This week we're talking about our most loved and hated cocktail recipes and their mostly made up origins.
Classic Manhattan
2 ounces bourbon or rye
1 ounce sweet vermouth
2 dashes Angostura bitters
1 dash orange bitters
Garnish: brandied cherry
Add all the ingredients into a mixing glass with ice, and stir until well-chilled.
Strain into a chilled coupe.
Garnish with a brandied cherry.
Paul's Manhattan
2 ounces Tincup whiskey
1 ounce dry vermouth
2 dashes cocoa bitters
Garnish: luxardo cherry
Add all the ingredients into a mixing glass with ice, and stir until well-chilled.
Strain into a glass.
Garnish with a luxardo cherry.
Classic Old Fashioned
1/2 teaspoon sugar
3 dashes Angostura bitters
1 teaspoon water
2 ounces bourbon
Garnish: orange peel
Add the sugar, bitters and water into a rocks glass, and stir until sugar is nearly dissolved.
Fill the glass with large ice cubes, add the bourbon, and gently stir to combine.
Express the oil of an orange peel over the glass, then drop in.
Nick's Old Fashioned
1/2 teaspoon sugar
3 coffee and pecan bitters
1 teaspoon espresso
2 ounces Tincup whiskey
Garnish: cherry
Add the sugar, bitters and espresso into a rocks glass, and stir until sugar is nearly dissolved.
Fill the glass with large ice cubes, add the whiskey, and gently stir to combine.
Garnish with cherry
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