2 oz Lovecraft Hop Flavored Whiskey 1/4 oz Cthulhu Absinthe (as rinse) 1/2 oz Blood Orange Syrup 4 Dashes Scrappy’s Orleans Bitters 2 Dashes Scrappy’s Aromatic Bitters Set aside an Old Fashioned glass filled with ice and water to chill. Once fully chilled, empty the ice and water out of it and rinse the walls of the glass with Absinthe (collect any Absinthe that Spills in the second Old Fashioned Glass). In a second Old fashioned glass, also filled with ice, add the Whiskey, Sugar and Bitters. Give it a stir and strain it into the Absinthe washed glass. Express the oils of a wide Blood Peel. H ..read more

2 1/2 oz. Sagamore Double Oak Rye 1 oz. King’s Ginger rinse St. George Absinthe Stir Rye and Ginger liqueur with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass rinsed with Absinthe.  King Minos, King of Crete sent scores of young men and women into the custom styled labyrinth to be devoured by his son the half bull Minotaur. After his untimely death by the hands of the daughters of King Cocalus in a scalding hot bath he became the Judge of the Dead on their way to Hades with Aeacus and Rhadamanthus. This is the second* in the Cocktails From Hell series inspired by the good folks at Cryptocu ..read more

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

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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

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

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