Learn how to make the perfect sky-blue Aviation cocktail at home. A pre-Prohibition classic featuring gin, lemon, maraschino liqueur and violette. 🍸✈️
Tag: Cocktail
Dirty Road Martini Cocktail
Exploring Dolly Parton’s Dirt Road Martini from her Good Lookin’ Cookin’ cookbook, a unique blend of vodka, chilled unsweetened tea and spicy giardiniera brine that takes a sip or two to truly appreciate. 🍸🤠
Fitty Fitty (50/50) Martini Cocktail
Overcoming a long-standing bias against vermouth with the 50/50 Martini, an equal-parts classic that balances London dry gin, cold-stored dry vermouth and orange bitters into a smooth, lower-proof aperitif. 🍸✨
Kentucky Flyer Cocktail
A modern twist on the classic Aviation, the Kentucky Flyer pairs bold Willett Family Estate Rye with Luxardo Maraschino and fresh lemon juice for a perfectly balanced citrus-whiskey cocktail. 🍒🍋✨
Poet’s Dream Cocktail
A crisp, silky variation on a classic early 20th-century cocktail. Swapping gin for clean vodka allows bright dry vermouth and the rich, honeyed herbal spice of Bénédictine to take center stage, finished with an aromatic twist of lemon oil. 🍸✨
The Bourbon Stinger Cocktail
A casual conversation about family traditions revealed a hilarious piece of family trivia: while deployed in the Army, my Dad’s go-to bar order was a straight glass of crème de menthe. To honor his military days, I decided to bring that vintage mint profile onto my own bar by mixing up a classic 1890s Stinger with a serious bourbon upgrade. Here is how to make a Bourbon Stinger (and the hilarious color mistake to avoid).
The Kentucky Colonel Cocktail
Before sugary mixers dominated the bar, early 20th-century bartenders relied on herbed liqueurs to build complex drinks. Enter the Kentucky Colonel. A brilliant, spirit-forward cousin to the Old Fashioned, this classic cocktail swaps standard sugar for French Bénédictine to give high-proof bourbon a rich, herbal upgrade. Here’s how to stir up a legendary 1914 classic right at home.🥃✨
The Turf Club Cocktail
Before the Martini became a mid-century icon, late 19th-century New York bartenders were mixing drinks with serious teeth. Enter the Turf Club. Unapologetically spirit-forward and complex, this classic gin cocktail gets a historic upgrade on our bar with a heavy dash of New Orleans-born Herbsaint. Here’s how to mix up a legendary, high-proof classic with an intriguing edge. 🍸🌿🔥
Blackberry Old Fashioned
A bold, summer-ready riff on a classic that replaces standard simple syrup with a homemade, velvet-textured blackberry bourbon gastrique. The gentle acidity of unseasoned rice wine vinegar balances the deep, jammy sweetness of the dark berries, allowing the rich vanilla and charred oak notes of a high-proof bourbon to take center stage for a perfectly unified, sophisticated. 🥃🍇
The Napoleon Cocktail
A bourbon-forward twist on the classic Napoleon cocktail, this version blends bright lemon, fresh raspberries and a touch of Campari for balance. Smooth, vibrant and finished with a silky foam, it’s a modern classic that proves bourbon can shine in elegant, citrus-driven cocktails.