Posts Tagged 'Stirred'

Atlantic Coast Cocktail

30 ml Cognac
30 ml Ginger Wine
1 dash Absinthe
1 dash The Bitter Truth – Orange Bitters

Stir in mixing glass with ice & strain into a cocktail glass.

This cocktail was created by Ryhs Davis of Harvey Nichols, Bristol for The Bitter Truth Cocktail Competition in Bristol, UK.

Barcelo Blazer

• 50 ml Ron Barcelo Gran Anejo
• 25 ml Licor 43
• 4 dashes Chocolate Bitters

Glass: Brandy Balloon
Serve: Stir & Flame
Garnish: Cinnamon Stick

Borden Chase

• 1 ¾ oz Scotch
• ¾ oz Carpano Antica
• 1/8 oz absinthe
• 2 dashes The Bitter Truth Orange Bitters

Stir with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

(circa 1935)

via Balvenie 17yr Madeira Cask & Drinking at Home « SpiritsAndCocktails.com.

Brandy Cocktail

(adapted by Stephan Berg, mixed by Brian Miller)

2 oz. brandy

1/4 oz. simple syrup

1/8 oz. orange curaçao

2 dashes The Bitter Truth Jerry Thomas bitters

Stir in ice for 30 seconds. Strain into a chilled coupe. Garnish with a lemon twist.

via “Buzzings” from Cocktail Buzz: Bitters Is Better: The Bitter Truth Mingles with Bols Genever at Clover Club.

Jason Littrell from Death & Co. in NYC was challenged by Liquor.com to create a couple of cocktails to honor the athletes of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games. This is one of his creations:

Citius, Altius, Fortius

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 oz Bluecoat Gin (US)
• .5 oz Noilly Prat Dry Vermouth (France)
• .5 oz Martini & Rossi Sweet Vermouth (Italy)
• 2 Dashes The Bitter Truth Orange Bitters (Germany)
• Teaspoon Kubler Absinthe (Switzerland)
• Teaspoon Crown Royal Whisky (Canada)
• Teaspoon simple syrup (1 part sugar, 1 part water)

Garnish: Orange wedge

Glass: Cocktail

PREPARATION:

Add the ingredients to a mixing glass filled with ice and stir. Serve the drink in a cocktail glass with an orange wedge.

via Gold Medal Cocktails – Featured Articles — Liquor.com.

Cocoa Old Fashioned

Created by Joy Richard of the Franklin Cafe in Boston.

Ingredients:

• 2.5 oz Taza Cocoa Nib Infused Old Overholt Rye Whiskey *
• .5 oz Demerara syrup
• 1 Brandied cherry
• 1 Orange slice
• 3 dashes of Chocolate Bitters

* Joy infuses the rye whiskey with Taza Cocoa Nibs for three days.

Preparation:

In an old fashioned glass muddle together 1 half wheel of orange, 1 brandied cherry, .5 oz demerara syrup, and 3 dashes Chocolate bitters.

Fill with ice, add 2.5 oz Taza Cocoa Nib infused Old Overholt, lightly stir and serve.

via Cocoa Old-Fashioned Cocktail Recipe – Mixed Drink Recipe for a Cocoa Old Fashioned by Joy Richard.

Dry Martini Cocktail

50 ml Gin
10 ml Dry Vermouth
2 dashes The Bitter Truth – Orange Bitters

Stir in mixing glass with ice & strain into a cocktail glass.

Horse’s Neck

50 ml Bourbon Whiskey
2 dashes The Bitter Truth – Old Time Aromatic Bitters
Ginger Ale or Ginger Beer
Lemon Twist

Build in a longdrink glass on ice & stir.

• 2 oz Cognac
• 2-3 bar-spoons sugar syrup
• 2 dashes The Bitter Truth Creole bitters
• 2 dashes absinthe

Stir with ice and strain in to an old-fashioned glass. Garnish with a lemon zest twist.

From Brian Miller at NYC’s Death & Company:

Jane Russell

• 1 1/2 oz Russell’s Reserve Rye
• 1/2 oz Rittenhouse Rye (bonded)
• 1/4 oz Carpano Antica Sweet Vermouth
• 1/4 oz Grand Marnier
• 1/4 oz Benedictine
• 1 dash Chocolate Bitters

Stir & strain into a coupe glass and garnish with an orange twist.