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Drink of the Week: The Aviation (à la Craddock)
The Aviation is one classic cocktail with a schizoid past. Everyone seems to agree now that the first known version of the drink appeared in 1911 in a recipe book written by New York bartender Hugo...
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Drink of the Week: The Corpse Reviver #2
What we have here, my friends, is a failure to be creative. In my ongoing quest to deplete my liquor supplies in advance of an impending move, while also trying to keep my cocktails simple on account...
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Drink of the Week: The Clover Club (The Hess/Craddock Take, Modified)
Sometimes the difference between one drink and another is miniscule. Take a Martini and put a cocktail onion in it instead of an olive or a lemon twist and it is miraculously transformed into a...
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Drink of the Week: The Clover Club (The Rasp-Wiki Take)
If you have a deep aversion to déjà vu, I advise you to take a break from today’s and, yes, next week’s posts. (I haven’t decided yet about the week after that!) You see, I’ve always been fascinated...
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Drink of the Week: The Fernet Branca Cocktail
I think it’s fair to say that probably no one really likes martinis as beginning drinkers. Vodka martinis might go down a bit easier than gin, but to neophytes, martinis taste pretty much like...
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Drink of the Week: The Improved Poppy Cocktail
Today’s drink is very possibly the most obscure cocktail yet that we’ve explored from Harry Craddock’s post-prohibition classic, “The Savoy Cocktail Book,” and I sense that most of the people who care...
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Drink of the Week: The Leap Year Cocktail
As I’ve been busily harvesting Harry Craddock’s “The Savoy Cocktail Book” for cocktails, I’ve managed to ignore a number of holidays and special events, including Valentine’s Day, the Super Bowl and, I...
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