Craft cocktail recipes and more
Craft cocktails without the pretension
I make the mistakes. You get the cocktail.
Classic recipes, restaurant recreations, questionable experiments, and cocktails I’ve tinkered with
until they’re actually worth drinking.
WHAT ARE WE DRINKING? ➽
What’s New at the Bar
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The Rhinestone Wrangler
This Rhinestone Cowboy variation adds chocolate mint and Angostura bitters to the bourbon, peach, lemon, and ginger beer original.
And before that…
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The Corpse Reviver #2
Does the legendary Corpse Reviver #2 still deserve its reputation nearly a century later? I recreated Harry Craddock’s original 1930 Savoy recipe using modern ingredients to find out.
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Bourbon Fernet Cocktail (Toronto-Inspired)
A bourbon-based riff on the Toronto cocktail featuring Fernet-Branca, rich demerara syrup, and plenty of herbal complexity.
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The Tortie Cat Bourbon Highball
A refreshing bourbon Campari cocktail with lime and ginger beer that’s equal parts bourbon-forward, bittersweet, and dangerously drinkable.
Hi! I’m Bob! I’m no bartender. I just drink like I have homework.
If it’s got bourbon in it, I’m probably interested. If I have a great cocktail somewhere, I’m probably going to try making it at home.
Sometimes that means recreating a restaurant drink. Sometimes it means digging through a 1930 cocktail book. And sometimes I stare at the bottles in my bar until a questionable idea occurs to me.
Not everything works.
You mostly get the ones that do.
Learn something while you’re drinking
“Far be it from me to tell you what you should and should not do. But to me, there are whiskeys you mix with, and whiskeys you sip and savor.”
