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 Ab

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Goslings Black Seal rum (151 Proof) 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 wou

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 famous London fog was actually London smog. The pollution is largely gone now and all we are left with is 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. Garnish though not required in the original recipe is something we urge you to think about. Remarks: We reduced the Sambuca and reteste

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. Must be something to do with the zombie apocalypse that's coming. Until then, enjoy. . . .