PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 dash Angostura bitters or to taste o 1 sugar cube or 1 teaspoon sugar o 1 ½ ounces Chivas Regal scotch o champagne Method: 1. Combine bitters and sugar in a champagne flute. 2. Add scotch. 3. Top with champagne and stir once gently. Remarks: You might say a Scotch Royale is a Champagne Cocktail with scotch instead of cognac and with no garnish. You'll get no argument from us. . . .

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:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Chivas Regal scotch o ½ ounce Drambuie o ½ ounce Lillet Blanc 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 made with scotch and Drambuie but named the Loch Lomond. We suspect Rusty Nail was already taken. . . .

PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Chivas Regal scotch o ½ ounce Lillet Rouge o ½ ounce St. Germain liqueur Garnish o 1 Tillen Farms Merry Maraschino cherry Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with a cherry. Remarks: The substitution of St. Germain for the Lillet Blanc found in the Affinity Cocktail makes this a different drink. One that is very floral and very French. . . .

PH factor:  8.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Johnnie Walker Red Label scotch o 1 ounce Drambuie o ¾ ounce fresh lime juice o 1 egg white o Fever-Tree Premium Club Soda Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients except soda without ice. 2. Add ice and shake again. 3. Fine strain into a collins glass. 4. Top the drink by slowly adding soda to fill the glass. Remarks: This is mild, pleasant, and good with food. It's a bit of work but well worth it. . . .

PH factor:  8.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Chivas Regal scotch o 1 ounce green Crème de Menthe o ½ ounce fresh lemon juice Garnish o mint sprig o slice of kiwi fruit Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients over ice. 2. Serve up in a martini glass. 3. Garnish with kiwifruit and mint sprig. Remarks: Scotch is often underrated as a liquor to be mixed with other liquors and liqueurs. We want to change that. . . .

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o ¼ ounce Pernod Absinthe Supérieure o 2 ounces Johnnie Walker Black Label scotch o 1 ounce Lillet Blanc o 1 dash Peychaud’s bitters or to taste Method: 1. Swirl absinthe in chilled martini glass and discard the excess. 2. Stir remaining cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 3. Serve up in the prepared glass. Remarks: This is an unusual assortment of ingredients that produce an unusually good cocktail. . . .

PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Johnnie Walker Red Label scotch o 2 ounces Coco Lopez Coconut Cream o 3 ounces pineapple juice o ¾ ounce fresh lime juice o 1 splash of water o 1 pinch of sea salt o 1 dash Angostura bitters Garnish o pineapple slice o pineapple leaves Method: 1. Blend cocktail ingredients with ice until smooth. 2. Serve over ice in a hurricane glass. 3. Garnish with pineapple slice and leaves. Remarks: Though this may look like any other tropical cocktail you've had, we think it'll surprise you. . . .

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:  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:  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. Sorry, Gram. . . .

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. . . .