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Defining Features

Flavor Profile

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Grain- or Grape- neutral spirit distilled with botanicals

Juniper is key along with citrus floral citrus and herbal notes

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Honolulu

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Sweet & Fruity

2 oz Dry gin
1/4 oz Lemon juice
1/4 oz Orange juice
1/4 oz Pineapple juice
1 tsp Simple syrup
Dash Aromatic bitters
  • Combine liquid ingredients, add ice, and shake
  • Strain into a martini glass
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Ace Cocktail

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Sweet & Fruity

1.5 oz Dry gin
1/2 oz Grenadine
1/2 oz Heavy cream
1/4 tsp Lemon juice
1 Egg white
Garnish: Nutmeg
  • Combine liquid ingredients and whip
  • Add ice and shake to chill
  • Strain into a martini glass and dust with nutmeg
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Opal

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Sweet & Fruity

1.5 oz Dry gin
1 oz Orange juice
1/2 oz Orange liqueur
1/2 tsp Simple Syrup
Dash Orange flower water
  • Combine all ingredients, fill with ice, and shake
  • Strain into chilled martini glass
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Pom Gin Fizz

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Sweet & Fruity

1.5 oz Dry gin
1 oz Simple syrup
1/2 Lemon juice
1/2 Pomegranate juice
2 drops pure vanilla extract
2 drops Orange flower water
2 oz Heavy cream
1 Egg white 
Club soda
  • Combine gin, simple, juices, vanilla, orange flower water, cream, egg white, and whip
  • Fill with ice and shake (traditionally until it hurts)
  • Strain into a collins glass
  • Swirl club soda between shakers sides to pick up remaining egg white to make a head. Top off glass.
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Ramos Gin Fiz

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Sweet & Fruity

1.5 oz Dry gin
1 oz Simple syrup
1/2 Lemon juice
1/2 Lime juice
2 drops pure vanilla extract
2 drops Orange flower water
2 oz Heavy cream
1 Egg white 
Club soda
  • Combine gin, simple, juices, vanilla, orange flower water, cream, egg white, and whip
  • Fill with ice and shake (traditionally until it hurts)
  • Strain into a collins glass
  • Swirl club soda between shakers sides to pick up remaining egg white to make a head. Top off glass.
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Sherry Berry Bramble

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Sweet & Fruity

1.5 oz Dry gin
3/4 oz Lemon juice
3/4 oz Simple syrup
1/4 oz Blackberry Liqueur
Garnish: Blackberry, mint sprig, and confectioners sugar
  • Combine liquid ingredients, fill with ice, and stir
  • Strain into a collins glass 1/2 filled with crushed ice.
  • Fill glass full with crushed ice and garnish with blackberry, mint and sugar
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No. 1 Fruit Cup Cocktail

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Sweet & Fruity

1 oz Cheater’s cup
5 oz ginger beer
Garnish: cucumber spear or orange slice

  • Combine liquid ingredients, fill with ice and shake
  • Strain into collins glass with crushed ice
  • Garnish with cucumber or orange
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The Bloodbath

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Sweet & Fruity

6 Raspberries
3/4 oz Orange juice
1.5 oz Dry gin
3/4 Dry vermouth
3/4 oz Spiced Sweet Vermouth
2 dashes Orange Bitters
  • Muddle raspberries in juice
  • Add remaining ingredients, fill with ice, and shake
  • Double strain into martini glass
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Bee’s Knees

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Tangy & Citrusy

1.5 oz Dry gin
3/4 Lemon juice
3/4 Honey syrup
Garnish: Orange twist

  • Combine liquid ingredients, fill with ice, and shake
  • Strain into martini glass and garnish with orange
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Bramble

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Tangy & Citrusy

1.5 oz Dry gin
3/4 oz Lemon juice
1/2 oz Simple Syrup
3/4 oz Blackberry Liqueur
Garnish: 2 Raspberries & lemon slice
  • Combine gin, juice, and syrup, fill with ice, stir
  • Strain into collins glass half filled with crushed ice and pour blackberry liqueur over top of drink
  • Garnish with raspberries and lemon
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Box Car

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Tangy & Citrusy

1.5 oz Dry gin
3/4 oz Lime juice
1/2 oz Orange liqueur
1 teaspoon Grenadine

  • Combine all ingredients, fill with ice, and shake
  • Strain into a martini glass
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Clover Club

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Tangy & Citrusy

1.5 oz Dry gin
3/4 oz Lemon juice
3/4 oz Raspberry syrup
1 Egg white

  • Combine all ingredients and whip
  • Fill with ice and shake to chill
  • Strain into a martini glass
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The Fitzgerald

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Tangy & Citrusy

1.5 oz Dry gin
3/4 Lemon juice
3/4 Simple syrup
2 dashes Aromatic bitters

  • Combine all ingredients, fill with ice, and shake
  • Strain into martini glass
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French 75

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Tangy & Citrusy

1.5 oz Dry gin
3/4 Lemon juice
2 tsp Simple syrup
Champagne/sparkling wine

  • Combine gin, juice, and syrup, fill with ice, and shake
  • Strain into a flute and top with chilled Champagne
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Fresh Lime Gimlet

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Tangy & Citrusy

1.5 oz Dry gin
3/4 oz Lime juice
1/2 oz Simple syrup
Garnish: Mint sprig or cucumber slice

  • Combine all ingredients, fill with ice, and shake
  • Strain into martini glass and garnish as desired
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The Reinvented Gimlet

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Tangy & Citrusy

2 oz Dry gin (navy strength)
1 oz oz Lime Cordial
Garnish: Lime twist

Combine gin and cordial, fill with ice, and stir until aroma of the spirit is released
- Strain into martini glass and garnish with lime

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Gin and Tonic

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Tangy & Citrusy

2 oz Dry gin
Tonic water
Garnish: Lime wedge

  • Fill a collins glass with ice cubes
  • Add gin, top with tonic, squeeze lime wedge and drop it in
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Gin Rickey

Gin Buck

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Tangy & Citrusy

2 oz Dry gin
3/4 oz Lime juice
1/2 lime
Club soda (or Ginger beer)

  • Fill collins glas with ice cubes
  • Add gin, juice and squeeze lime and stir gently
  • Top with club soda (ginger beer)
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Circus Rickey
Floradora
Fin De Siècle

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Tangy & Citrusy

  • Gin Rickey + dash Grenadine on top of club soda
  • Gin Buck + 1/2 oz Raspberry syrup
  • Gin Rickey - 1/2 Lime + 1/2 lemon + 1 tsp Raspberry syrup
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Green Snapper

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Tangy & Citrusy

2 oz Dry gin
6 oz Green Snapper Mix

  • Combine gin and mix, add ice, stir
  • Strain into a collins glass filled with ice cubes
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Green Snapper Mix

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20 oz Pineapple juice
2 oz Lime juice
Granulated sugar
2 Tbsp chopped mint
2 Tbsp shopped cilantro
1/2 tsp sea salt
  • Combine ingredients in blender and pulse to combine
  • Strain into a pitcher/airtight container
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Montford Snapper

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Tangy & Citrusy

1.5 oz Dry gin
6 oz Montford Snapper Mix
2 dashes Tabasco Sauce
Salt and pepper
Garnish: Parsley sprig and lemon wheel
  • Combine gin and mix, add ice, stir
  • Season with tabasco, salt, and pepper
  • Strain into a collins glass filled with ice cubes and garnish with parsley and wheel.
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Montfort Snapper Mix

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9 oz Tomato juice
6 oz Beet juice
6 oz Blood orange juice
3 oz Carrot juice
3/4 oz Lemon juice
3/4 oz Simple syrup 
1/2 tsp sea salt
1/8 tsp black pepper
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Bloody Mary variations:
Bloody Bull
Bloody Caesar
Bloody Fairy
Bloody Geisha
Bloody Maria
Bloody Maureen
Bloody Molly
Chelada
Cubanito
Danish Mary
Highland Mary/Bloody Scotsman
Red Snapper
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  • Beef bouillon is added
  • Clamato juice instead of tomato
  • Absinthe instead of vodka
  • Sake instead of vodka
  • Tequila instead of vodka
  • Guinness instead of vodka
  • Irish whiskey instead of vodka
  • Mexican beer instead of vodka
  • White rum instead of vodka
  • Aquavit instead of vodka
  • Scotch instead of vodka
  • Gin instead of vodka
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Gunpowder and Smoke

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Tangy & Citrusy

1 Egg White
2 oz Dry gin
1/2 oz Lemon juice
1/2 oz Gunpowder Liqueur
100-proof rye whiskey in atomizer
  • Combine egg white, gin, lemon juice, and liqueur and whip
  • Fill with ice and shake
  • Strain into martini glass
  • Mist and ignite whiskey over drink three times
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Pegu Cup

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Tangy & Citrusy

1.5 oz Dry gin
1/2 oz Orange liqueur
3/4 oz Lime juice
2 dashes Aromatic bitters

  • Combine all ingredients, fill with ice, and shake
  • Strain into a martini glass
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Southside

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Tangy & Citrusy

2 oz Dry gin
3/4 oz Lemon juice
2 tsp Simple syrup
Garnish: 6 Mint leaves

  • Combine liquid ingredients, fill with ice, and shake
  • Strain into martini glass and garnish with mint
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Tea’s Knees

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Tangy & Citrusy

3/4 oz Lemon juice
1/2 oz Honey syrup
1/2 oz Ginger syrup
1.5 oz Dry gin
1/2 oz Lapsang Souchong Infused gin
Garnish: Candied ginger
  • Combine juices, syrups, and dry gin, fill with ice and shake
  • Strain into a rocks glass filled with ice
  • Gently pour infused gin on top of drink with back of bar spook
  • Garnish with ginger
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White Lady

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Tangy & Citrusy

1.5 oz Dry gin
3/4 oz Orange liqueur
3/4 oz Lemon juice

  • Combine all ingredients, fill with ice, and shake
  • Strain into a martini glass
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Zelli’s Special

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Tangy & Citrusy

2 oz Dry gin
1/2 oz Dry vermouth
1 lime
1 tsp grenadine

  • Combine all ingredients squeezing lime for juice, fill with ice, and shake
  • Strain into a martini glass
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Bloodhound

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Strong

3 Hulled strawberries + Garnish
1.5 Dry gin
3/4 Dry vermouth
3/4 Sweet vermouth

  • Muddle strawberries, then add gin and vermouths
  • Fill with ice and shake
  • Strain into a martini glass and garnish with strawberry
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Satan’s Whiskers

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Strong

1 oz Dry Gin
1/2 oz Dry vermouth
1/2 oz Sweet vermouth
1/2 oz Orange liqueur
1 oz orange juice
Dash orange bitters
  • Combine all ingredients, fill with ice, and shake
  • Strain into a martini glass
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West Indian Cocktail

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Strong

1 Sugar cube
4 dashes Aromatic bitters
1 tsp lemon juice
2 oz Dry gin

  • Muddle sugar cube with biters
  • Add juice and dissolve sugar,
  • Add gin, fill with ice and stir
  • Strain into rocks glass with one large cube
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Bijou (Ritz Version)

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Strong

2 oz Dry gin
1/2 oz Orange liqueur
1/2 oz Dry vermouth
Dash orange bitters
Garnish: Brandied Cherries
  • Combine all liquid ingredients, fill with ice, and stir
  • Strain into a chilled martini glass and garnish with cherries
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Delmonico No. 1

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Strong

1 oz Dry gin
1/2 oz Cognac-style brandy
1/2 oz Dry vermouth
1/2 oz Sweet vermouth
Lemon twist, for serving
  • Combine liquid ingredients, fill with ice, and stir
  • Strain into a chill martini glass and spritz lemon twist over drink for essential oils
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Gin-Blind

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Strong

2 oz Dry gin
1/4 oz Orange liqueur
1/2 oz Cognac-style brandy
2 dashes Orange bitters

  • Combine all ingredients, fill with ice, stir
  • Strain into a chilled martini glass
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The Martini

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Strong

2.5 oz Dry gin
1/2 oz Dry vermouth
Dash Orange bitters (opt)
Garnish: Lemon twist or olives

  • Combine liquid ingredients, fill with ice, and stir
  • Strain into a chilled martini glass and garnish with lemon or olives
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Thunderbolt

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Strong

1 tsp Orange Liqueur
3 oz Dry gin
1/4 tsp Dry vermouth
3 drops Lime juice
Lemon twist, for service
  • Place orange liqueur in martini glass and allow it and a mixing glass to chill in freezer for 10 minutes
  • In mixing glass combine gin and vermouth, fill with ice and stir
  • Removed chilled martini glass and swirl to coat inside with liqueur and discard liqueur
  • Strain into the prepared martini glass and add the drops of lime juice
  • Spritz lemon twist for essential oils
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Wild Rose

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Strong

2 oz Dry gin
1/2 oz Dry vermouth
1/2 oz Sweet vermouth
Dash aromatic bitters
Dash orange bitters
  • Combine all ingredients, fill with ice, and stir
  • Strain into martini glass
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Devil’s Own

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Strong

1 oz Dry gin
1 oz Dry vermouth
1 oz Orange liqueur
Dash Aromatic bitters

  • Combine all ingredients, fill with ice, and shake
  • Strain into martini glass
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Tom Collins

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Tangy & Citrusy

2 oz Dry gin
1 oz Lemon juice
1 tsp Confectioner's sugar
Club soda
Garnish: Lemon slice
  • Combine gin, juice, and sugar and stir until sugar is dissolved
  • Strain into collins glass with cubed ice
  • Add soda and garnish with lemon

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