PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Mount Gay Eclipse rum o 1 ounce Boulard Calvados VSOP o 1 splash of Lillet Rouge Garnish o 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: An easy pleasant cocktail. If you want a sweeter Bolero try using a Jamaican rum. . . .

PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces J. Wray Silver Jamaican rum o 1 ½ ounces blue Curaçao o 2 ounces Coco López cream of coconut o 2 ounces pineapple juice Garnish o pineapple wedge Method: 1. Blend over ice. 2. Serve up in a chilled hurricane glass. 3. Garnish with pineapple wedge. Remarks: This is how a blender cocktail should look and taste. We have not included many blender drinks. Why not? Tis a mystery. . . .

PH factor:  8.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Flor de Caña Extra Seco rum o 3 ounces pineapple juice o 2 ounces blood orange juice o ½ ounce fresh lime juice Garnish o blood orange wheel Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve over ice in a collins or hurricane glass. 3. Garnish with blood orange wheel. Remarks: There are of course other rum and pineapple cocktails. Some are more visually appealing. But looks aren’t everything. . . .

PH factor:  8.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Finlandia vodka o ½ ounce Flor de Caña Extra Seco rum o ½ ounce Galliano o 3 ounces fresh orange juice Garnish o orange wedge Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients over ice. 2. Strain into an ice-filled collins glass. 3. Garnish with orange wedge. Remarks: The above position is actually known as the Brass Monkey Variation. Honest. Google it . . . .

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Flor de Caña Extra Seco rum o 1 ounce 1800 Añejo tequila o 2 ½ ounces pineapple juice o 1 ounce grapefruit juice o ½ ounce agave syrup Garnish o Tillen Farms Merry Maraschino cherry o pineapple wedge Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients over ice. 2. Serve up in a chilled cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with a cherry and a pineapple wedge. Remarks: This tastes the way you would expect it to taste. Summery. . . .

PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Heaven’s Door Straight Rye whiskey o ¾ ounce Ilegal mezcal o ½ ounce Bénédictine D.O.M. o ½ ounce Lillet Blanc o 2-3 drops Bittermens Xocolatl Mole bitters or to taste Garnish o orange twist Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Strain into a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with an orange twist. sfor·zan·do   (sfôrt-sän′dō)  Music adv. & adj. Abbr. sfz  or sf Suddenly   or strongly accented.   Remarks: The Sforzando cocktail also strikes a note you can't ignore. It grabs your attention from the first sip and holds it to the last and that's fine by us. . . .

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o salt o adobo o 1 or 2 tablespoons of your favorite salsa or to taste o 1 ½ ounces 1800 Silver tequila o ½ ounce Monte Alban mezcal o ½ ounce fresh lime juice o 4 ounces tomato juice o 2-4 dashes Worcestershire sauce Garnish o lime wedge Method: 1. Moisten the rim of a collins glass and invert it into a shallow dish containing a mixture of salt and adobo to coat the rim of the glass. 2. Muddle the salsa in a cocktail shaker. 3. Add ice and remaining cocktail ingredients and shake to chill. 4. Serve over ice in the prepared glass. 5. Garnish with a lime wedge. Remarks: Tired of the same old Bloody Mary? Or maybe eating mass quantities of celery has lost its appeal. Try this to spark up your next brunch. . . .

PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o ¾ ounce Ilegal mezcal o ¾ ounce Aperol o ¾ ounce yellow Chartreuse o ¾ ounce fresh lime juice Method: 1. Shake over ice. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. Remarks: This is a cocktail that definitely deserves a second look. It is an another drink from Death & Co. attributed to Joaquín Símo. It is both pretty and delicious. Who can ask for more? . . .

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 teaspoon grated ginger o ¾ ounce fresh lime juice o 2 ounces Ilegal mezcal o 1 ounce agave nectar o 4 ounces Fever-Tree Premium Ginger Beer Garnish o lime wedge o mint sprig Method: 1. Muddle ginger and lime juice in a cocktail shaker. 2. Add ice and remaining cocktail ingredients except the ginger beer and shake to chill. 3. Strain into an ice-filled copper mug. 4. Add ginger beer. 5. Garnish with mint and lime. Remarks: Mezcal Mule sounds a little like Moscow Mule. In a copper mug it looks like a Moscow Mule. But taste it and you’ll immediately know this is no Moscow Mule. . . .

PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 3 lime wedges o 1 teaspoon grated ginger o 3 dashes Angostura bitters o 1 ½ ounces Mount Gay XO rum o ¾ ounce Ilegal mezcal o ¾ ounce St. Germain liqueur o 1 ½ ounces blood orange juice Garnish o blood orange peel o 2 dashes of Angostura bitters Method: 1. Muddle lime, ginger and bitters in a cocktail shaker. 2. Add ice and remaining cocktail ingredients and shake. 3. Fine strain into a martini glass. 4. Garnish with the orange peel and top with the bitters. Remarks: Slaying this dragon is worth the effort. However, when you squeeze the life out of a blood orange, make sure you clean up the crime scene. . . .

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Johnnie Walker Black Label scotch o ½ ounce Ilegal mezcal o ½ ounce Campari o ½ ounce Lillet Rouge o ½ ounce fresh orange juice Garnish o orange peel Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with orange peel. Remarks: Taken from Sarah Morrissey's Greyfriar cocktail recipe and adapted to fit our ingredients list. We also added the orange juice. It is still Campari forward but we hope it's a little better balanced. . . .

PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Johnnie Walker Black Label scotch o ¼ ounce Ilegal mezcal o ¾ ounce Lillet Blanc o ½ ounce Amontillado sherry o ¼ ounce light Crème de Cacao Garnish o grapefruit peel Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with grapefruit peel. Remarks: This is a strong and attractive cocktail. The five spirits needed to make it will have a profound effect on your liquor cabinet, . . .