bitters

  • Ramos Gin Fizz

    A well shaken cloud of gin and cream

  • Red Snapper

    A Bloody Mary made with gin

  • Rosita

    A tequila Negroni, with the vermouth split between sweet and dry

  • Rusty Nail

    Scotch and Drambuie over ice, no fuzz

  • Sazerac

    Rye in an absinthe-rinsed glass.

  • Screwdriver

    Vodka and orange juice, named for what stirred it

  • Sidecar

    Cognac, orange liqueur and lemon, sugar on the rim

  • Singapore Sling

    Tall, fruity and deceptively strong

  • South Side

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

  • Suffering Bastard

    Cairo's hangover cure - brandy, gin and ginger beer

  • Three Dots and a Dash

    Morse code for V - rum, allspice and honey over crushed ice

  • Tom Collins

    The original hard lemonade, made sweet with Old Tom gin

  • Tommy's Margarita

    A Margarita with agave syrup in place of the orange liqueur

  • Whiskey Sour

    Bourbon, lemon and sugar under a cap of foam

  • White Lady

    A Sidecar made with gin, shaken silky with egg white

  • White Russian

    A Black Russian with cream poured over the back of a spoon

  • Zombie

    Tart and spiced where you expect sweet, with three rums you cannot taste