Category: Cocktail Recipes

The BLUE BLAZER cocktail was made popular by legendary barman professor Jerry Thomas at the El Dorado Saloon prior to 1862. The Blue Blazer is credited as the original ‘flaming cocktail’. Enjoy one tonight!!

BLUE BLAZER

4 oz Macallan 10 Year Cask Strength Single Malt Scotch whisky

2 oz hot water

2 oz demerara sugar syrup

Long wooden match

Glassware: 2 metal blazer mugs

Garnish: 2 lemon peels

Method: Combine the whisky, hot water, syrup, and lemon peel garnishes in 1 of the blazer mugs. Use the match to set the contents of the mug alight and slowly pour the contents of the mug into the other mug, about 2 to 3 feet apart. Make a show of it, but take great care not to spill any. Extinguish the flame in 1 of the mugs by placing the other mug on top of it. Repeat with the other mug and serve.

*Note: Working with flaming drinks is dangerous. Proceed at your own risk. Practice the technique with water before making this drink and have a fire extinguisher nearby in case of a spill.

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Until our next cocktail together…

Bottoms up!

Brian Van Flandern

www.MyMixologist.com

Fat washed cocktails are hardly new, but when done properly a bacon fat washed cocktail is absolutely delicious. Try this recipe and let me know what you think!

BACON & EGGS MARTINI

1½ oz Jack Daniels Single Barrel Select bourbon with bacon fat wash

1 oz freshly squeezed lemon juice

1½ oz maple syrup

1 egg white

Glassware: Martini

Garnish: Bacon strip, poached quail egg

Method: Fat wash the whiskey—Add 3 strips of cooked bacon to the bottle of whiskey and set aside for 2 hours.

Remove and reserve the bacon and refrigerate the whiskey for 3 hours.

Skim off and discard the fat from the top of the whiskey or filter it through cheesecloth.

Combine all ingredients in a mixing tin. Dry shake the tin with the strainer coil. Add large cubes of ice, shake vigorously, and taste for balance. Strain into the serving glass, garnish (using the reserved bacon strip), and serve.

History: Original Created at The London Cocktail Club

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Here is one of my favorite “goto” cocktails. Enjoy one tonight!

Boulevardier Recipe:

1 oz. Bulleit rye whiskey

1½ oz. Carpano Antica Formula sweet vermouth

½ oz. Campari

Glassware: Rocks or Coupe

Garnish: Orange twist

Method: Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass. Add large cubes of ice, stir thoroughly, and taste for balance. Strain into the serving glass, garnish, and serve.

History: The famous Boulevardier cocktail became popular around 1927 at Harry’s New York Bar in Paris, France in the midst of American prohibition. While it is often considered a Negroni, made with Bourbon instead of Gin, it is important to note that the recipe first appeared in print 20 years before the Negroni. It was the signature cocktail of Erskine Gwynee who named the cocktail after his monthly periodical, widely distributed throughout Paris.

Until our next cocktail together…

Bottoms up!

Brian Van Flandern

www.MyMixologist.com