Lesson Two: Recipes

It’s not a proper spirits, cocktail and mixology website if it doesn’t have recipes, so now it’s recipe time. Several dozen of them, in a mix of carefully-curated versions of the classics, new creations in the classic style (or as close as we can get to it) and forgotten drinks from the past that should’ve become classics but somehow didn’t. Each recipe has been tested more than once (many of them a lot more), and assigned to its prideful place.

• Chapter One: Smashes and the Magic of Mint, aka the Brandy Smash
• Chapter Two: Song of the Citrus, aka The Daiquiri
• Chapter Three: Tiny Bubbles, aka The Gin Fizz
• Chapter Four: Internal Air-Conditioning, aka The John Collins
• Chapter Five: Punch In The Glass, aka The Knickerbocker
• Chapter Six: Whiskey Up, aka The Manhattan
• Chapter Seven: Gin Up, aka The Martini
• Chapter Eight: Old, Short and (Mostly) on the Rocks, aka The Old-Fashioned
• Chapter Nine: Sour But Suave, aka The Sidecar
• Chapter Ten: The Purr of Liqueur, aka The Stinger
• Chapter Eleven: Hot Hot Hot, aka The Whisky Toddy
• Chapter Twelve: Serving the People, aka A Bowl of Punch