Tag: Chartreuse

Purgatory

Here’s a simple, boozy drink created in 2007 by Ted Kilgore, bar manager of Monarch Restaurant in Maplewood, Missouri back then. We were introduced to this one by a commenter

Dead Poet

Here is another spirit-driven cocktail featuring Yellow Chartreuse. This time, we only need a spoonful, but it’s just enough to create some herbal overtones for what is otherwise a somewhat

Ce Soir

Here’s a delicious, spirit-driven cocktail that is super easy to make. It’s called the Ce Soir and comes from the now-closed Boston cocktail bar, The Hawthorne. This drink was created

The Last Spritz

We like to think of our previous post as a kind of stand-in for the Aperol Spritz, a cocktail recipe that we barely described over a decade past, and later

Final Ward

It is always difficult to pin us down on a favorite cocktail. Whenever we get asked this question our response is usually a comeback with more questions, like, “spirit-driven, or

Green Cross Swizzle

Green Chartreuse is absolutely one of the world’s pleasures. You can disagree, but if you are reading this and you haven’t had personal experience with this ingredient you just don’t

Barrel Roll

We’ve covered so many recipes over the years it is easy to forget posts from the early days. We continue forward with seemingly no end in sight, but sharing virtual

Jaguar

The first time we came across Amer Picon it was when we read the recipe for the Brooklyn Cocktail in Ted “Dr. Cocktail” Haigh’s excellent book, Vintage Spirits & Forgotten

Tailspin

Well, the holiday season is just around the corner! Too soon? Ok, then let’s have a little distraction before we deal with lots of food, family, gifts and snow. Today, we

Bourbon Bijou

Park Kitchen in Portland, Oregon makes a lovely drink they call the Bourbon Bijou. You may recall the Bijou cocktail we posted several years ago which is the inspiration for this

Green Glacier

Here’s a drink we jotted down several years ago while reading about Chartreuse. It’s no secret that this complex herbal elixir is a favorite at Summit Sips—as it is among most cocktail

Naked and Famous

There’s a great passage in the new Death & Co cocktail book that describes the process they use for vetting new additions to the menu. It’s basically an interactive taste test with one