#277 Cocktail: Singapore Sling

      The Singapore Sling is a gin-based cocktail from Singapore. This long drink was developed sometime before 1915 by Ngiam Tong Boon, a Hainanese bartender working at the Long Bar in Raffles Hotel, Singapore. It was initially called the gin sling – a sling was originally a North American drink composed of spirit and water, sweetened and flavored.
        By the 1980s, the Singapore Sling was often little more than gin, bottled sweet and sour, and grenadine. With the move towards fresh juices and the re-emergence of quality products like Cherry Heering, the cocktail has begun to resemble its original version.

2 ounces Beefetaer Gin

3/4 ounce Cherry Heering

1/4 ounce Benedictine

1/2 ounce triple sec

2 ounces pineapple juice

3/4 ounce fresh lime juice

Angostura bitters to taste

club soda

#276 Cocktail: Tequila Sunrise

   The original Tequila Sunrise contained tequila, creme de cassis, lime juice and soda water and was served at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel, where it was created by Gene Sulit in the 1930s or 1940s.
   The more popular modern version of the cocktail contains tequila, orange juice, and grenadine and was created by Bobby Lozoff and Billy Rice in the early 1970s while working as young bartenders at the Trident in Sausalito, California north of San Francisco. In 1972, at a private party at the Trident organized by Bill Graham to kick off the Rolling Stones' 1972 tour in America, Mick Jagger had one of the cocktails, liked it, and he and his entourage started drinking them. They later ordered them all across America, even dubbing the tour itself their "cocaine and tequila sunrise tour".
   At the time, the Trident was the largest outlet for tequila in the United States, and in 1973 Jose Cuervo picked up on the new drink as a marketing opportunity and put the recipe for the new drink on the back of their bottles of tequila, and promoted it in other ways. Later that same year the Eagles recorded a song called "Tequila Sunrise" for their Desperado album as the drink was soaring in popularity.

Wikipedia

2 1/2 ounces Tequila

3 ounces fresh orange juice

splash of grenadine

#275 Cocktail: Sea Breeze

   The cocktail was born in the late 1920s, but the recipe was different from the one used today, as gin and grenadine were used in the original Sea Breeze. This was near the end of the Prohibition era. In the 1930s, a Sea Breeze had gin, apricot brandy, grenadine, and lemon juice. Later, a Sea Breeze recipe would contain vodka, dry vermouth, Galliano, and blue Curaçao.
   The cranberry grower's cooperative in the 1930s evolved into Ocean Spray which marketed cranberry juice in the 1950s. Cranberry juice was used as a mixer with alcohol, first with gin and later with vodka. The Harpoon, later called the Cape Codder, was born, and its descendants such as the Greyhound, the Salty Dog, the Bay Breeze, and the Sea Breeze were later created. Starting in the 1960s, the breeze drinks were sporadically in the top ten most popular mixed drinks.
   According to some, the Sea Breeze, along with the Cape Codder and Bay Breeze, did not become very popular until the 1970s. This was because in 1959, the U.S. Department of Health stated that cranberry crops were tainted with toxic herbicides, collapsing the cranberry industry.

Wikipedia

2 ounces vodka

1 1/2 ounce fresh grapefruit juice

1 1/2 ounce cranberry juice

#274 Cocktails: Southside Fizz

   A beautiful cocktail, taste wise. It's a little like the classic Mojito but with gin as the base alcohol. I can say that it works perfect and it's really refreshing
   From what I saw in the recipe, the soda water can be also replaced by the tonic water or add a little Angostura aromatic bitters enrich the taste. I didn't do it, for I wanted to stick to the classic recipe, but you can try

4 lemon wedges

5-6 fresh mint leaves

2 tablespoons granulated sugar

2 1/2 ounces gin

Soda water 

#273 Cocktail: Stiletto

       Adapted from a recipe by Al Romeo of Anthony's, Huston, Texas.
       The recipe is really interesting for it incorporates the lime in a bourbon cocktail. There are not so many cocktails out there where this combination is used.
       I can tell you that the whole recipe works really well and the drink is really delicious

2 ounces bourbon

1/2 ounce amaretto 

1/2 ounce fresh lime juice

#272 Cocktail: Russian Squirrel

     From the "squirrel" class created by Gaz Regan, comes the Russia squirrel which, of course has as base alcohol......vodka
      Even if seems like an innocent drink, do not be fooled, it has 2 ounces of vodka and can do a little damage.

2 ounces vodka

1/2 ounce creme de noyau

1/2 ounce fresh lime juice

#271 Cocktail: Sloe Gin Fizz

     As the title says, it's just a Fizz cocktail where the base alcohol is sloe gin. Very good and refreshing drink for the hot summer days......even if here is still winter\ early spring
      The cocktail doesn't have known history (at least I didn't find one), so just enjoy it without knowing where it came from

2 1/2 ounces sloe gin

1 ounce fresh lemon juice

1/2 ounce simple syrup