BevX Cocktail List
The Red Lion is a 1930s Gin-based cocktail that is a sour that is sweetened with orange Liqueur, frequently Grand Marnier. It is associated with London’s Café Royal. The recipe for the Red Lion first appeared in print in W. J. (“Billy”) Tarling’s Café Royal Cocktail Book in 1937. In the bo...
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The Pink Lady is a Prohibition-era classic that packs more punch than its pretty pink color suggests. The exact origins are as hazy as this drink, but we do know for certain that it appears in The Bartender’s Book (1951), by Jack Townsend. Recipes vary, but our favorite versions combine London Dry...
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Ada Coleman created the Hanky Panky in the early 1900s for Charles Hawtrey, the English actor and theatrical producer, at the Savoy's American Bar in London. It is one of the most important cocktails in the history of women in bartending — Coleman was among the first female head bartenders at a ma...
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The Buck is one of the oldest cocktail templates and one of the least-discussed today, which is a genuine oversight. Spirit plus citrus plus ginger ale — it is as simple as it sounds and as refreshing as you'd hope. The Gin Buck is the template at its finest: a quality London Dry Gin anchored by f...
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The 20th Century Cocktail was created by C.A. Tuck in London in 1937 and named for the luxury New York Central Railroad train. It is a Gin cocktail with an improbable ingredient combination — Lillet Blanc and Crème de Cacao alongside gin and lemon — and it tastes like a revelation. The chocolat...
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The Clover Club cocktail can be traced back to the late 1800s and Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford hotel. This popular hangout drew crowds of writers, artists, and politicians who enjoyed the drink that eventually took the hotel's name for its private club room. Like many Prohibition-era favorit...
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The Last Word is a Prohibition-era classic that spent decades in obscurity before being revived at Seattle's Zig Zag Café in 2004. It is a precise, equal-parts exercise in balance — tart, herbal, sweet, and botanical all at once — and one of the most influential cocktails of the modern craft co...
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The Gin Rickey was named after Joe Rickey, a Democratic lobbyist living in Washington, D.C., during the late 19th century. It was actually a Bourbon Rickey that came first when Rickey instructed a bartender at Shoomaker’s bar to add some lime to his usual order of Bourbon and soda. Walla! The Bour...
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This classic drink has been a staple in cocktail recipe books for well over a century. The simple, but tasty "Collins" treatment of adding a fresh lemon and sugar to a spirit of choice will provide many happy cocktail hours at your home bar. Please promise never to buy those horrible, insipid Collin...
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The classic Tom Collins has been a staple in cocktail recipe books for well over a century. It proves that less can be more when presented in perfect balance. The Waterloo Prickly Pear Collins is a perfect riff on the classic, with this Gin being truly elite, delivering both familiar and unfamiliar...
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It's believed that this drink was created to protect sailors from scurvy giving a needed vitamin C boost via limejuice.
The drink can be found in cocktail books from the 1930s, where it was most commonly made with lime cordial — aka Rose's Lime. Rose's Lime is not a product that BevX can e...
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The Delmonico is a classic cocktail that is over 100 years old, made at the now famous Delmonico Steak House in New York City. It depends on a careful balance of unique spirits that you might not normally combine. It’s not flashy, but it can be considered exotic, with both sweet and dry Vermouth p...
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At BevX we have a penchant for classic cocktails that have evolved or perhaps even have become corrupted in some way through the years. The Singapore Sling is certainly one of those cocktails. Invented in the Raffles Hotel, Singapore sometime around 1910 to 1915, the original Singapore Sling loo...
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This classic cocktail has the dubious reputation of being among the most potent cocktails ever created. The crisp and refreshing combination of Gin, sparkling wine, and lemon passes the lips with ease but can certainly leave your head in the clouds. The unique name is said to be homage to the Fre...
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Caorunn, the great Scottish Gin, has shared this festive recipe with us. It's a great way to still be refreshed by the classic Gin and Tonic while also sipping a bit of holiday cheer with the addition of rich, brown spices. This is a great holiday party cocktail that is easy to make while being e...
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