Author: Tom

  2 oz. rum 1/2 ounces Cointreau 1/2 ounces dry vermouth 2 dashes Angostura bitters Stir with ice. Strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a twist of orange peel. I was in the mood for rum last night. I had run out of light rum and while taking inventory of the bar shelf in […]

    1 1/2 oz. Gin 1/2 oz. Sweet Vermouth 1 dash bitters This week, I mixed a sweet martini to balance the dry martini from my earlier post. The dry martini was a double, I kept this to the ratios dictated by the recipe. I think the use of bitters really made both the […]

    1/2 oz. Lime Juice 1/2 tsp. Superfine Sugar or Simple Syrup 2 oz. Light Rum Shake with ice and strain into chilled cocktail glass. The lime juice dominated this cocktail. The mellowness of the rum came through as an aftertaste with a slight sweetness from the simple syrup.

Dark N Stormy 2 oz. Gosling’s Black Seal Black Rum 4 oz. Ginger Beer Build this drink in an Old Fashioned glass over ice. OK, so this cocktail probably doesn’t look much different from the Midnight Express from last week. But, looks can be deceiving. I must say that I am really enjoying the Black […]

Midnight Express   1 1/2 oz. Dark Rum 1/2 oz. Triple Sec 3/4 oz. Lime Juice 1 Splash simple syrup 1 Splash Lemon juice Shake with ice and strain into an ice-filled old-fashioned glass. I doubled the above recipe because I only have double old-fashioned glasses. The Midnight Express is a very tasty drink. I […]

  The Brandy Crusta was invented in 1852 in New Orleans. I have seen recipes that call for triple sec, curacao and cointreau.   1 1/2 oz. Brandy 3/4 oz. Cointreau 3/4 oz. lemon juice Dash of Maraschino Liqueuer Dash of Angustura Bitters     Add indredients into an ice filles mixing tin and shake. […]

  The Highland Cocktail   1 1/2 oz Scotch 1 1/2 oz Sweet Vermouth 1 dash of Orange Bitters Stir in an ice filled cocktail shaker and pour into a chilled cocktail glass. The Highland Cocktail gives you a hint of sweetness up front from the Sweet Vermouth and then the combination of the Orange […]

The Silent Third   1 oz. Triple Sec 2 oz. Scotch 1 oz. Lemon Juice Shake with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. I first found this recipe in the Mr. Boston Platinum Edition. Afterwards, I was told that the drink was created by Garth Glendenning in the early thirties. His Company W. […]

  To me, a cocktail glass is a thing of beauty. The simpler the design, the better. For my personal use, I chose Luigi Bormioli’s Michelangelo series.  It is a medium sized glass. The saucer holds 7.5 ounces (thanks to surface tension) but, I would never pour more than 5.5 ounces. Drinks just look nicer […]