#dcdrinks

Clover Club

This is a wonderfully light and zippy cocktail with gin, lemon juice and egg white. I really enjoyed the aromatics of this drink when made with Vitae gin, a rum-based gin from Charlottesville, VA. The color is attractive as well, with white foam and a pink liquid in the glass. Clover Club is one of those illustrious and forgotten clubs of bygone days. Now the cocktail itself is more famous and there is even a cocktail bar in New York that bears the name. Why am I not surprised?

Fancy Whiskey

There's a few "Fancy" themed cocktails that are really close to an Old Fashioned served up. No stirring though, this is a shaken drink. And the portion is a little small for a cocktail glass. I say use a cordial glass like this Sour glass.

Bennett

Not a great cocktail, the Bennett. Much of it has to do with the choice of ingredients, but there's a proportionality issue with this one. Mostly that a half ounce of lime juice and three dashes of Angostura bitters will blow anything out. With that in mind, a dry and powerfully flavored gin would stand up better here.

As it was, I chose the mellow Catoctin Creek Watershed gin. This gin is fine in most circumstances, and I only wonder if it was somewhat at fault here. But the Bennett is itself a tropical drink. Any gin you choose would still just be the base behind the lime and tropical spice of the bitters. So why use gin at all. Rum maybe?

2 oz. gin

1/2 oz. lime juice

1/2 tsp. sugar

3 dashes Angostura bitters

Gin Rickey

The Rickey is a D.C. classic. The Gin Rickey is a little more prevalent as more people are likely to associate gin and lime juice than bourbon and lime juice. Both are good and low sugar drinks that purportedly cool you down on hot days.

2 oz gin

1 oz. lime juice

sparkling water

Southern Bride

It’s lightly pink and a bit like a dress turned upside down. The Southern Bride is lovely and tropical, another one of those southern gin cocktails, whether this is actually a thing or not.

It is like so many other grapefruit and maraschino liqueur cocktails like the previous post. Go with it when you don't have mint to make the Seventh Heaven.

3 oz. gin (Strange Monkey used)

2 oz. grapefruit juice

1 tbsp. maraschino liqueur

Falinum (Smuggler’s Cove Recipe)

There's a beautiful drink in a gorgeous tiki mug. Falinum is a made-up word, I'm thinking. Perhaps it is Falernum spoken with an accent. This cocktail is supposed to show off spicy falernum flavors of cloves, cinnamon, anise and allspice. The recipe calls for an aged, column still rum. Buzzard Point holds up well here--it's a panela sugar rum!