Atlantic Coast Cocktail
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Atlantic Coast Cocktail30 ml (1 oz) Cognac 30 ml (1 oz) Ginger Wine 1 dash Absinthe 1 dash The Bitter Truth – Orange Bitters Stir in mixing glass with ice & strain into a cocktail glass. |

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Atlantic Coast Cocktail30 ml (1 oz) Cognac 30 ml (1 oz) Ginger Wine 1 dash Absinthe 1 dash The Bitter Truth – Orange Bitters Stir in mixing glass with ice & strain into a cocktail glass. |
Stir with ice and strain in to an old-fashioned glass. Garnish with a lemon zest twist.
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Mint Julep50 ml (2 oz) Bourbon, Brandy or Aged Rum 20 ml (3/4 oz) The Bitter Truth – Apricot Liqueur 2 dashes The Bitter Truth – Lemon Bitters 5 ml (1/6 oz) Sugar Syrup Mint Leaves Muddle mint with bourbon, brandy or rum in tumbler. Take out mint leaves. Add apricot liqueur, bitters and crushed ice and stir. Garnish with mint sprig. |
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Old Fashioned Cocktail50 ml (2 oz) Whisk(e)y, Brandy, Aged Rum or Añejo Tequila 10 ml (1/3 oz) Sugar Syrup (or 1 Sugar Cube) 2 dashes The Bitter Truth – Bitters Orange Zest Pour all ingredients in a tumbler & stir till it has the right dilution. |
The Old Fashioned Cocktail is simple yet multidimensional. Its few ingredients combine to create what some consider the perfect cocktail. You can make old fashioned cocktails with any spirit; rum and tequila both make a wonderful old fashioned.
The Cubed Old Fashioned could just take you to the fourth dimension! See how Jamie Boudreau explains how to make this yummy drink on SMALLCREEN NETWORK using multiple types of bitters…Cheers to Trinidad.
A play on the Old Fashioned by Brian Miller at Death and Company, 2007. It’s one of those drinks that evolves as the ice slowly melts into the cocktail.
1/4 oz Demerara Sugar Syrup
1/2 oz Rittenhouse Bonded Rye (100 Proof)
1/2 oz Buffalo Trace Bourbon
1/2 oz Cognac
1/2 oz Calvados
2 Dashes Angostura Bitters
1 Dash Xocolatl Mole Bitters
Garnish:
Orange Twist (wide)
Lemon Twist (wide)
Stir all the ingredients aside from the twists in an ice filled shaker glass. Strain into a double old fashioned glass over ice. Add orange and lemon twists.
Once more the Savoy Cocktail Book is a great source for great drinks. The Washington Cocktail is typical for those new style cocktails created in the late 1800`s, at times when vermouth was widly used in drinks like the manhattan and the martini.
The Cocktail Spirit with Robert Hess – Washington Cocktail from Small Screen on Vimeo.
Harry Craddock gives a recipe for the Young Man Cocktail in the famed Savoy Cocktail book which is a twist on a Manhattan Cocktail made with cognac and orange curacao.
At Small Screen Network in ” The Cocktail Spirit with Robert Hess“, Robert explains how to mix this delicious drink in a proper way while offering at the same time insights in history. Enjoy!
Young Man – The Cocktail Spirit with Robert Hess from Small Screen Network on Vimeo.