PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients:       Cocktail     o 1 ½ ounces Heaven’s Door Straight Rye whiskey o ¾ ounce Lillet Rouge o ½ ounce Bénédictine D.O.M. o 1 dash Angostura bitters o ¾ ounce Demerara Syrup (see: Syrups etc.) 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: Very tasty though a little sweet. Perhaps reducing the syrup by a half an

PH factor:  8.0 Recipe Ingredients:       Cocktail o ¼ ounce Pernod Absinthe Supérieure o 2 ounces Bombay Sapphire gin o ½ ounce Campari o 1 ½ ounces Lillet Rouge Garnish o orange twist Method: 1. Swirl absinthe to coat the inside of an Old Fashioned glass and discard the excess. 2. Combine remaining cocktail ingredients over ice in the prepared glass. 3. Garnish with orange twist. Remarks: Take a Negroni, add an anise flavored liqueur and note the ch

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Woodford Reserve bourbon o ½ ounce Grand Marnier o ½ ounce Lillet Rouge o 1 dash Hella Orange bitters o 2 ounces blood orange juice Garnish o ½ blood orange wheel o 1 green olive Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients over ice. 2. Serve up in a cocktail or over ice in an Old Fashioned glass. 3. Garnish with orange wheel and olive. Remarks: Same old Manhattan got you down? This just might be the

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients:       Cocktail     o 1 ½ ounces Heaven’s Door Straight Rye whiskey o ¾ ounce Lillet Rouge o 1 splash of Schladerer Edel-Kirsch liqueur o 1 dash Peychaud’s bitters o 1 dash of Pernod Absinthe Supérieure 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 cocktail created in the 30’s to commemorate the sinking of

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Chivas Regal scotch o ¾ ounce Lillet Rouge o 1 dash of Angostura bitters Garnish o 1 Tillen Farms Merry Maraschino cherry Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Strain into an ice-filled Old Fashioned glass. 3. Garnish with a cherry. Remarks: Some like their Manhattan with bourbon. Some like their Manhattan with rye. Some like their Manhattan with scotch. That's called a R

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Johnnie Walker Black Label scotch o ¾ ounce Lillet Rouge o 1 dash Pernod Absinthe Supérieure o 1 dash Hella Orange bitters Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. Remarks: A strong cocktail with an unequivocal point of view not unlike the poet it is named after. Who, by the way, also penned a song we've all been singing for years. . . .

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients:       Cocktail o 1 ounce Remy Martin VSOP cognac o 1 ounce Heaven’s Door Straight Rye whiskey o 1 ounce Lillet Rouge o 1 dash Angostura bitters or to taste Garnish o lemon peel Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with lemon peel. Remarks: A cocktail that dates back to the late 1800’s and is named for the town of Saratoga Springs. Which Sarasota

PH factor:  8.0 Recipe Ingredients:       Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Hennessy VS cognac o 1 ounce sake o ½ ounce Lillet Rouge o 1 dash of Woodford Reserve Cherry bitters or to taste Garnish o lemon twist o Tillen Farms Merry Maraschino cherry Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve over ice in a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with a cherry and a lemon twist. Remarks: We first tested this with a dry vermouth. Then we substituted Li

PH factor:  8.0 Recipe Ingredients:       Cocktail o ½ ounce Bombay gin o ½ ounce Campari o ½ ounce Lillet Rouge o ½ ounce Plymouth Sloe Gin Garnish o orange twist Method: 1. Combine cocktail ingredients in an ice-filled Old Fashioned glass. 2. Stir gently to chill. 3. Garnish with orange twist. Remarks: Looks like a classic Negroni. Has many of the ingredients of the classic Negroni. But the bitterness of a classic Negroni is muted by the sloe gin.

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients:       Cocktail    o 1 ounce Johnnie Walker Blue Label scotch o 1 ounce Campari o 1 ounce Lillet Rouge o 1-2 drops Moroccan Orange Blossom Water 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. Express orange peel over the drink and drop it in as a garnish. Remarks: Essentially a Negroni-esque cocktail with scotch in place of the

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail       o 2 ounces 1800 Reposado tequila o 1 ounce Lillet Rouge o 1 dash Hella Orange bitters or to taste Garnish o lime twist Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with a twist of lime. Remarks: Lighter and a bit tangier than your basic Manhattan. As with that cocktail, feel free to adjust the sweet vermouth, or in our case, the Lillet Rouge t

PH factor:  8.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Plymouth Sloe Gin o 1 ounce Lillet Rouge o 1 dash Angostura bitters or to taste 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 a lemon twist. Remarks: At first this might taste a bit unusual. But hang in there. . . .

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Tullamore D.E.W. Irish whiskey o ¾ ounce Lillet Blanc o ¾ ounce Lillet Rouge o 1 dash Angostura bitters or to taste o 1 bar spoon Pernod Absinthe Supérieure Garnish         o lemon twist Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients except absinthe over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Float absinthe on top. 4. Stab drink one time with a bar spoon. 5. Garnish with lemon

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients:       Cocktail o 2 ounces Bombay Sapphire gin o ¾ ounce Lillet Rosé o ¼ ounce Lillet Blanc o 1 dash Hella Citrus bitters Garnish o lemon twist Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a chilled martini glass. 3. Express lemon twist over the glass and drop it in as a garnish. Remarks: Okay, it’s got sweet vermouth and bitters, but it's still called a martini? A different kind of

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients:       Cocktail o 2 ounces Heaven’s Door Straight Rye whiskey o 1 ounce Lillet Rouge o 1 tablespoon yellow Chartreuse o 1 dash Angostura bitters or to taste Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. Remarks: An old-time neighborhood in Brooklyn that was the birthplace of Awkwafina, Pat Benatar, and Mickey Rooney, as well as Betty Smith who wrote the famous A Tree Gro

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients:       Cocktail o 2 ounces Hennessey VS cognac o 1 ounce Lillet Rouge o ½ teaspoon Simple Syrup (see: Syrups etc.) o 1 dash Angostura bitters or to taste Method: 1. Shake over ice. 2. Serve up in a martini glass. Remarks: The Metropolitan has all of the elements of the classic cocktail from the 1800s including bitters. Since bitters will often define the taste of a cocktail and since taste varies from person to person we

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Boulard Calvados VSOP o 1 ounce Lillet Rouge o ¼ ounce Fernet~Branca o ¼ ounce Luxardo maraschino Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. Remarks: Our version of the Newark Cocktail given the ingredients we work with. It is similar to the Brooklyn Cocktail which is not surprising as both of them are Manhattan adjacent. . . .

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients:       Cocktail o ¼ ounce Pernod Absinthe Supérieure o 1 ounce Heaven’s Door Straight Rye whiskey o ¼ ounce Fernet~Branca o 2 ½ ounces Lillet Rouge o 1 dash Hella Orange bitters Garnish o orange peel Method: 1. Swirl absinthe to coat the inside of a cocktail glass and discard the excess. 2. Stir remaining cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 3. Serve up in the prepared glass. 4. Express orange peel

PH factor:  8.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Tullamore DEW Irish whiskey o 1 ounce Lillet Rouge o ½ ounce yellow Chartreuse o 1 dash Angostura bitters or to taste Garnish o lemon twist Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass until very cold and some dilution has occurred. 2. Strain into a cocktail glass. 3. Express lemon rind over the glass. 4. Rub the rind around the rim of the glass skin side down and drop it in fo

PH factor:   9.5 Recipe Ingredients:       Cocktail o ¼ teaspoon Pernod Absinthe Supérieure o 2 ounces Heaven’s Door Straight Rye whiskey o ¾ ounce Lillet Rouge o 1 dash Angostura bitters Method: 1. Swirl absinthe to coat the inside of a cocktail glass and discard the excess. 2. Stir the remaining cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 3. Serve up in the prepared glass. Remarks: One might ask, “Why only coat the glass with absinthe?" Why? Becaus