1 1/2 oz Empress Gin 3/4 oz Averna Amaro 1/4 oz Crème de Violette 1/4 oz La Clandestine Absinthe Stir everything with ice and strain into a chilled Cocktail glass. Garnish with a Lemon twist. Here is another addition to my list of Blackened Cocktails, where we take a traditional cocktail and swap out the boring old Vermouth for some nice, spicy Averna. Don’t get me wrong, I love a nice fortified wine, but I never drink enough to finish a bottle before it spoils. With no company over here in the dust laden Green Jenkin’s Walk In Closet Home Bar for nearly a year now due to this wretched pandemi ..read more

1 1/2 oz Rittenhouse Rye (Bottled in Bond) 1 oz Cynar 1/4 oz Kins’s Ginger Liqueur 1/4 oz Lemon Juice 1/4 oz Lime Juice rinse La Clandestine Absinthe Rinse a chilled Old Fashioned glass with absinthe. Shake remaining ingredients with ice and strain into the Absinthe rinsed glass. In honor of the  year in Hell behind us, and in anticipation for the Year in Hell before us, I’ve made a new Category on the site: COCKTAILS FROM HELL! I’ve had a vague idea of doing this for a few years now and I’ll post more about it in the very near future. This newest inspiration, however, was from my friend ..read more

1 ½ oz. Rye Whiskey 2 oz. Hot Earl Grey Tea 2 oz. Apple Cider mulled in Cinnamon, Clove, and Allspice ½ oz. Maple Syrup ¼ oz. Pimento Dram 3-4 dashes Cranberry Bitters Steep the Tea, Mull the Cider, then add everything to a warm mug. Stir and garnish with a Cinnamon stick. With the world as it is these days under the pandemic, with officials setting up holiday lockdowns, I’m going to refrain from a BS post about what to be thankful for as it would feel forced and disingenuous. So, here is a very pleasant, warm drink for the holidays that I’m planning on scaling up to about a gallon when I do v ..read more

                                                                      Tricky Treats 1 1/2 oz El Maestro PX Sherry 1 oz Averna Amaro 2 dashes Fee Brothers Rhubarb Bitters (+ 1 for garnish) 1 1/2 oz Crabbie’s Ginger Beer Stir first three ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled Flute. Top with Ginger Beer and garnish with a Lemon peel and another dash of bitters. For this final drink for the Halloween season ..read more

1 1/2 oz Lovecraft Hop Flavored Whiskey 3/4 oz Amaro Averna 1/4 oz Absinthe Brevans A. Crowley 2 dashes Chartreuse Elixir Vegetal de la Grande Dehydrated Lemon Wheel Coat a chilled Champagne Flute with the Absinthe and retain in the glass. Stir Whiskey and Amaro with frozen Dihydrogen Monoxide and aliquot the fluid into the rinsed Champagne Flute. Titrate the Elixir over top and garnish with the Lemon Wheel. In honor of my appointment as Professor of Esoteric Chemistry at my old alma mater, Miskatonic University, through my esteemed membership in the Cryptocurium Inner Sanctum, I have put tog ..read more

1 1/2 oz Green Chartreuse 1/2 oz Butterfly Boston Absinthe 1/2 Eddy Mint Julep Syrup Build drink in some labware half filled with crushed ice and give it a stir with a proper cGMP stirring rod. Fill to brim with more crushed ice and garnish with a bunch of mint. Feel the life surge back into your recently deceased cadaver and pray the pain ends soon. “If it’s not West, it’s not the Best” –@lovecrafttapes As mentioned in my previous post, the Garden Fizz, the bundle picked up from The Eddy this week came with a Mint Julep set. This consisted of a huge wad of Mint Leaves and some handmade Mint S ..read more

Yellow King by Horror In Clay 1 oz Kraken Spiced Rum 1 oz Plantation Original Dark Rum 1/2 oz Thatcher’s Blood Orange Liqueur 1 oz Eddy Bar Mai Tai mixer* 1/4 oz Eddy Bar Falernum 2-3 dashes La Clandestine Absinthe Shake everything with ice and strain into a Mai Tai glass filled with crushed ice. Garnish with pretty things. *in lieu of this specific mixer, swap it for 1/2 oz Lime Juice and 1/2 oz Orgeat. FYI, most other Mai Tai mixes are fucking horrible and should be shunned for the syrupy shite they are. Yellow King by Cryptocurium Along the shore the cloud waves break, The twin suns s ..read more

2 oz Empress Gin 1 oz Blood Orange Juice ¼ oz Blood Orange Syrup Lucid Absinthe rinse Shake Gin and Juice with ice and strain into an Absinthe rinsed Coupe glass. Top with the dripping, red syrup and garnish with twin Blood Orange wheels. I’m adding a new drink to my list of Cocktails From Beyond and dedicating it to the release of the Soska Sisters‘ newest film, Rabid, a remake of the 1977 film by the master of body horror, David Cronenberg. Many of their earlier films, most notably American Mary, call back to that Canadian genius in a Grindhouse Cronenberg kinda way and I’m psyched to see wh ..read more

2 oz. Elijah Craig Small Batch 1/2 oz. Averna 2-3 dashes Dale DeGroff’s Pimento Aromatic Bitters Lucid Absinthe Wash   Stir first 3 ingredients with ice and strain into an Absinthe washed coup glass.   The Black Christmas is a drink 2 steps from a Manhattan named after the classic holiday slasher film of the same name that has 2 highly unnecessary remakes. Luckily, this remake is quite tasty and fills me with bloody holiday joy.   I made this Manhattan variation for the family Christmas gathering this year and I’ll end the year with one for myself. What started as a Black Manhat ..read more

2 oz London No. 1 Gin 1/4 oz Blue Curaçao 1 bsp Simple Syrup 1-2 dashes Hella Bitters Ginger Lemon rinse Lucid Absinthe Stir first four ingredients with ice and strain into an Absinthe rinsed Old Fashioned glass. Finish with a Lemon Twist, discarding the peel after. Will the Cube to make you a part of—and therefore in control of—everything. A new addition to my Cocktails from Beyond! “I’ve seen worlds you’ve never known about! I have grown, Odin’s Son, in my exile! I have seen the true power of the Tesseract” – Loki This is one I’ve been meaning to get to for a while now. Whenever I hav ..read more