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The cocktail library

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  Gin Rickey

  Gin, lime juice and soda water, built over ice in a tall glass.

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  Mojito

  Rum, lime, sugar, mint and soda water, built in a tall glass.

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  Adonis

  A stirred aperitif of sherry, sweet vermouth and orange bitters.

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  Cable Car

  Tony Abou-Ganim's shaken drink of spiced rum, lemon and curaçao, served in a cinnamon-sugar-rimmed cocktail glass.

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  The Sazerac

  A stirred drink strained into an absinthe-rinsed glass and finished with lemon zest, in two published versions.

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  Lost Lake

  Paul McGee's house drink at Lost Lake in Chicago.

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  Spicy Negroni

  Campari, chile liqueur and mezcal in equal parts.

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  Right Hand

  A stirred aged-rum, sweet vermouth and Campari cocktail from Milk & Honey.

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  Monte Cassino

  Two unrelated cocktails share this name: a shaken rye-and-Bénédictine sour and a stirred Campari drink served over ice.

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  Newark Cocktail

  PDT's apple brandy riff on the Brooklyn, stirred with sweet vermouth, Fernet Branca and maraschino.

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  Comet cocktail

  Two unrelated drinks share the name: a 1952 brandy and grapefruit drink and a 1937 stirred gin and Lillet cocktail.

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  Artichoke Hold

  Two different cocktails carry this name: a crushed-ice rum drink and a stirred bourbon drink.

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  Metexa

  A stirred aperitif of Cocchi Americano, blanco tequila and Swedish punsch.

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  Easy Street

  Two different gin cocktails published under one name.

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  Fort Point

  A stirred rye cocktail with two published recipes.

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  Floradora

  Gin, lime and raspberry syrup, lengthened with ginger.

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  Royal Hawaiian

  A shaken gin cocktail with pineapple, lemon and orgeat.

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  Banana Spider

  Kirk Estopinal's banana-liqueur riff on the Pisco Sour, from Cane & Table in New Orleans.

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  Forbidden Fruit

  Two different cocktails share this name: a gin, Campari and passion fruit drink with egg white, and a Calvados and blanc vermouth drink with orgeat and lime.

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  London Cocktail

  Gin, orange juice and simple syrup, shaken and strained over a Ricard rinse.

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  French Martini

  Vodka, raspberry liqueur and fresh pineapple juice, shaken and finished with lemon oil.

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  Lust for Life

  Joaquín Simó's shaken mezcal and palo cortado sherry drink from Pouring Ribbons in New York.

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  Grand Margarita

  Tequila, Grand Marnier and fresh lime, shaken and strained into a rocks glass.

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  Montana Daiquiri

  The house Daiquiri at Montana in Hong Kong, shaken and finished with a framboise float.

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  Alfonso

  A Champagne Cocktail with red quinquina, built in the glass.

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  American Trilogy

  A rye and bonded applejack Old Fashioned from Little Branch, built on a muddled brown sugar cube.

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  Grapefruit Negroni

  Campari, gin and sweet vermouth in equal measures, stirred with fresh grapefruit juice.

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  Whiskey Sour

  Bourbon, lemon juice and sugar syrup, shaken. Three published versions.

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  High Noon

  Naren Young's shaken tequila, triple sec, Campari and pink grapefruit cocktail, served up.

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  Pago Pago

  Rum, green Chartreuse, pineapple and lime in two published builds, plus a 1945 brandy drink with the same name.

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  White Witch

  A swizzled rum highball with lime, white crème de cacao and soda, in Ezra Star's version.

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  Alcazer

  A stirred rye whiskey, Cointreau and Fernet Branca cocktail based on a recipe in Pioneers of Mixing at Elite Bars 1903-1933.

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  Rum Mule

  Rum and ginger beer over ice, in two published versions.

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  Aku Aku

  A blended rum, peach liqueur, pineapple and mint drink adapted from Trader Vic's 1972 Bartender's Guide.

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  Ragtime Cocktail

  A stirred drink of rye, Ramazzotti and Aperol with Peychaud's bitters and a touch of absinthe.

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  South Side

  A shaken gin sour with mint, in two published versions.

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  1910

  A stirred mezcal drink with Punt e Mes, maraschino liqueur and Peychaud's bitters, from Drink in Boston.

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  Big Chief

  A stirred bourbon cocktail with Averna and Punt e Mes, finished with an orange peel.

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  Golden Glove

  A blended rum Daiquiri with a teaspoon of Cointreau, in two published versions.

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  Long Look Back

  Kacie Lambert's vermouth-free Manhattan riff on rye, Japanese whisky and Braulio, built over one large cube.

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  Autumn Negroni

  A gin-led, stirred Negroni variation that splits its bitterness between Campari, Cynar and Fernet.

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  Cardinale

  A stirred drink of gin, dry vermouth and Campari, published in two clearly different proportions.

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  Hoji-Tea Negroni

  A stirred Campari recipe built on hoji tea–infused gin, with coffee liqueur, chocolate bitters and a melted chocolate garnish.

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  A Moment of Silence

  A stirred rye drink with apricot liqueur, Averna and a measured half ounce of Angostura, served in a rocks glass with a Campari rinse.

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  American Negroni

  A bourbon drink built over ice in a rocks glass, with Aperol and Campari sharing the bitter measure.

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  Summer Negroni

  Wolfgang Puck Catering's equal-parts batch Negroni built from three infused bases and served over ice.

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  Holy Negroni

  Dunnet Bay Distillers' equal-parts Negroni with Holy Grass Vodka in place of gin.

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  Amen Corner

  A shaken bourbon, Aperol, Amaro Nonino and mint drink, plus a different stirred cocktail that shares the name.

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