Recipes

Blind Russian

• 2 oz. vodka
• 1 oz. coffee liquor
• Irish cream

Build in an Old Fashioned glass with ice. Add coffee liqueur and vodka. Then slowly add the Irish cream, floating it over the other ingredients. Serve as is, but stir gently before drinking.

Cherry Blossom

• 2 oz. Cherry vodka
• 1 oz. lime juice
• 3/4 oz. simple syrup
• soda water
• Garnish with cherry and lime wedge

Build in a pint glass. Add vodka, lime juice, simple syrup, and fill with ice. Add to shaker and shake the hell out of it. Pour back into the pint glass, add ice to the top and fill with soda water. Crush the lime wedge over the top and serve with a straw and a cherry.

Stolen with love from Shanghai Tunnel, Portland, OR.

Manhattan

You’ll serve this one up (no ice) in a chilled cocktail glass. To chill the glass, fill it with ice and top with water while you’re building your Manhattan in a shaker or pint glass. When it’s time to serve, dump out the ice and water and give the glass a good shake.

The Manhattan, like the Old Fashioned, can be made with various whiskies. Rye or Canadian is best.

Build in a pint glass.

• 2 oz. Rye or Canadian whiskey
• 3/4 oz. Sweet Vermouth
• 1-2 dashes Angostura Bitters
• Garnish with maraschino cherry

Fill pint glass with ice and add whiskey, vermouth, and bitters. Stir for 15-20 seconds. Strain into chilled cocktail glass, garnish with cherry and serve up.

Old Fashioned

There is plenty of debate about the true recipe of the Old Fashioned. Though the typically built with bourbon, we find that rye often makes for a more complex cocktail.

Build in an Old Fashioned glass

• 1 1/2 oz. bourbon (or other whiskey)
• 1 sugar cube
• 2-3 dashes Angostura Bitters
• Splash soda water
• Garnish with orange slice and maraschino cherry

Place sugar cube in bottom of glass and use the 2-3 dashes of bitters to saturate the sugar cube. Add a splash of soda water and muddle until sugar is dissolved. Add ice to top of glass and add whiskey. Stir for 15-20 seconds, garnish with orange slice and maraschino cherry.

Some prefer to add a small bit of orange peel before the muddling, which makes for a slightly sweet and less bourbon-forward drink.

Pisco Sour

• 2 oz. Pisco
• 1 oz. Lime juice
• 3/4 oz. Simple syrup
• 1 Egg white
• 1 dash Angostura Bitters

Build in a cocktail shaker. Fill shaker with ice, then add Pisco, lime juice, simple syrup, and the egg white. Shake hard for at least 30 seconds. Strain into a sour or Old Fashioned glass and serve up (no ice). Add the dash of bitters to the top of the foam on the cocktail.  Alternatively, in place of the cocktail shaker you can blend with crushed ice.

Whiskey Sour

Time to show of your cocktail shaking skills. Dust off the shaker and build this classic sour in it.

• 2 oz. bourbon or rye
• 1 oz. fresh lemon juice
• 3/4 oz. simple syrup
• Soda water
• Garnish with lemon twist and maraschino cherry

optional: rim your serving glass with sugar. Use and lime wedge to wet the rim and dip in a course sugar

Fill your shaker with ice and add the whiskey, lemon juice, and simple syrup. Shake vigorously for 15-20 seconds and strain into a sour glass (6 oz.) filled with ice. Top up with soda water.

White Mexican

• 1 oz. coffee liqueur
• 2 oz. vodka
• Horchata

Build in an Old Fashioned glass with ice. Add coffee liqueur and vodka. Then slowly add the horchata, floating it over the other ingredients. Serve as is, but stir gently before drinking.