Caribbean Corpse Reviver

Good stuff! Found this one on one of my daily pilgrimages to the temple of cocktail exploration, the Cocktail Virgin Slut blog. Click here to learn more about it and check out the recipe.

Eeyore's Requiem

Toby Maloney's ode to the donkey with the blues is one of my favorite drinks. Pleasantly bitter, just like it's namesake, with Cynar tying in the thistles he loves (as long as they're not broken). The recipe I had when I first tried this called for 2 oz Campari and no gin but all of the more recent versions I've seen are as below. It's tasty either way in my opinion.



1 1/2 oz Campari
1 oz Martini Bianco vermouth (the recipe calls for Dolin but that's not available where I live)
1/2 oz Tanqueray gin
1/2 oz Cynar
1/4 oz Fernet Branca
15 drops orange bitters (I used Twisted & Bitter)

Stir with ice, strain into glass, twist 3 pieces orange peel over glass.

Nelson's Blood

The recipe...

2 oz dark rum
1/4 lemon, squeezed
1/4 orange, squeezed
1/4 oz lemon juice
1/4 oz blood orange juice
1/4 oz brandy
1/4 oz falernum
2 oz ginger beer


What I did...

2 oz Doorly's XO rum
3/4 oz blood orange juice
1/2 oz lemon juice
1/4 oz E&J VSOP brandy
1/4 oz falernum
2 oz ginger beer

So basically I just went with all blood orange, which isn't specified in the recipe, because that made more sense to me than squeezing a little juice out of two oranges. Correct or not, it was tasty.