Showing posts with label rob roy riff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rob roy riff. Show all posts

Monday, September 3, 2018

161. Hamilton Cocktail


My interpretation:
  1.5 oz Dubonnet
  0.5 oz The Famous Grouse

Stir with broken ice, strain into cocktail glass, serve. — This cocktail, nowadays known as a Rob Roy (esp. with bitters and a cherry), first appears under this name in JM 1910s (Third Edition). The bitters and cherry and not necessary. There is a Hamilton in the Lowlands of Scotland, which leads us to conclude that perhaps a Scotch of that area, such as Auchentoshan, might be most appropriate.
 

Friday, August 3, 2018

130. Express Cocktail


My interpretation:
  1 oz The Famous Grouse
  1 oz Dolin Rouge
  1 dash Regan’s Orange Bitters

Shake with ice, strain into cocktail glass, serve. — This Rob Roy riff, substituting orange bitters for angostura, appears in Straub 1913, from whence it is borrowed by JM 1916.
 

Turning the Page

Greetings! We have come to the end of the Cocktails section from Jack’s Manual (1933). In the process of our study, we have discovered so...