Adrienne Stillman
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Adrienne Stillman is the co-founder, editor-in-chief, and event director of Dipsology, a curated digital guide and online community for cocktail enthusiasts. She also oversees strategy and marketing for wine, spirits, and hospitality clients and is a certified sommelier. A native New Yorker, she lives in Napa Valley, California.
Queens Park Swizzle
If you like mojitos, you’ll like this minty swizzle from the Queen’s Park Hotel in Trinidad. The swizzle is a category of cocktails named for the special bar tool used to mix all crushed-ice cocktails in the days before blenders. A swizzle stick is a long stick made with three to five forked branches originally made from the allspice bush. If you don’t have one, though, you can use a bar spoon to churn the drink with a similar motion, rotating the stick by rubbing your hands back and forth again …
Old Cuban
Audrey Saunders created this sparkly hybrid of a French 75 and a mojito at her bar, New York’s Pegu Club.
Southside
Many unconfirmed reports of this cocktail’s creation exist. Some believe it came from Chicago’s South Side during Prohibition; others think that it comes from the Southside Sportsmen’s Club on Long Island. Manhattan’s 21 Club also claims it as its own creation. There, they serve it long in a Collins glass over ice with a mint spring for garnish.
Garibaldi
This simple two-ingredient cocktail is the ideal brunch or before-dinner drink. Campari gives it a delicate bitterness, while fresh orange juice creates a beautiful froth.
Kentucky Buck
Strawberries shine in this tall, refreshing, gingery cocktail, made with bourbon, fresh lemon, muddled berries, and spicy ginger beer.
Remember the Alimony
This sherry-Cynar Negroni riff was created by bartender Dan Greenbaum at The Beagle in New York City.