Cocktail Hacker

Category: Recipes

  • Calvados Cocktail – Bitter but Awesome

    As I mentioned in my intro a couple weeks back (geez, has it really been that long?) any drink with 3/4 oz of bitters sounds intimidating.  I mean, come on.  You’re supposed to use these in dashes.  They’re cocktail spices after all.  As such, I expected this recipe to be like adding a tablespoon of…

  • Calvados Cocktail

    This week I’m going to pull that seemingly forgotten 3/4 full bottle of calvados off my shelf and mix up the inventively named Calvados Cocktail.  Per Dr. Cocktail this drink first appears in the 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book.  Though, for an easier to read recipe I’m going to use the one from Vintage Spirits and…

  • The Boulevardier – Bittersweet Deliciousness

    I expected this drink to basically be a Manhattan with an additional bitter bite from the Campari.  There is certainly truth in that view, but it’s also lacking.  The Boulevardier is delightfully bitter like a Negroni.  And, while the vermouth and bourbon flavors hint toward a Manhattan this is something deeper and, in a strange…

  • The Boulevardier

    Named after The Paris Boulevardier, a magazine printed in Paris for expats and modeled after The New Yorker, this cocktail is another from the pages of the fantastic Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails.  The Boulevardier is clearly related to the Negroni, but what’s really interesting is that this recipe was printed 20 years before the…

  • Twelve Mile Limit – The Bartenders Got it Right

    There’s no doubt that the lawmakers got a lot of things wrong during Prohibition.  The bartenders, on the other hand, were right.  The Twelve Mile Limit definitely exemplifies that statement.  The drink is well balanced, extremely flavorful and, overall, tremendously pleasing. In this week’s picture I decided to share a bit of my insanity in…