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When one gets a new toy for Christmas, one smokes an old fashioned.

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A barrel-aged gin Martinez. The likely predecessor to the ever-present martini but sweeter and more complex.

45ml Old-Tom Style Gin

45ml Sweet Vermouth

2-3 dashes Angostura Bitters

Barspoon Maraschino

Stir over ice and strain into chilled coupe. Garnish with an orange pull (and some cherries if you're like me and just want an excuse to eat those cherries)

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The venerable Sazerac. A fancied up Old Fashioned, but a drink that transcends into something entirely its own thing

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Sometimes you want an Old Fashioned with a bit more going on... So we have the smokey Old Fashioned.

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Latest new toy, my kind of emergency bugout bag

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A Basil-Raspberry Cognac Smash. Herbal, fruity and wonderfully refreshing.

75ml VSOP Cognac (don't use VS in spirit forward cocktails)

20ml Raspberry Simple Syrup

20ml Fresh Lemon Juice

6 Basil Leaves

8 Raspberries

Muddle Basil, Raspberries, Lemon Juice and Raspberry syrup in glass. Add Cognac and ice. Garnish with more raspberries

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The Martini. The terribly abused, misunderstood Martini.

I don't know where the weird flex regarding "super dry" came from, but stop it. It's a cocktail, make a cocktail. You want olive soaked gin, go drink olive soaked gin.

60ml London Dry Gin

15ml Dry Vermouth

2 dashes Orange Bitters

Chill coupe with ice water. Add ingredients to a mixing glass over ice. Stir for at least 15 seconds (it should be cold). Strain into chilled coupe, squeeze lemon twist over top and garnish.

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A Smokey-Spicy Cantaloupe Margarita

Fresh Cantaloupe

20ml Fresh Lime Juice

15ml Chipotle Pepper Infused Simple Syrup

45ml Resposado Tequila

15ml Gran Marnier

Muddle cantaloupe, lime juice and syrup in shaker. Add tequila, gran marnier and ice. Shake and strain into ancho chile rimmed glass.

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The modified Boulavardier without a name. Still spicy and bitter but now with some brightness to make it work on a sunny June day.

45ml Rye Whiskey

45ml Campari

30ml Sweet Vermouth

25ml Honey Syrup

2 barspoons Luxardo Maraschino

Stir all over ice and strain into a highball, top with 30ml seltzer.

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A new journal dedicated to testing my new cocktails

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The Funky Sour

30ml Appleton 12 year

25ml Smith & Cross overproof

25ml fresh squeezed lime juice

10ml lime syrup

Egg white

Dry shake, then shake over ice and double strain into a sour glass (or a Nick & Nora glass when you realize you don't actually own sour glasses). Top with a couple dashes of Angostura bitters.

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A custom creation without a name. Very spirit forward but with a bitter backnote and an ethereal fruity sweetness.

60ml London dry gin

25ml Campari

15ml ginger syrup

15ml strawberry syrup

Shake over ice and strain into a Nick & Nora

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The Ginger Rogers. Something in between a Mojito and a Tom Collins

Fresh mint leaves

60ml London dry gin

25ml fresh squeezed lemon juice

30ml ginger syrup

50ml seltzer

Muddle mint in glass, pour the rest over ice and stir

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A Between the Sheets tonight.

1oz Cuban rum

1oz Cognac

1oz Gran Marnier

3/4oz Fresh squeezed lemon juice

Shake with ice and strain

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Still needs some tweaking, but my Espresso Martini is getting there.

2.5oz vodka

1.75oz cold fresh made espresso

.5oz demera syrup

.25oz fresh lemon juice

.25oz cream

1 egg white

Dry shake, shake over ice and strain into a martini glass.

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The Brass Rail, a funky take on a traditional sour

1.75oz aged funky rum

.5oz Benedictine

.5oz fresh squeezed lemon juice

.5oz homemade lemon sugar syrup

One medium egg white

Two dashes orange bitters

Dry shake, shake over ice, strain and drink.

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The always refreshing Dark 'n' Stormy