#218 Cocktail: Pacific Rim Martini

    The cocktail is adapted after a recipe by Ginger DiLello, head bartender at Philadelphia Fish and Company, Philadelphia. The cocktail was created in 1993, but I couldn't find anything about the cocktail's name.
    It is an interesting combination and quite pleasant. The ginger liqueur is used as a sweet component and it gives only a hint of ginger to the gin and it's not bad at all. In the recipe it says that can be used gin or vodka, but as Gaz Regan writes, it is better with gin.

2 1/2 ounces Gin or Vodka

1/2 ounce ginger liqueur

#217 Cocktail: Old San Juan Sour

    The cocktail was created by Gaz Regan in 1997 after he returned from Puerto Rico and, of course, the name comes from one section of San Juan (the capital of Puerto Rico) and the oldest settlement on the island
    For me, the cocktail is a little to sour if you respect the quantities from the recipe. I tried to put less lime juice than in the original one and it was quite delightful

1 1/2 ounce amber rum

1 ounce fresh lime juice

1/2 ounce simple syrup

1/2 ounce cranberry juice

#216 Cocktail: Oatmeal Cookie

     Very tasty cocktail!!!
    Couldn't find any history of for this cocktail and in the book that I have there is only the recommendation that the ratios need to be respected in order for the taste to be the same as an oatmeal cookie. And it is.

1 ounce Baileys Irish Cream

1 ounce butterscotch schnapps

1 ounce Jagermeister

1/2 ounce cinnamon schnapps

#215 Cocktail: New Jersey Squirrel

      One of the many cocktail, Gaz Regan created using the creme de noyau combining it with all the base spirits possible.
       The drink is a little sweet for my taste, but that doesn't mean that it is not full of flavor. The combination of the applejack and the nutty taste of the creme de noyau is quite interesting

1 1/2 ounce applejack

3/4 ounce creme de noyau

3/4 ounce lemon juice

#214 Cocktail: Nelson's Blood

    No idea who invented this cocktail, but the name suggests that it pays an homage to Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson who lost his life in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
    Gaz Regan found out about this fancy drink from a friend of his, Richard Ward, who used to serve this cocktail on a cruise ship in the 1970's

1 1/2 ounce ruby port

4 ounces chilled champagne

#213 Cocktail: Negroni

      While the drink's origins are unknown, the most widely reported account is that it was first mixed in Florence, Italy, in 1919, at Caffè Casoni (formerly Caffè Giacosa), located on Via de' Tornabuoni and now called Caffè Roberto Cavalli. Count Camillo Negroni concocted it by asking the bartender, Fosco Scarselli, to strengthen his favorite cocktail, the Americano, by adding gin rather than the normal soda water. The bartender also added an orange garnish rather than the typical lemon garnish of the Americano to signify that it was a different drink. Since the drink was conceived before the invention of dry gin, the kind of gin used would have likely been barrel aged or Old Tom style.

(Wikipedia)

1 1/2 ounce Gin

1 1/2 ounce Campari

1 1/2 ounce Sweet Vermouth

#212 Cocktail: Mint Julep

       The mint julep originated in the southern United States, probably during the eighteenth century.
       Several aspects of the mint julep combine to mark its provider out as of the elite, beyond the mere ability to offer a drink: firstly, to have ice meant either ownership of an ice house or wealth to buy ice, an expensive commodity in the American south. Second, the traditional silver (not silver-plated) cup is a mark of wealth. Thirdly, one needed a servant to make and serve the drink, a trusty servant who could have access to your ice house, your whiskey, and your silver, a skilled servant who could produce the properly frosted cup.
        The mint julep has been promoted by Churchill Downs in association with the Kentucky Derby since 1938. Each year almost 120,000 juleps are served at Churchill Downs over the two-day period of the Kentucky Oaks and the Kentucky Derby, virtually all of them in specially made Kentucky Derby collectible glasses.

(Wikipedia)

3 ounces bourbon

1 or 2 ounces simple syrup or minted simple syrup