PH factor: 10 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o ½ ounce Pernod Absinthe Supérieure o ½ ounce white Crème de Menthe o ½ ounce Sambuca o ¼ ounce orgeat syrup o 1 ounce cream o 1 egg white Garnish o freshly ground nutmeg Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients without ice. 2. Add ice and shake again to chill. 3. Strain into a cocktail glass. 4. Garnish with nutmeg. Remarks: October 7, 1910. A date that will live in infamy. That was the date the Swiss banned

PH factor: 9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Goslings Black Seal 151 proof rum o ½ ounce Sambuca Romano o ½ ounce Schladerer Edel-Kirsch liqueur o ½ ounce fresh lemon juice Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients over ice. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. Remarks: The kind of drink you’d want to have several of if you were long that infamous morning. . . .

PH factor: 8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Hennessy VS cognac o ½ ounce Lillet Blanc o ½ ounce Lillet Rouge o ¼ teaspoon Sambuca Romano o ½ teaspoon Triple Sec Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. Remarks: Attributed to Harry Craddock, bartender and author of the Savoy Cocktail Book. . . .

PH factor: 9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Flor de Caña Extra Seco rum o ½ ounce Sambuca Romano o ½ ounce fresh lemon juice o ½ teaspoon grenadine Garnish o lemon twist Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients over ice. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with lemon peel. Remarks: Surprisingly pleasant. It moves Sambuca out the "evening with coffee" time slot and into the bright light of day. . . .

PH factor: 9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Bombay Sapphire gin o ½ ounce Sambuca Romano o 1 ounce cream o ½ teaspoon sugar o 1 egg white Garnish o lemon twist Method 1. Shake cocktail ingredients without ice. 2. Add ice and shake again to chill. 3. Fine strain into a cocktail glass. 4. Garnish with lemon twist. Remarks: This cocktail with its two spirits is rather like a couple. As is the case with many couples, one of the parties may try

PH factor: 9.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Bombay Sapphire gin o ½ ounce Plymouth Sloe Gin o ½ ounce Lillet Blanc o ½ ounce Sambuca Romano o ¼ ounce Simple Syrup, see: Syrups etc. o splash of fresh lemon juice 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: This cocktail is sweet and exotic. If it only spoke French, Gomez woul

PH factor: 9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Finlandia vodka o 1 ounce Sambuca Romano o ½ ounce light Crème de Cacao Garnish o 1 licorice stick Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice to chill in a mixing glass. 2. Strain into a martini glass. 3. Garnish with licorice stick. Remarks: Stir well. It should be well chilled and a little dilution is not a bad thing here. By the time you get to enjoying the garnish, you will understand. .

PH factor: 9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 3 ounces Bombay Sapphire gin o 1 ounce Sambuca Romano Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients over ice. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. Remarks: Because of its reliance on cheap coal for heating and power the once famous London fog was actually more of a London smog. The pollution is largely gone now but we are left with a smooth licorice tasting cocktail. . . .

PH factor: 9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Remy Martin VSOP cognac o 1 ounce Sambuca Romano o 1 ounce Pierre Farrand Dry Curaçao o 1 egg yolk Method: 1. Shake without ice. 2. Add ice and shake to chill. 3. Fine strain into a cocktail glass. Remarks: Based on a classic cocktail that dates to the 1930’s . . .

PH factor: 9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Bombay Sapphire gin o 1 ounce Kahlúa o 1 ounce Sambuca Romano Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. Remarks: This is a sweet, light, candy bar of a cocktail. It is easy to make and easy to drink. . . .

PH factor: 9.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces 1800 Silver tequila o ¾ ounce Sambuca Romano o 1 ounce fresh lime juice o ¼ ounce agave nectar o 1 dash Hella Orange bitters o Fever-Tree Premium Club Soda Garnish o lime wedges Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients except soda over ice. 2. Strain into an ice-filled collins glass. 3. Top with soda. 4. Garnish with lime wedges. Remarks: This cocktail takes Sambuca into a whole new realm.

PH factor: 9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Johnnie Walker Black Label scotch o ¾ ounce Sambuca Romano o 2 dashes Angostura bitters or to taste o 1 ounce pineapple juice Garnish o pineapple wedge Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients over ice. 2. Serve up into a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with pineapple wedge. Remarks: We tried this with a “sweeter” scotch and with a "drier" one. Either way it still tasted like Sambuca on the rocks. We thought

PH factor: 9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Finlandia vodka o 1 ounce Sambuca Romano o 1 ½ ounces cream Garnish o confectioners' sugar Method: 1. Shake over ice. 2. Strain into an ice-filled Old Fashioned glass. 3. Garnish with confectioners' sugar sprinkled from well above the glass. Remarks: Sprinkling the sugar from on high not only creates a great visual but also, elegantly rims the upper edge of the glass. . . .

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 1 ounce Bombay gin o ½ ounce Sambuca Romano o 1 ounce fresh lime juice o champagne Garnish o Tillen Farms Merry Maraschino cherry (optional) Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients except champagne over ice. 2. Strain into a champagne flute. 3. Top with champagne. 4. The cherry garnish though not required in the original recipe is something we urge you to consider. Remarks: We reduced the Sambuca and re

PH factor: 9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2/3 ounce Woodford Reserve bourbon o 2/3 ounce green Chartreuse o 2/3 ounce Sambuca Romano Method: 1. Serve up in a shooter glass. 2. Take your best shot. Remarks: While intended to be served as a shooter, we felt disposed to sip it. There are many drinks with the same or similar names. Has something to do with the zombie apocalypse, I suppose. Until then, enjoy. . . .