PH factor:  8.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Bombay gin o ½ ounce Chambord o 1 ounce fresh lemon juice o ½ ounce Simple Syrup (see: Syrups etc.) Garnish o mint sprig and raspberries Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients except Chambord over ice. 2. Strain into an Old Fashioned glass filled with crushed ice. 3. Float Chambord on top. 4. Garnish with a mint sprig and raspberries. Remarks: In its original form the recipe called for Crème de

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Bombay gin o 1 ounce Blandy's 5-Year-Old Malmsey Madeira o ½ ounce Pierre Farrand Dry Curaçao o 3 drops Bittermens Xocolatl Mole bitters Garnish o orange peel Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a chilled cocktail glass. 3. Express orange peel over the drink and discard. Remarks: Martini purists relax. Have a seat. Try one of these. Not bad, right? Let

PH factor:  8.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Bombay Sapphire gin o 1 ounce Lillet Blanc o 1 ounce Triple Sec o ½ ounce fresh lemon juice o 1 splash Simple Syrup (see: Syrups etc.) o 1 dash Hella Orange bitters Garnish o lemon twist Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients over ice. 2. Serve up in a martini glass. 3. Garnish with lemon twist. Remarks: As is often true, equal amounts of the spirits in a cocktail will make for a tasty drink. It

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Bombay gin o ½ ounce Plymouth Sloe gin o ½ ounce fresh lemon juice o 1 tablespoon cranberry sauce Garnish o lemon twist o whole cranberries Method: 1. Shake vigorously over ice. 2. Strain into a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with lemon twist and cranberries. Remarks: Given you’re most likely to have all the necessaries on or around Thanksgiving Day, this should become a staple of your holiday cel

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Bombay gin o ½ ounce Lillet Blanc o 1 tablespoon Pernod Absinthe Supérieure o ½ ounce Triple Sec o 4 ounces fresh orange juice o 1 dash Hella Orange bitters Garnish o orange slice Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients over ice. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with orange slice. Remarks: : Not a new cocktail. This recipe is in the Savoy Cocktail Book of 1930. . . .

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Bombay Sapphire gin o 1 ounce Galliano liqueur o 1 ounce fresh lime juice o Fever-Tree Premium Ginger Beer Garnish o mint sprig Method: 1. Stir to combine cocktail ingredients except soda in an ice-filled collins glass. 2. Top with ginger beer. 3. Garnish with mint sprig. Remarks: A combination of ingredients that actually benefits from the dilution caused by melting ice. This is not a problem as you a

PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o ¼ ounce Pernod Absinthe Supérieure o 1 ounce Bombay Sapphire gin o 1 ounce Lillet Blanc o 1 ounce Amontillado sherry o ¼ ounce Pierre Farrand Dry Curaçao Garnish o lemon twist Method: 1. Swirl absinthe in chilled Old Fashioned glass and discard the excess. 2. Stir remaining cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 3. Strain mixture into the prepared glass. 4. Serve either up or over a single l

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Bombay gin o ½ ounce Earl Grey Simple Syrup (see: Syrups etc.) o ¾ ounce fresh lemon juice o champagne Garnish o lemon wheel Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients except the wine over ice. 2. Strain into an ice-filled collins glass. 3. Top with champagne. 4. Garnish with a lemon wheel. Remarks: A different sort of champagne cocktail and one that is very tasty. . . .

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 3 ounces Bombay Sapphire gin o 1 ounce green Chartreuse o 1 ounce fresh lime juice o 1 egg white Garnish o lime peel Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients without ice. 2. Add ice and shake again to chill. 3. Fine strain into a martini glass. 4. Garnish with lime peel. Remarks: Formerly the Green Ghost Cocktail. After testing and adjusting it, we renamed it because as her new name implies we found her to be a

PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 fresh mint sprig o 3 slices fresh ginger o 1 ½ ounces Bombay Sapphire gin o ½ ounce St. Germain liqueur o ½ ounce fresh lemon juice o ½ ounce agave nectar o Splash of Fever-Tree Premium Club Soda Garnish o 1 fresh mint sprig Method: 1. Muddle the leaves from a sprig of mint and the ginger in a cocktail shaker. 2. Add ice and remaining cocktail ingredients except the soda and shake. 3. Strain into

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Bombay Sapphire gin o ½ ounce fresh lime juice o ¼ ounce Simple Syrup (see: Syrups etc.) o 3 ounces Lindemans Strawberry lambic Garnish o rosemary sprig Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients except the lambic over ice. 2. Pour into in an ice-filled wine glass. 3. Top with lambic and stir gently. 4. Garnish with a sprig of rosemary. Remarks: The Flemish 75 is loosely based on the gin version of th

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Bombay Gin o ¾ ounce Bénédictine D.O.M. o ¾ ounce yellow Chartreuse o ¾ ounce fresh lemon juice Method: 1. Shake over ice. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. Remarks: Chartreuse and gin provide the strong wind driving this cocktail. While the Bénédictine and citrus make for its smooth sailing. So, a strong but smooth cocktail that would be good any time of day. We'll drink to that. . . .

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Hennessey VS cognac o 1 ounce Bombay gin o 1 ounce Flor de Caña Extra Seco rum o ½ ounce Amontillado sherry o 1 dash Hella Citrus bitters o ½ ounce orgeat syrup o ¾ ounce fresh lemon juice o ¾ ounce fresh orange juice Garnish o orange peel o cherry o pineapple spear o cocktail umbrella Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients except sherry over ice. 2. Serve over ice in a Tiki mug or hurrican

PH factor:  8.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Bombay gin o ½ ounce fresh lime juice o 4 ounces Fever-Tree Premium Ginger Beer Garnish o lime wedge Method: 1. Add gin and lime juice to an ice-filled highball glass and stir. 2. Top with ginger beer. 3. Garnish with a lime wedge. Remarks: Is a Foghorn really necessary? On a “Dark and Stormy” night, definitely. . . .

PH factor:  10 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces birch leaf infused Bombay gin* o ¾ ounce Lillet Blanc o ½ ounce green Chartreuse Garnish o lemon twist Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Express lemon peel over the cocktail and drop in for garnish. Remarks: Not only is the infused gin used in this cocktail delicious there are more uses for these tasty leaves. Tea, anyone? *Combine

PH factor:  8.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Bombay Sapphire gin o ¾ ounce fresh lemon juice o 1 tablespoon Simple Syrup (see: Syrups etc.) o champagne Garnish o lemon twist Method: 1. Stir to combine first three ingredients in a champagne flute. 2. Top with champagne. 3. Stir once gently. 4. Garnish with a lemon twist. Remarks: There are many theories of its origins, and much debate over gin vs. brandy. We do know the recipe was first re

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Bombay gin o ½ ounce Earl Grey Simple Syrup (see: Syrups etc.) o ¾ ounce fresh lemon juice o Fever-Tree Premium Tonic Water Garnish o lemon wheel Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients except tonic over ice. 2. Serve over ice in collins glass. 3. Top with tonic. 4. Garnish with lemon wheel. Remarks: We have a dozen cocktails with tonic water and everything from cognac and Cuarenta Y Tres to Madei

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ½ ounces Bombay gin o 1 ½ ounces Lillet Blanc Garnish o cocktail onions Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a martini glass. 3. Garnish with an odd number of cocktail onions greater than one. Remarks: The Gibson has become a modern rarity and a code word for cocktail know-how. In the restaurants and bars where they are available, they are offered and enjoyed with t

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Bombay Sapphire gin o ½ ounce Rose’s Sweetened Lime Juice Garnish o lime wheel Method: 1. Shake over ice. 2. Strain into a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with lime wheel. Remarks: The gimlet was named after the Royal Navy surgeon Sir Thomas Gimlette, who served from 1879 to 1913. Sir Thomas was looking to combat scurvy. He discovered Rose’s Lime Cordial and ensured it was available on all the many Royal Navy

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Bombay Sapphire gin o ½ ounce fresh lime juice o 3 ounces Fever-Tree Premium Club Soda Garnish o lime wheel Method: 1. Combine gin and lime in an ice-filled collins glass. 2. Top with soda and stir gently. 3. Garnish with lime wheel. Remarks: A "highball" that dates to the early 1900s. The Gin Rickey is a good example of a cocktail with only one spirit but it's one that plays well with others. .

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 10 mint leaves o 1 ounce Simple Syrup (see: Syrups etc.) o ¾ ounce fresh lime juice o 1 ½ ounces Bombay Sapphire gin o 2 ounces Fever-Tree Premium Ginger Beer Garnish o mint sprig Method: 1. Muddle mint leaves with simple syrup, and lime juice in a cocktail shaker. 2. Add ice and gin and shake until chilled. 3. Strain into an ice-filled cocktail glass or copper mug. 4. Top with ginger beer. 5. Garnis

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Bombay gin o 1 dash Luxardo maraschino o 1 ½ ounces grapefruit juice Method: 1. Shake over ice. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. Remarks: For presentation purposes you may want to fine strain this. Pink or white grapefruit are both fine taste-wise, but we do think pink looks better. . . .

PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Bombay gin o 1 ½ ounces Lillet Rouge o 2 dashes Fernet~Branca Garnish o orange peel Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients with ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with an orange peel. Remarks: By Classico, we mean close to the original recipe. By 2 dashes, we mean a scant ¼ ounce. By Jiminy, you need to try this cocktail. . . .

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Bombay gin o ½ ounce Fernet~Branca o ½ ounce Ginger Syrup (see: Syrups etc.) o ½ ounce fresh lime juice Garnish o candied ginger Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients over ice. 2. Strain into an ice-filled Old Fashioned glass. 3. Garnish with candied ginger. Remarks: If you like your midnight snack to be sweet and spicy then this cocktail is for you. . . .