PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o sugar o pumpkin pie spice o 2 ounces Finlandia vodka o ½ ounce Licor 43 (Cuarenta Y Tres) o 1 tablespoon bourbon o 1 ½ ounces Pumpkin Spice Syrup (see: Syrups etc.) o 1 ½ ounces cream Garnish o whipped cream o cinnamon stick Method: 1. Moisten the rim of a martini glass and invert it into a shallow dish containing a mixture of sugar and spice. 2. Shake remaining cocktail ingredients over ice. 3. S

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 3 ounces Finlandia vodka o 1 splash blue Curaçao o ½ ounce freshly squeezed lime 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: Q’s drink. The one he would drink several of while anxiously waiting for the safe return of Bond’s latest Aston Martin. . . .

PH factor:  10 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Bombay Sapphire gin o 2 ounces Finlandia vodka o 3 ounces Lillet Blanc Garnish o lemon peel and/or olives Method: 1. Stir over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a martini glass. 3. Garnish with olives and/or lemon peel. Remarks: If the Vesper is the Fred Astaire of cocktails, this is the Ginger Rogers. She dances every bit as well as Fred but in high heels and, well, in reverse. . . .

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Grey Goose vodka o 1 ounce Pimm’s No.1 Cup o 2 ounces grapefruit juice Method: 1. Shake over ice. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. Remarks: Grapefruit and Pimm’s Cup work well together to provide more of a cocktail than meets the eye not unlike the infamous report from the above. . . .

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Finlandia vodka o ½ ounce Crème de Cassis o 1 ounce fresh lemon juice o ½ ounce Simple Syrup, see: Syrups etc.) o champagne Garnish o lemon peel Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients except champagne over ice. 2. Strain into an ice-filled wine glass and top with champagne. 3. Garnish with a lemon peel. Remarks: As Einstein famously posited, “A springtime in Russia is a relative thing”. This

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o salt o 2 ounces Finlandia vodka or Bombay gin o 4 ounces grapefruit juice Garnish o lime wedge Method: 1. Moisten the rim of an Old Fashioned glass and invert it into a shallow dish of salt to coat the rim. 2. Shake remaining cocktail ingredients over ice to chill. 3. Serve over ice in the prepared glass. 4. Garnish with lime wedge. Remarks: There once was the Greyhound Cocktail. Someone then came up wi

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Finlandia vodka o 1 ounce Lazzaroni amaretto o 1 ounce Kahlúa o 1 ounce cream Method: 1. Shake over ice. 2. Serve up in cocktail glass. Remarks: The original recipe called for 2 ounces of each spirit. We thought that was excessive. Especially if you're planning to have multiple Screaming Orgasms. . . .

PH factor:  8.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Finlandia vodka o 4 ounces cranberry juice o 1 ounce grapefruit juice o 1 dash Angostura bitters Garnish o lemon wheel Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in highball glass. 2. Garnish with lemon wheel. Remarks: The original Sea Breeze dates back to the 1920s. It was made with gin and grenadine. In the 1950s Ocean Spray started to market cranberry juice and in in the 1970s they sponsored

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ½ ounces Bombay gin or Finlandia vodka o ½ ounce Lillet Blanc o 1 dash Angostura bitters Garnish o lemon peel Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients over ice. 2. Serve up in a martini glass. 3. Garnish with lemon peel. Remarks: We’ve heard that the plus side of shaking has to do with the liberating of anti-oxidants (?). We say, if you want a cloudy martini shake it. If you don't want clouds in your c

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:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Finlandia vodka o ½ ounce blue Curaçao o 2 ounces Sauvignon Blanc o champagne Method: 1. Combine first three cocktail ingredients in a champagne flute or cocktail glass. 2. Top with champagne. Remarks: An interesting cocktail for the party after the ceremony. It's drier than most champagne cocktails. . . .

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Finlandia vodka o 1 ounce Licor 43 (Cuarenta y Tres) o 3 ounces fresh orange juice Garnish o cinnamon stick o orange slice Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients over ice. 2. Strain into an ice-filled Old Fashioned glass. 3. Garnish with orange slice and cinnamon stick. Remarks: This Screwdriver may be a bit excessive garnishment-wise. If you feel it is too sweet, try skewing the liquor to liqueu

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o sugar o 2 ounces Grey Goose vodka o 1 ½ ounces Plum Gekkeikan wine o ½ ounce St. Germain liqueur Garnish o 1 cracked almond Method: 1. Moisten the rim of a martini glass and invert it into a shallow dish of sugar to coat the rim of the glass. 2. Stir remaining cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 3. Strain into the prepared glass. 4. Garnish with a cracked almond. Remarks: This is a fun d

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Finlandia vodka o 1 ounce Bombay Sapphire gin o ½ ounce Lillet Blanc o ½ ounce blue Curaçao Garnish o lemon peel Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a martini glass. 3. Express lemon peel over the drink and drop it in for garnish. Remarks: This has the ingredients of the Vesper cocktail but in different quantities. It doesn’t demand your attention

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Grey Goose vodka o ½ ounce St. Germain liqueur o 1 splash of pineapple juice o ½ ounce Honey Syrup see: Syrups etc. o champagne Garnish o 3 sparrow tears if available Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients except champagne over ice. 2. Strain into a chilled flute. 3. Top with champagne. 4. Garnish with sparrow tears to taste. Remarks: Sweet, like tears of joy for the unexpected reoccurrenc

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Grey Goose vodka o ½ ounce St. Germain liqueur o ½ ounce Honey Syrup (see: Syrups etc.) o champagne Garnish o 2-3 drops Moroccan Orange Blossom Water o 3 sparrow tears (if available) Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients except champagne over ice. 2. Strain into a chilled flute. 3. Top with champagne. 4. Garnish with sparrow tears to taste. 5. Using an eye dropper add two or three drop

PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o sugar o 5 blackberries o 1 ¾ ounces Grey Goose vodka o 1 ounce St. Germain liqueur o ¾ ounce fresh lemon juice Garnish o mint leaf Method: 1. Moisten the rim of a martini glass and invert it into a shallow dish of sugar to coat the rim. 2. Muddle blackberries in a cocktail shaker. 3. Add ice and remaining cocktail ingredients and shake to chill. 4. Fine strain into the prepared glass. 5. Garn

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o ½ ounce Flor de Caña Extra Seco rum o ½ ounce Finlandia vodka o ½ ounce Cointreau o ½ ounce green Crème de Menthe Garnish o lemon twist Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a martini glass. 3. Garnish with lemon twist. Remarks: The Jade Spider is a pretty shade of green in your glass. It tastes of mint in a nicely refreshing way. . . .

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Grey Goose vodka o ½ ounce Bénédictine D.O.M. o ½ ounce Boulard Calvados VSOP o ½ ounce blue Curaçao o ½ ounce fresh lemon juice o 1 ounce pineapple juice o 1 splash agave nectar Garnish o lemon peel Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients over ice. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with lemon peel. Remarks: Creating this cocktail was quite a journey. Like all journeys some w

PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Finlandia vodka o ¾ ounce fresh lime juice o 2 ounces Lemonade, see: Syrups etc. o 1 dash Angostura bitters o 3 ounces Fever-Tree Premium Tonic Water Garnish o lime wheel o mint sprig Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients except tonic water in an ice-filled highball glass. 2. Top with tonic water. 3. Garnish with a lime wheel and mint sprig. Remarks: Definitely worth the extra few seconds. Th

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Mill Six Hemp, White Tea and Ginger Flavored vodka o 1 dash Hella Citrus bitters or to taste o 1 dash Hella Ginger bitters or to taste o 4 ounces Fever-Tree Premium Tonic Water Garnish o lemon or lime wheel Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients except tonic water over ice in a collins glass. 2. Top with tonic water. 3. Garnish with a lemon or lime wheel. Remarks: You may think that this is ju

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Finlandia vodka o 1 ½ ounces Cointreau o 1 dash Plymouth Sloe Gin o 3 ounces fresh orange juice Garnish o orange peel o strawberry slices Method: 1. Pour spirits into an ice-filled collins glass. 2. Add orange juice and stir to combine. 3. Garnish with orange peel and strawberry slices. Remarks: This is a tasty way to overdose on Vitamin “C” and it's a great brunch or breakfast drink. One

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Finlandia vodka o ½ ounce Licor 43, Cuarenta Y Tres o 4 ounces Orangina Sparkling Citrus Beverage Garnish o orange peel Method: 1. Combine spirits in an ice-filled highball glass. 2. Add Orangina. 3. Garnish with a long thin spiral of orange peel and serve with a straw. Remarks: A bit of a twist on the venerable Screwdriver. The Turn is a very pleasant, easy to make cocktail. The taste of a Scre

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o ½ kiwifruit peeled o ½ ounce Grey Goose vodka o 1 ½ ounces sake o ¼ ounce agave syrup o 2 ounces Fever-Tree Premium Club Soda Garnish o 1 slice of peeled kiwifruit Method: 1. Muddle kiwifruit in a cocktail shaker. 2. Add ice and remaining cocktail ingredients except soda and shake to chill. 3. Fine strain into a cocktail glass. 4. Add a piece or two of fresh ice and top with soda. 5. Garnish w