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A Sazerac Recipe for Cheap Dates

As usual, the Bitter Southerner is making drinking look good. We've got cocktail envy for their BS No. 3 by Atlanta bartender Paul Calvert of Paper Plane. A play on…

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Americano

The bittersweet and bubbly original.

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Old Hickory

Maxwell Britten's interpretation of the obscure New Orleans cocktail.

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Negroni

Like all good stories should, the one about the Negroni’s origin involves rakish Italian nobility. Most accounts credit the recipe to one Count Negroni, a swashbuckling proto-boho.

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Kingston Negroni

Within five minutes of receiving a bottle of Smith & Cross Jamaican rum NYC bartender Joaquín Simó had created this riff on the Negroni.

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Rhythm and Soul

The Rhythm and Soul is Greg Best’s composite sketch of a Manhattan and a Sazerac, as if the cocktails got into a tussle, made up and had a love child.

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Rob Roy

The first-known mentions of the Rob Roy credit New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel for the 1897 recipe, which is essentially a Manhattan made with Scotch whisky.

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Manhattan

One of the enduring heavyweights in the cocktail world, the Manhattan is something of a twist on the Old Fashioned, most likely spurred by the late-19th century rise of sweet…

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Breakfast

Akin to a Negroni or a Boulevardier, this cocktail is essentially "breakfast encapsulated," says the drink’s creator, Aaron Polsky of NYC's Amor y Amargo.