Death & Glory Tavern
How To Mix Every Cocktail.
Grab your shakers and swizzle sticks - class is back in session! Today on Method Mastery, New York bartender Jeff Solomon shows us how to conjure up almost every cocktail he’s been asked to mix, step by step. Watch as he stirs, shakes, and garnishes his way down the list - then make your next evening cocktail a new adventure.
On The Menu…
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GHOST BOMBER GIN
On January 31st, 1956 a B-25 Mitchell Bomber airplane crashed into the Monongahela River near Pittsburgh, PA igniting one of the city’s most legendary unsolved mysteries. The plane, as tall as the river is deep, vanished overnight. Share a tipple of Ghost Bomber Gin with a Pittsburgh native and no doubt they will share a theory, or two, about what the plane was actually carrying and where the wreckage has settled. Ghost Bomber Gin blends tropical fruit and hibiscus notes with juniper berries and rose hips for a distinctive sipping gin that won’t get lost in classic gin cocktails. (44% Alcohol by Volume / Distilled from grains)
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ABSINTHE ROUGE
1129 Ridge Ave. Absinthe Rouge (69% Alcohol by Volume / Distilled from grapes) is distilled from grapes in small batches with wormwood, green anise, fennel, and hibiscus in a copper alembic still. Brighter floral and citrus flavors are balanced against the traditional herbal ingredients of absinthe. 1129 Ridge Ave Absinthe Rouge is a product that revives the recipe of a lone documented pre-ban red absinthe.
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BACK CREEK WHEAT BOURBON
This grain-to-glass small batch wheated bourbon begins with a complex and highly flavorful seven-grain mash bill. Milled, fermented, distilled and barreled all at Lawrenceville Distilling Co., this bourbon is bottled unfiltered and at cask strength. Extremely limited availability.
“DEATH & GLORY TAVERN” SPECIALS
Smoke, Mirrors
& Colors
Ingredients
1.5 oz of Lawrenceville Parking Chair Vodka
1 oz of dry vermouth
.5 oz of mezcal
Instructions: Add all ingredients to mixing glass; stir. Strain into a coupe glass.
Frankenstein 75
Ingredients
1.5 oz Noilly Prat Extra Dry
.75 oz St-Germain Elderflower Liqueur
.5 oz lemon juice
.25 oz simple syrup
1 dash Lawrenceville Absinthe Rouge
2 oz pear cider
Instruction: Shake all ingredients except cider and strain onto fresh ice. Top with cider.
Live A Life That Outlives You…
Guide to Boston Cocktails
Nautical Cocktails
Port and Starboard
Simple, effective and fast on board a boat. A definite hit in the sailing season. To enjoy a non-alcoholic version or an improved version, see the TIP below.
1 tbsp Grenadine
30 ml menthol liqueur / Creme de Menthe
Pour carefully into a smaller glass so that the green layer is above the red one and don't mix it. More.
Tomorrow We Sail
The intoxicating bubbles of this cocktail make its name all too clear. :)
100 cl sparkling wine or champagne
15 cl port wine
15 cl dark rum
1 tbsp of orange liqueur (e.g. Cointreau, Grand Marnier, Curaçao ...)
Serve in a champagne flute and garnish with a spiral of orange peel. More.
Maritime Martini
Good old-fashioned Martini with a nautical ingredient for those who like a kick.
6 parts gin
2 parts dry vermouth
Olives stuffed with anchovies to finish.
Mix all ingredients with ice. Make sure it’s shaken not stirred. For a nautical kick finish it off with olives stuffed with anchovies. More.
Ocean Mist
This cocktail originated as a tribute to the coast of New England.
1 part tequila
1 part apricot liqueur
1 part lemon juice
Sea salt
Egg white
Mix it up in a shaker and pour into a glass. Then pour over some blue curaçao to create a beautiful effect of sea foam: a blue that turns green with crests of white foam. More.
Iced Carajillo
Ingredients
4 ounces espresso
4 ounces Licor 43
Ice
Lemon peel or orange peel for garnish
Steps
Chill your glasses in the freezer while you make the espresso and get organized.
Make the espresso. Set aside.
Retrieve your chilled glasses and add the ice so it fills the balloon glass halfway. If you have large cube or large ball ice, this would be the time to use it, it would be amazing.
Pour the Licor 43 over the ice and stir.
Next, very slowly pour the coffee over a the back of a spoon and into the glass. The goal should be to form a layer of coffee over the golden Licor 43. Enjoy!
Old Florida Mockingbird
Ingredients
1.5 oz Jamaican or dark rum
1 tsp honey, preferably Tupelo
1 oz cardamon simple syrup
4 oz club soda or sparkling water
Freshly ground black pepper
Cardamon Syrup:
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
1/2 tsp ground cardamon
Steps
Make the simple syrup in a small pot over medium heat. Cook until the sugar is melted. Add ground cardamon. Allow the syrup to steep and cool for about 30 minutes.
Add the rum, syrup and honey to the cocktail shaker. Add ice and gently stir. Pour into an iced filled cocktail glass. Top with sparkling water and a few grinds of black pepper. Garnish with a rosemary sprig.
Key West Legal Rum
North Myrtle Beach
The Home of the Shag
As the Fat Man always said, “You haven’t been to the beach until you have visited Fat Harold’s Beach Club.”
Key Lime Pie… Cocktail
CAN I USE RUM INSTEAD OF VODKA?
If you prefer rum based drinks then you can make a few modifications to this recipe. Instead of using whipped cream vodka, substitute a coconut rum and follow the rest of the recipe. You may even be able to find key lime rum, depending on where you live, and you would then skip the vodka and the lime juice. Try these variations, and don’t be afraid to tweak it by adding more or less of something until you find your perfect drink!
Equipment
Cocktail Shaker
Jigger
Martini glass
Shot glasses
Ingredients
¼ cup pineapple juice
1 ounce fresh lime juice (1 lime)
1 ¼ ounce whipped cream vodka
2 ounces RumChata liqueur
1 to 2 drops green food coloring
Garnish
Graham cracker crumbs
Whipped cream
Lime wedges or wheels
Instructions
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add the pineapple juice, lime juice, whipped cream vodka, RumChata, and green food coloring Secure the lid tightly and shake vigorously until the shaker is cold, about 30 seconds.
Spread some graham crackers crumbs out on a small plate. Run a lime wedge around the rim of a martini glass and dip the rim into the graham cracker crumbs.
Pour the cocktail into the prepared glass. Top with a dollop of whipped cream and sprinkle with additional graham cracker crumbs, if desired. Garnish with a lime wheel and serve immediately.
Notes
You can skip the food coloring if you prefer, but the cocktail will look white and not green in any way.
Surfer on Acid
Serving the Surfer on Acid over ice helps to tame the sweet and herbal flavors, and it produces a lengthier, more sessionable cocktail. The Jägermeister provides plenty of oomph, along with a mildly bitter backbone, while the classic duo of coconut rum and pineapple juice lends fruity sweetness. Using fresh pineapple juice—or the best bottled juice you can find—will add brightness and acidity to the drink, helping to keep the flavors balanced.
The tall, cold cocktail brings ultimate refreshment on a warm day, whether you’re surfing in California or sitting at your favorite bar.
Ingredients
1 ounce Jägermeister
1 ounce coconut rum
1 ounce pineapple juice
Garnish: pineapple wedge
Steps
Add the Jägermeister, coconut rum and pineapple juice into a shaker with ice, and shake until well-chilled.
Strain into a tall glass over fresh ice.
Garnish with a pineapple wedge.
Main Distillery & The Grand Tasting Salon
Their Grand Tasting Salon is located inside our Main Distillery, right off Highway 29 in Napa, CA. Take an Educational Distillery Tour and taste through a flight of their award-winning and locally made spirits. You’ll learn how to properly taste distilled spirits using the secrets of "Booze Yoga" (a Napa Valley Distillery exclusive) in our beautiful Grand Tasting Salon.
2485 Stockton Street, Napa, CA 94559
(707) 226-9269
THE ALLEY.
Off Laurens Street, Aiken, South Carolina
Editor’s Choice.
SMOKED OLD FASHIONED | $17
Elijah Craig Small Batch, Maple Syrup, Aromatic Bitters, Maple Wood Smoke.
Aiken has developed and grown since its inception as a southern haven for northern citizens. It is a charming town that is progressive and growing, while founded in tradition. A community of southern culture welcoming folks from every cardinal direction. Aiken is a community that shares its roads with bicycles, cars, and horses. It is a city that hosts national baseball championships and the sport of kings.
There was no better place to be for a restaurant embracing old world techniques to bring something new and fresh every single day. Taking over 40 years of experience and 100s of years of tradition to create an extensive new specials menu every day.
Downtown is the place to find the best small privately owned businesses and restaurants. You can find pizza, tacos, sushi, wings and more. At Whiskey Alley, you can find something new everyday.
Dark 'n' Stormy
An impressive cocktail that is visually reminiscent of a storm over the ocean, showing the joy and danger that are inseparable at sea.
60 ml dark rum
90 ml ginger beer
15 ml lime juice
Put ice in a tall glass (highball) and pour over the ginger beer. Add lime juice, and then slowly pour in the dark rum so that it remains on the surface. Decorate with a slice of lime. It can also be made the opposite way round, pouring the ginger beer in at the end.
Aprés Ski Boozy Tea (with homemade vanilla maple creamer)
Courtesy of Pineapple & Coconut
Ingredients: For the Boozy Tea
8-10 Black and Orange Pekoe Tea bags
Amaretto
Frangelico
Bailey’s Irish Cream
Kaluha
Vanilla Coffee Creamer
Tea kettle full of water
Sweetened whipping cream - optional
Ingredients: For the Vanilla Coffee Creamer
2 cups heavy cream
⅓ pure maple syrup
Seeds from 2 vanilla bean pods or 1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste
2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions: For the Creamer:
Combine all of the ingredients in a small saucepan and heat until steaming, stirring to combine everything well.
Let cool. Transfer to a glass jar with a lid and keep refrigerated up to 7 days.
Instructions: For the Tea:
Bring the water in the tea kettle to a boil. Add in the tea bags and let steep according to directions.
Fill each mug or glass with ½ - 1 ounce of each of the liquors - more if you want it stronger. Add in the tea and then add in a few teaspoons of the creamer. Top with whipped cream if desired and sip while hot. This is best for large coffee mugs so you don’t end up with a mug of mostly booze. Or, maybe that works too…
History of Stowe Vermont: From 1763 to 1934 | by W. J. Bigelow
To this day, Savannah, Georgia, remains the most haunted city in America--so it can't come as much of a surprise that many of the city's famous restaurants and pubs have a ghost or two of their own still lingering. From the spirits who refuse to let their spectral existence be ignored by patrons or employees to paranormal phenomena which leans more toward the expressively violent . . . these haunted restaurants and pubs are teeming with ghostly lore that can leave you hoping for more or scared out of your wits.
If you're coming to town to take one of their ghost tours, dining in a haunted restaurant is just icing on the cake! Which haunted restaurant or bar will you stop at during your next visit to Savannah?
Spirits & Spirits…
Vanilla Chai Old Fashioned
Courtesy of Half Baked Harvest
Ingredients: Chai Simple Syrup
1/3 cup real maple syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Ingredients: Chai Old Fashion
2 ounces (1/4 cup) bourbon
1 ounce lemon juice
1 dash orange bitters
1-2 ounces (2-4 tablespoons) chai tea syrup
Sparkling water, for topping
Cinnamon and star anise, for serving (optional)
Instructions: Chai Simple Syrup
In a medium pot, bring 1 cup water to a boil. Remove from the heat, add the chai tea bags, cover and steep 10-15 minutes. Remove the tea bags and add the maple. Bring to a boil over high heat. Boil 3-5 minutes, then remove from the heat. Stir in the vanilla. Let cool. Keep in the fridge for up to 2 weeks.
Instructions: Old Fashion
1. In a cocktail shaker, combine the bourbon, lemon juice, orange bitters, and 2 tablespoons of the chai syrup. Shake to combine.
2. Strain into a glass. If desired top with sparkling water. Garnish with cinnamon and star anise.
Redwall Distillery was founded in 2016 by Farshid Paydar and Ron Raimonde. Their friendship, shared love of whiskey, and passion for creating high-quality artisan spirits led them to create genuine true grain-to-glass small-batch premium products.
Since its inception, Redwall Distillery has been dedicated to producing high quality spirits using only the finest ingredients. All products are made at their Sedona distillery, ensuring complete control over the production process from start to finish.
At Redwall Distillery, they take pride in their American Single Malt Whiskey, and Sedona Small Batch Bourbon, which are carefully aged for an unparalleled taste experience. They have over eight thousand gallons in inventory, a testament to their commitment to quality and craftsmanship.
At Rockefellers Raw Bar, they are committed to satisfying each and every customer with great food and excellent service. They offer a wide variety of Crawfish, Scallops, Mussels, Oysters, Crab Legs, Shrimp, Tuna, Lobster, Steaks and much more!
Whatever you're in the mood for, you can find it there! Relax in one of their comfortable captain's chairs and watch the bartender prepare your favorite seafood dishes!
3613 Highway 17 South, North Myrtle Beach, SC 29582
(843) 361-9677
MORE “DEATH & GLORY TAVERN” SPECIALS
Morton’s Candy Corn
Old Fashion
Ingredients
3 dashes of orange bitters
1 orange slice
.5 oz Monin Candy Corn Syrup
2 oz Jack Daniels Whiskey
Instructions: Muddle bitters, orange, and syrup in a large old fashioned glass. Add ice to top of glass and add whiskey. Garnish with 4-5 pieces of candy corn.
From Morton's The Steakhouse in NYC.
The Grave Digger
Ingredients
1.5 oz Tres Agaves Reposado tequila
.5 oz mezcal
.75 oz fino sherry
.5 oz pear liqueur
Instructions: Stir all ingredients and strain over a large ice cube. Garnish with a lemon twist and edible flower.
Created by Masa Urushido.
In the early 1980s while hiking along Oakville’s southwestern ridge, H. William Harlan discovered an isolated territory. The hidden expanse—ancient and untamed—moved him deeply, but remained elusive until the Harlan family finally captured it in 2008. As the second generation explored and worked with the land, they began to make discoveries of their own. At the core of this wild terrain they found a powerful geologic convergence, which had shaped its steep, rugged topography, and created the conditions for an altogether exotic winegrowing environment. Over time they found that the dramatic landscape—just beyond the edge of the known—would slowly change them, and ultimately inspire a new endeavor: Promontory.
PARKING CHAIR VODKA
Parking Chair Vodka (40% Alcohol by Volume / Distilled from grains) This vodka begins life as a French Wheat, Grain Neutral Spirit (GNS), and is redistilled in small batches by hand with a copper old-fashioned pot still. Distilled a total of 6 times, Parking Chair Vodka is finally finished using special proprietary methods. Redistilling lets us focus on finishing a balanced vodka with a smooth finish at a very nice price. Clean, soft, and medium in body.
FINE DINING WITHOUT THE PRETENSE
La Toque is a chef-driven Napa Valley restaurant that celebrates the seasonal, the authentic, and the absolutely delicious. For more than 40 years, Chef Ken Frank’s passion for food and wine has offered guests an elevated wine country experience without pretension or stuffiness. They take pride in how many people — locals from Napa Valley as well as visitors from around the world — return to La Toque for their special occasion meals, year after year.
La Toque is a longtime recipient of the Wine Spectator Grand Award – the world’s highest honor for restaurant wine programs. Their culinary team and sommeliers taste together daily, seeking out exciting new combinations that harmonize and elevate the ultimate Napa Valley experience.
1314 McKinstry Street
Napa, CA 94559
707-257-5157
THE COWBOY CLUB.
VISIT THE COWBOY CLUB
The Cowboy Club (Formerly the Oak Creek Tavern) has been the social center of Sedona for over seventy years. The tavern originally opened in 1946 serving as the meeting place, pool hall, saloon and grocery store to locals and tourists alike. During the 1950s and 1960s, over fifty western movies were filmed in the area. When the day’s shooting was done, the wood walls echoed with the talk and laughter of Hollywood’s biggest stars. Legends like John Wayne, James Stewart, Donna Reed, Robert Mitchum, Burt Lancaster, Rock Hudson, Glen Ford and Joan Crawford were known to enjoy the warm fire and welcoming atmosphere. Even Elvis was said to frequent the tavern while filming 1968’s Stay Away Joe.
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101 Laurens Street NW
Aiken, SC 29801
888-940-7586