El Duque
Rum stands in for bourbon and sherry for sweet vermouth in this coffee-inflected Manhattan.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger
Café du Maine
At No. 9 Park in Boston, Ted Kilpatrick served this coffee-flavored drink with fresh espresso and cognac in the style of an Espresso Martini.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger
Mexico, ME
A tequila Old-Fashioned spiked with mezcal and coffee-flavored brandy.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger
Samarian Sunset
Reinterpreted for mere humans from Star Trek, Natasha David's Tequila Sunrise variation gets its color from a splash of bottom-floating Campari.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- illustration: Sayada Ramdial
Black Yukon Sucker Punch
In the 1990s television show Twin Peaks, Agent Cooper encounters local specialty, the Black Yukon Sucker Punch: A split-level drink with a tar-colored bottom and a foamy, blue upper.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Sayada Ramdial
Leo’s Coffee
A bitter relative of the Espresso Martini from Andrew Volk of Portland Hunt + Alpine Club.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
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McIntosh
This combination of malty genever, apple purée, sweet pecan-brandy syrup and IPA alludes to the longstanding Dutch beer-and-genever-shot ritual, kopstootje (literally, “little headbutt").
- story: Bianca Prum
- photo: Lizzie Munro
Picon Punch
At San Francisco's 15 Romolo, formerly a Basque restaurant from the 1940s until the 1990s, Andrew Meltzer makes the traditional Basque Picon Punch in ode to the bar's previous life.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
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The Black Pearl’s Espresso Martini
The Espresso Martini was created by Dick Bradsell at Fred’s Club in the late 1980s, when a young model, who Bradsell claims is now world famous, sidled up to the…
- story: Talia Baiocchi
- photo: Fred Siggins