The Attention
(See also. Thanks to Plymouth Gin, Apothecary, and Nicholas Jarrett for introducing me to this wonderful waypoint between the Martini and the Aviation.)

2½ oz Plymouth Gin
½ oz Crème de Violette (Rothman & Winter)
½ Noilly Prat dry vermouth
½ barspoon Philly Distilling Vieux Carré
2 dashes Fee’s orange bitters

Stir on ice, strain into a cocktail glass, garnish with either a lemon or orange twist (to taste).

The Chaplin
(For introduction to which, thanks Rodolphe.)

¾ oz Eagle Rare bourbon
¾ oz Williams & Humbert Dry Sack sherry
¾ oz Ramazzotti Amaro
⅛ oz Cointreau
2 dashes orange bitters

Stir on ice, strain into a cocktail glass, garnish with a (flamed, in this case) orange twist.

La Louisiane
(See also.)

¾ oz Old Overholt Rye
¾ oz Punt e Mes rosso vermouth
¾ oz Benedictine
1 barspoon Pernod
3 dashes Peychaud’s bitters

Stir on ice, strain into a cocktail glass, garnish with a (again flamed: I’m using it up and practicing) orange twist.

Blood & Sand
1½ oz Ardbeg 10 Scotch
¾ oz Cherry Heering
½ oz Cinzano rosso vermouth
½ oz fresh orange juice

Shake all ingredients on ice, strain into a cocktail glass. What the hell, flame an orange peel on it.

Dark & Stormy
2 oz Gosling’s Black Seal dark rum
~3 oz home-made ginger “beer” (no fermentation, just CO² charging)

Build in a Collins glass over ice, top with ginger beer.

Moscow Mule
(You may notice something of a pattern here. I was on the phone with my parents.)

2 oz Svedka vodka (Yeah, really. I’m trying to kill it.)
~3 oz ginger beer (as above)

Build in a Collins glass over ice, top with ginger beer.

an interlude
A glass of wine with dinner. It was opened during a cocktail party I threw a couple of days ago, so it needs to be used up.

Trinidad Sour
1 oz Angostura Bitters
1 oz Fiume Sciroppa di Orzata (If you’ve only had Fee’s Orgeat before, you’re missing out)
1 oz fresh lemon juice
½ oz Rittenhouse 100

Shake on ice, strain into a cocktail glass.

Lagavulin 16 year
1 shot. Neat.