The Drunken Helmsman cocktail is an original Tiki cocktail created by Jason Alexander of Tacoma Cabana in Tacoma, USA. When you try the cocktail for the first time, you will be amazed by the flavours and unusual ingredients. After a few of these, you’ll also have a hard time steering in the right direction.
INGREDIENTS
45 ml/ 1 ½ oz. overproof aged Rum
15 ml/ ½ oz. Amoro Nonino
15 ml/ ½ oz. Falernum
30 ml/ 1 oz. freshly squeezed lemon juice
15 ml/ ½ oz. maple syrup
METHOD
Add all ingredients into a shaker with ice and shake.
Strain into glass filles with crushed ice.
Garnish with an orange wedge and mint sprig bouquet.
The Adios MF cocktail contains Vodka, Rum, Gin, Tequila and Blue Curaçao, making it a drink guaranteed to get you drunk in the best way possible. It’s a very potent cocktail, it’s electric blue in appearance and it’s often recommended as the go-to 21st birthday cocktail recipe. The name oft he cocktail was established in the late 20th century, when shocking cocktail names were popular.
INGREDIENTS
30 ml/ 1 oz. Vodka
30 ml/ 1 oz. Rum
30 ml/ 1 oz. Gin
30 ml/ 1 oz. Tequila
60 ml/ 2 oz. Sweet & Sour Mix
30 ml/ 1 oz. Blue Curaçao
30 ml/ 1 oz. Sprite or 7up, to top
METHOD
Fill a glass with ice.
Pour in Vodka, Rum, Gin, Tequila, Sweet & Sour Mix and Blue Curaçao liqueur.
Stir to mix.
Top with Sprite or 7Up.
Garnish with a lemon slice and a cherry.
NOTES
The Adios MF is also named as the Adios Motherfucker, Adios Mother Fucker, Blue Motherfucker, Blue Long Island Iced Tea, Blue Motorcycle, the AMF cocktail, the AMF drink or just the AMF.
The 100 Year Old Cigar Cocktail has a broader appeal when served on-the-rocks in an old-fashioned glass, either way it tastes like a cigar in my opinion. So if you enjoy smoking a cigar, you might like this cocktail as well.
INGREDIENTS
5 ml/ ⅙ oz. Absinthe
50 ml/ 1 ⅔ oz. Havana Club 7 Year Old rum
15 ml/ ½ oz. Bénédictine
15 ml/ ½ oz. Cynar
5 ml/ ⅙ oz. Scotch Whisky
1 dash of Angostura Bitters
METHOD
Rinse chilled glass with Absinthe and set to one side.
The China Blue cocktail was emerged in Japan in the late 1990s and is still popular along the Pacific Rim. The cocktail looks sweet, but due to a generous splash of grapefruit is actually balanced and refreshing.
The cocktail Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said is named after science fiction novel of the same name of the year 1974 by American writer Philip K. Dick. The novel is set in a futuristic dystopia where the United States has become a police state in the aftermath of a Second American Civil War. The story follows genetically enhanced pop singer and television star Jason Taverner who wakes up in a world where he has never existed. If that’s too complicated for you, the cocktail definitely exists.
INGREDIENTS
60 ml/ 2 oz. light Rum
20 ml/ ⅔ oz. Apricot Brandy
20 ml/ ⅔ oz. Green Chartreuse
15 ml/ ½ oz. freshly squeezed lime juice
METHOD
Pour all ingredients into shaker with ice cubes.
Shake well.
Strain into chilled cocktail glass.
Garnish with an apricot wedge.
NOTES
Green Chartreuse (55% alcohol) is the original 1737 green liqueur, made from the 1605 recipe by Chartreuse Monks even today. The colour chartreuse is named after this liqueur.
Yellow Chartreuse (40% alcohol) was introduced in the 1800’s and is a milder, sweeter flavour and aroma than it’s older brother.
The Appletini, also known as the Apple Martini, is an apple-flavored cocktail. It became popular in the 1990s when, alongside the Cosmopolitan, numerous fruity short drinks became fashionable, many of which had the word “Martini” in their names. Like their role model, the classic Martini cocktail, they are served in a Y-shaped glassbut have little in common with a real Martini in terms of taste and ingredients.
INGREDIENTS
45 ml/ 1½ oz. Absolut Vodka
20 ml/ ⅔ oz. Calvados
25 ml/ ¾ oz. freshly squeezed lemon juice
20 ml/ ⅔ oz apple juice
20 ml/ ⅔ oz sugar syrup
METHOD
Pour all ingredients into shaker with ice cubes.
Shake well.
Fine strain into chilled cocktail glass.
Garnish with an apple slice.
NOTES
The Appletini is the favorite drink of protagonist John “J.D.” Dorian in the TV series Scrubs, who ironically mistakes it for a hard drink and ordered him “with less Martini”. Alan Harper and Walden Schmidt from Two and a Half Men and Ted Mosby from How I Met Your Mother also drink it occasionally. In the King of Queens episode “Happy Hour,” Leah Remini as Carrie Heffernan enjoys some Appletini after work.
The Alkohol-free cocktail Pussyfoot was created in 1920 by Robert Vermeire at the Embassy Club, London, England. This non-alcoholic cocktail is named after ‘Pussyfoot’ (William E.) Johnson, who was an fervent supporter of Prohibition.
INGREDIENTS
120 ml/ 4 oz. freshly squeezed orange juice
15 ml/ ½ oz. freshly squeezed lemon juice
15 ml/ ½ oz. freshly squeezed lime juice
15 ml/ ½ oz. Grenadine syrup
1 fresh egg yolk
7 fresh mint leaves
METHOD
Pour all ingredients into a shaker filled with ice cubes.
Shake and strain back into shaker.
Now dry shake (without ice) and fine strain into ice-filled glass.
Garnish with an orange slice.
NOTES
Many people have asked me about non-alcoholic cocktail recipes. And in my opinion, the Pussyfoot is one of the better tasting non-alcoholic cocktails.
The Woo Woo cocktail is a fruity American cocktail which is considered a mix between Cosmopolitan and Fuzzy Navel. It is made with vodka, peach schnapps and cranberry juice. Although Woo Woo is a popular cocktail, its origins are still somewhat murky, but many believe that it was invented in a (now closed) First Edition bar in Bayside, New York.
INGREDIENTS
30 ml/ 1 oz. Vodka
15 ml/ ½ oz. Peachtree peach schnapps
60 ml/ 2 oz. cranberry juice
METHOD
Add all ingredients into a shaker with ice and shake.
The Ono Cocktail is a cocktail made with beer. Opinions differ on whether to pour beer into cocktails. But my Astra salesman Jan emailed me this great recipe. The Hamburg Astra beer, mixed with cranberry juice and French Calvados, results in a very refreshing cocktail that you should definitely try. After that, one can only say: Yes, beer is good in sparkling cocktails.
INGREDIENTS
60 ml/ 2 oz. Astra Urtyp German beer
60 ml/ 2 oz. cranberry juice
10 ml/ ⅓ oz. Calvados
METHOD
Pour Calvados and cranberry juice into mixing glass with ice cubes and stir well.
Top with Astra Urtyp beer and serve.
NOTES
Astra is a German beer brand. It belongs to the Holsten brewery, which in turn is a subsidiary of the Danish brewery Carlsberg.
