The Last Word The Last Word is a Prohibition era cocktail originally created at the Detroit Athletic Club. Equal parts Gin, Green Chartreuse, Maraschino Liqueur and lime juice create a well balanced cocktail with bold citrus and herbal flavors. Ingredients: 3/4 oz Gin 3/4 oz Green Chartreuse 3/4 oz Maraschino…
This beautiful Martini combines the herbal qualities of Gin and Chartreuse. We used Gin Mare, which has a balanced juniper note and is distilled from olives, among other botanicals, all of which play perfectly with Doc Elliott’s Olive Bitters.
I offer up this drink in honor of National Vodka Day, which is also National Taco Day, and in 2014, falls on Saturday, October 4. This just happens to coincide with our daughter’s wedding day. Her Groom has suggested the name and I think it covers all of the bases.…
This drink plays on the faint cucumber note in Hendrick’s and doubles down with the herbal Chartreuse. Allowing the ice cubes to muddle the cucumber in the shaker, produces just the right flavor intensity. Unless, of course, you want your cocktail to taste like a salad!
2 oz. PAMA Pomegranate Liqueur 1 oz. vodka ¼ oz. Grand Marnier St Germain Elderflower Foam Chill cocktail glass with ice and water Stir all ingredients, except foam, with ice Add St. Germaine Elderflower Foam to chilled glass Strain drink through foam into glass Repair foam and flame drink with Misto…
1 ½ oz. premium vodka ¼ oz. Cointreau ⅛ oz. Chartreuse Chill a cocktail glass with ice and water Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass and stir with ice Strain into chilled glass over fresh ice Garnish with an orange twist
I found the recipe on a scrap of paper along with a bunch of other little “notes to self” hiding in my desk a few years ago. There was no reference on it, so I have no idea where it came from. Anyway, it’s a tequila based cocktail with the…
Another classic, pre-prohibition cocktail. I have no idea what it has to do with Alaska! As Paul Clarke points out: “The Savoy Cocktail Book, where this drink appeared in 1930, is less than helpful in illuminating the drink’s origins: ‘So far as can be ascertained this delectable potion is NOT…
This cocktail plays on the herbal notes of the Hendrick’s. Add the citrus and it makes for an excellent libation. 1 ½ oz. Hendrick’s Gin ¾ oz. Green Chartreuse ¾ oz. Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur 1 oz. lemon sour or: 2/3 oz. lemon juice and 1/3 oz. simple syrup (1/3 oz…
Hendrick’s Gin has more of an herbal flavor and less on the juniper. There is a hint of cucumber. It’s one of those subtle nuances that I would never have picked up on if not told it was there. But this “hint of cucumber” has brought forth a plethora of…