Cognac Cocktails to try out

PALAIS D'ELYSEES
An update of the Champs-Élysées cocktail

1 ounce Pierre Ferrand Ambre Cognac
½ ounce yellow Chartreuse
½ ounce lemon juice
2 ounces Brut Champagne

Combine ingredients in shaker with ice and shake well. Strain and serve in a 5-ounce cocktail glass rimmed with sugaR

LA LOUISIANE
A spinoff of the Cocktail à la Louisiane, made with cognac instead of rye

1 ounce Pierre Ferrand Reserve Cognac
¾ ounce Carpano Antica Formula vermouth
¾ ounce Béesnéesdictine liqueur
Absinthe, to coat glass
Orange peel for garnish

Stir cognac, vermouth and Béesnéesdictine in mixing glass with ice. Rinse a 5-ounce cocktail glass with absinthe and pour out. Strain mixture into absinthe-coated glass and garnish with orange peel

SOUTH OF NO NORTH
Named for Charles Bukowski’s collection of short stories of the same name

1 ounce Bombay dry gin
1 ounce Hennessy VS Cognac
½ ounce St. Elizabeth Allspice Dram rum
½ ounce lemon juice
¼ ounce sugar syrup* or to taste
Orange peel for garnish

*Sugar Syrup (Simple Syrup)
2 cups sugar
2 cups water
In a saucepan, bring water and sugar to a simmer. Continue simmering 2 minutes. Remove and cool 2 hours.

Stir ingredients in a mixing glass with ice. Strain into a small cocktail class and garnish with orange peel.

CHICAGO
A classic cocktail

1 ounce Grand Marnier
1 ounce Hennessy VS Cognac
2 dashes Angostura bitters
2 ounces Brut Champagne
Orange peel for garnish

Stir ingredients in mixing glass with ice. Serve in an old-fashioned glass on the rocks. Garnish with orange peel.

old fashioned japanese lady

a slight summertime variation on the old fashioned
loren made a manhattan, and i wanted an old fashioned next -
we decided to toss in the shiso from dinner. tasty.

• 1 oz. makers mark
• 1 oz. wild turkey rye
• 0.5 oz. simple syrup
• 2 dashes angostura bitters
• small orange wedge
• sour cherry in syrup
• shiso leaf
• orange twist
• splash of soda

muddle small orange wedge, cherry and shiso in an old fashioned glass.
stir bourbon, rye, syrup and bitters in ice.
pour into glass, add 2 ice cubes and a splash of soda water.

Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Another invention from impromptu cocktail night. I remember it being really delicious, but it might have just been the 6 cocktails already residing in my system doing the talking.

• 0.75 oz St. Germain
• 1.5 oz Calvados
• 1 dash Absinthe
• 1 dash Angostura Bitters

Shake and strain, add a lemon twist.

Mumford seemed to like this one.

2 New Old Fashioned Variations

1. Impromptu Cocktail Night Variation

• 2 oz Bulleit Bourbon
• 1 tsp cane sugar
• 2 dashes Fee Brothers Old Fashioned Bitters
• Lemon twist
• Orange twist
• Maraschino cherry

We made this one at Loren's request - he wanted to test out the Fee Brother's Old Fashioned Bitters in a drink that "tastes like Christmas"


2. Clyde Common Variation

• 2 oz Michter's Rye
• Lemon twist
• 1 teaspoon 2-to-1 syrup
• 1 dash angostura bitters

Michter's Rye was awesome as an old fashioned.

Dragon's Blood

Benjamin loved this one. It's totally delicious, but we didn't get the recipe, so we'll have to reverse engineer it.

• Plymouth gin
• Green Chartreuse
• Pedro Ximenez Sherry
• Angostura Bitters
• Absinthe
• Ardbed 10 year scotch float

Apple of Discord

A new favorite, it tastes like a smokey apple.

• 2 oz calvados pays d'auge
• 0.5 teaspoon agave nectar
• 5 dashes Bourdreau's cherry bitters

Shake and strain, mist top of cocktail using a diffuser with del Maguey Santo Domingo mezcal

Angostura "Float"