The Pithy Bar

Build

Combined in the glass it is served from, usually over ice, with no separate mixing vessel. The simplest method and the gentlest, so it is the one that keeps carbonation alive - which is why highballs, spritzes and most long drinks are built. A gentle stir to bring it together at the end does not make it a stirred drink.

Dilution
~20%

Mixed this way

  • Alabama Slammer

    Sloe gin, Southern Comfort and amaretto over orange juice

  • Americano

    A Milano Torino stretched long with soda, bitter and easy

  • Aperol Spritz

    Italy's well known apéritif - bitter orange, prosecco and soda

  • Bay Breeze

    Vodka with cranberry and pineapple, tall and sweet

  • Bellini

    Prosecco and peach. Named after a painting by Venetian artist Giovanni Bellini.

  • Black Russian

    Vodka and coffee liqueur over ice, and nothing more

  • Caipirinha

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

  • Campari Spritz

    The spritz at its most bitter - Campari, not Aperol

  • Garibaldi

    Campari and orange juice, and nothing else

  • Gin Flip · via Hot

    Gin, sugar and a whole egg in hot water

  • Greyhound

    Two parts grapefruit to one of spirit, tart and long

  • 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

  • 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

  • Milano Torino

    Campari from Milan, vermouth from Turin - the Negroni's ancestor

  • 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 Sbagliato

    A Negroni gone fizzy - prosecco where the gin should be

  • Planter's Punch

    Jamaican rum, lime and cane sugar

  • Rosita · via Mr. Boston 1974

    The first printed version: equal tequila and Campari, and no bitters

  • Rusty Nail

    Scotch and Drambuie over ice, no fuzz

  • Screwdriver

    Vodka and orange juice, named for what stirred it

  • Tom Collins

    The original hard lemonade, made sweet with Old Tom gin

  • White Russian

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