PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Johnnie Walker Black Label scotch o ½ ounce Ilegal mezcal o ¾ ounce agave nectar o ¾ ounce fresh lemon juice Garnish o charred lemon wheel o thyme sprig Method: 1. Using a torch, char a lemon wheel and invert the glass over it to contain the smoke. 2. Shake cocktail ingredients over ice. 3. Serve up in the prepared glass. 4. Garnish with charred lemon wheel and thyme. Remarks: First thought: This is swe

PH factor:  8.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Chivas Regal scotch o 1 ounce Drambuie o ½ ounce Honey Syrup (see: Syrups etc.) o 1 ounce freshly squeezed lime juice Method: 1. Combine and stir cocktail ingredients except Drambuie in an Old Fashioned glass. 2. Warm the Drambuie then ignite and pour it into the glass. 3. Serve immediately. Remarks: A tasty way to celebrate the pyromaniac in all of us. . . .

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Chivas Regal scotch o ½ ounce Lillet Blanc o ½ ounce Lillet Rouge o 1 dash orange bitters Garnish o orange peel Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a martini glass. 3. Garnish with orange peel. Remarks: Essentially a perfect Manhattan made with scotch. Therefore the result is a little drier than its rye or bourbon cousins. . . .

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Johnnie Walker Blue Label scotch o 1 ounce Ilegal mezcal o ½ ounce Bénédictine D.O.M. o 1 dash Peychaud’s bitters or to taste Garnish o 1 thin apple slice Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Strain into an ice-filled Old Fashioned glass. 3. Garnish with a thin apple slice. Remarks: This is very similar to the Good Cork cocktail from the Mayahuel Bar in the East Village

PH factor:  10 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Johnnie Walker Blue Label scotch o ¼ ounce Fernet~Branca o ½ ounce Licor 43 (Cuarenta Y Tres) o ¾ ounce Blandy's 5-Year-Old Malmsey Madeira Garnish o grated black cardamom Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with grated black cardamom. Remarks: The “Nail in the Coffin” is from San Francisco’s Dirty Habit Bar. It uses Yamazaki 12-

PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Johnnie Walker Red Label scotch o ½ ounce Bombay Sapphire gin o ¾ ounce light Crème de Cacao o ¾ ounce cream Garnish o grated nutmeg Method: 1. Shake vigorously over ice. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with nutmeg. Remarks: It's a creamy cocktail that may not seem like the type of thing denizens of the Barbary Coast would be sipping. But perhaps we’re just being prejudiced. . . .

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Johnnie Walker Black Label scotch o ¾ ounce Cointreau o 1 dash Hella Orange bitters Garnish o orange twist Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Strain into an ice-filled Old Fashioned glass. 3. Garnish with an orange twist. Remarks: Don’t be too quick to close the door on this one. It has a very orange taste. But that can be an afternoon delight for scotch drinkers. .

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Johnnie Walker Black Label scotch o 1 bar spoon Pernod Absinthe Supérieure o ½ ounce Honey Syrup (see: Syrups etc.) o Martinelli's Sparkling Cider Garnish o dried apple slice Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients except cider over ice. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Top with cider. 4. Garnish with a dried apple slice. Remarks: Be careful with the absinthe. A scant bar spoon is plenty. When

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Johnnie Walker Black Label scotch o ½ ounce Bénédictine D.O.M. liqueur o 3 ounces Fever-Tree Premium Ginger Beer Garnish o lemon wheel Method: 1. Stir all but soda over ice in a highball glass. 2. Top with ginger beer and stir gently to combine. 3. Garnish with lemon wheel. Remarks: Bénédictine D.O.M. and scotch might well be the tastiest use of ginger beer we’ve found yet. . . .

PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Chivas Regal scotch o 1 ounce Lillet Rouge o ½ ounce Chambord o ½ ounce fresh orange juice Garnish o lemon peel Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a martini glass. 3. Garnish with lemon peel. Remarks: A most un-martini martini. It's fruity and sweet in a way that belies the fact that 4.5 of its 5 ounces are alcohol. This is not your grandmother’s martini. So

PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Johnnie Walker Red Label scotch o ½ ounce Lillet Blanc o ½ ounce Galliano o ½ ounce Simple Syrup (see: Syrups etc.) o ½ ounce fresh lemon juice o 1 ounce Fever-Tree Premium Club Soda Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients except soda over cracked ice. 2. Serve over cracked ice in a collins glass. 3. Top with soda. Remarks: Feel like having a cool glass of something different? Sit back with one of th

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Chivas Regal scotch o 1 ounce Campari o 1 ounce fresh lemon juice o 1 ounce orgeat syrup Garnish o lemon peel o ground cinnamon Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients over ice. 2. Strain into an ice-filled Old Fashioned glass. 3. Garnish with lemon peel and a pinch of cinnamon. Remarks: Not everyone will be happy with our scotch to Campari ratio. But you don’t need get bitter about it. Just change the

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 sprig of dried rosemary or 1 teaspoon of cracked herbal rosemary o 2 ounces Johnnie Walker Black Label scotch o ½ ounce green Chartreuse o ¼ ounce Rosemary Simple Syrup (see: Syrups etc.) Method: 1. Ignite rosemary with a torch and invert a martini glass over it to capture the smoke. 2. Stir the remaining cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 3. Serve up in the prepared glass. Remarks: We do like thi

PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Johnnie Walker Black scotch o ¾ ounce Schladerer Edel-Kirsch liqueur o ¾ ounce Lillet Rouge o ¾ ounce fresh orange juice Garnish o orange peel Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients over ice. 2. Serve up in a martini glass. 3. Garnish with orange peel. Remarks: You may have noticed that when recipes call for cherry brandy we will often substitute Schladerer Edel-Kirsch. That's because we appreciate its

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o ¾ ounce Chivas Regal scotch o ¾ ounce Lillet Rouge o 2 ounces freshly squeezed blood orange juice o 3 ounces Lindemans Kriek Lambic Garnish o 2 Tillen Farms Bada Bing cherries Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients except lambic over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Strain into in an oversized martini or large cocktail glass. 3. Add lambic. 4. Garnish with cherries. Remarks: It was a challenge finding cocktails that

PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Johnnie Walker Blue Label scotch o ½ ounce blue Curaçao o ¾ ounce fresh lemon juice o ¼ ounce agave nectar Method: 1. Shake over ice. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. Remarks: Blue Label scotch is thematically appropriate but not necessary in this surprisingly tasty cocktail. Feel free to try it with your own scotch du jour. . . .

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Chivas Regal scotch o ½ ounce blue Curaçao o 1 healthy pinch of a mixture of cinnamon and sugar Method: 1. Combine spirits in a wine glass and ignite. 2. Pour into another glass from a height. 3. Toss in cinnamon sugar. 4. Extinguish and pour into a shooter glass. Remarks: If you choose to flame this, we suggest that you first warm the spirits. Flamed or not this is a tasty drink due in large part to

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Chivas Regal scotch o 1 ounce Lillet Blanc o 1 ounce Lillet Rouge o 1 splash Bénédictine D.O.M. Garnish o lemon twist Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with lemon twist. Remarks: A classic cocktail with many recipes and origin stories. We suggest you try this version of the Bobby Burns. We think you will like it. . .

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ¼ ounces Chivas Regal or Hennessy VS cognac o ¾ ounce Drambuie o ¾ ounce fresh lime juice Garnish o lime wedge Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients over ice. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with a lime wedge. Remarks: Prince Charles Edward Stuart famous in songs, poems, and cocktails. We offer two of them, the Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Bubbly Prince Charlie. Both are worth a try. . .

PH factor:  8.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Chivas Regal scotch o ½ ounce green Chartreuse o ½ ounce Simple Syrup (see: Syrups etc.) o 1 dash Hella Orange bitters or to taste Garnish o orange peel flamed Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients over ice. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with orange peel. Remarks: This is a recent creation that is attributed to Andreas Noren and named after the infamous British mental institution. .

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail   o 1 ounce Johnnie Walker Red Label scotch o 1 ounce Tullamore DEW Irish whiskey o ½ ounce fresh lemon juice o ½ ounce orgeat syrup Garnish o lemon twist Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients over ice. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with lemon twist. Remarks: An easy cocktail to make and one that is both refreshing and delicious. . . .

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Chivas Regal scotch o 1 ounce Sandeman Tawny Porto 20 Year Old o ½ ounce Lillet Blanc o 1 dash Hella Orange bitters or to taste Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in cocktail glass. Remarks: Tawny port defines the taste of this cocktail. It’s therefore sweet and a little oaky. Not too sweet but enough to make one think a citrus garnish might be nice. . . .

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Johnnie Walker Blue Label scotch o 1 ounce Drambuie o 1 splash Lazzaroni amaretto Garnish o 1 Tillen Farms Bada Bing cherry Method: 1. Combine in an ice-filled Old Fashioned glass and stir briefly. 2. Garnish with the cherry. Remarks: Inspired by the BADA Bing! cocktail which we couldn't duplicate with our ingredients. So we got creative, used what we had and created this one. Ciao to you, big guy. .

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Johnnie Walker Black Label scotch o ½ ounce Lazzaroni amaretto o ½ ounce Drambuie Method: 1. Stir over ice in an Old Fashioned glass and serve. Remarks: Not exactly a rusty nail. The amaretto sees to that. It's also not the last time you will see us use scotch and Drambuie in a cocktail despite what the name might imply. . . .