(#CocktailFriday) (from:tomwhoscontrary)

#CocktailFriday. Cognac. Antica Formula. Crème de Cacao. Orange bitters. Can't be bothered with the funny squiggles. Work out the proportions yourself.

After that, another go at a Ryanesque mix on #CocktailFriday: 2℥ Drumshanbo gin, 1℥ Lillet Blanc, ½℥ Glayva, 1♏︎ Abbott's bitters; not awful, but at all right, maybe it's the mixture of fruity and medicinal?

Earlier on #CocktailFriday ... Make a White Lady with St German and that's an Elderly White Lady. Make that with Old Tom gin and that's an Old Tomboy. 3:1:1/3 gin:liqueur:lemon if you're sensible, as usual. Both pretty good!

#CocktailFriday intensifies: 3℥ Mount Gay Eclipse, 1℥ Glayva, 1♏︎ Own Decanter bitters. Quite nice, interestingly spicy, but doesn't make the most of the rum, perhaps?

Drawful plus #CocktailFriday: 3℥ Mount Gay Eclipse, 1℥ Chartreuse MOF, 2♏︎ Elemakule Tiki bitters. Pretty good!

Cargo cult Bolero for #CocktailFriday: 1℥ Worthy Park Reserve, 1℥ Martell VSOP, ¾℥ lime juice (whole half a lime), ½℥ triple sec. Bit amazed you can find anything through the lime, but i don't have tiki-trained tastebuds.

A quarter of a grand's worth of #CocktailFriday ingredients turned up today, so i am throwing together shit at random: 2℥ Cockspur Old Gold, 1℥ Green Chartreuse, ⅓℥ lime juice. Kind of a Daisy de Santiago, or a Chartreuse Daiquiri. Very herbal. More so than with Bénédictine.

#CocktailFriday goes where no soak has gone before: 3℥ Old Simon, ½℥ green Chartreuse, ½℥ triple sec, ½℥ lime cordial. Actually rather nice, but a bit sweet, needs more bite.

For George on #CocktailFriday, put together 1℥ ginger wine, 4℥ Smirnoff Ice, 3♏︎ Elemakule Tiki bitters, and he quite likes that. Those bitters are very different, but good all round.

Refining #CocktailFriday with 2℥ Rutte Old Simon, 1℥ Cinzano Bianco (CLASSY), ½℥ Bénédictine, 1♏︎ Mr Lee's bitters. Rather nice, well rounded, the maltiness of the genever comes through. I want it to be more citrusy, or more punchy somehow. Suze?

Can't lock down #CocktailFriday, where with sanity fast deserting us we mix 2℥ White Rhino new make rye, 1℥ Lillet blanc, ½℥ Glayva, and 2♏︎ Sainsbury's aromatic bitters. I love the combination of white vermouth and smoky spirit, here it's chalky and mineral here.

First #CocktailFriday in a while: 2℥ Rutte Old Simon, 1℥ Yzaguirre Reserva red, ½℥ Bénédictine, 2♏︎ Mr Lee's bitters; aiming at a gin Vieux Carré, basically tastes of vermouth, so not at all unpleasant, but a bit pointless.

Completely forgot i'd bought a bottle of Victory Bitter! #CocktailFriday serendipits a Boulevardier: 2℥ Buffalo Trace, 1℥ Victory Bitter, 1℥ Yzaguirre Reserva red. Less bitter than usual, but really very herbal and savoury. Struggling.

Another spin of the #CocktailFriday wheel: 3℥ Martell Red Barrel, 2℥ crème de cacao, 1℥ blood orange juice, 2♏︎ Elemakule Tiki bitters. I really like this. Definitely sweet, but not cloying. Not noticeably chocolately, though. Blood orange and spice go really well together.

Trying to keep ginger rolling this #CocktailFriday: 3℥ Martell VSOP, ½℥ King's Ginger, ⅓℥ lemon juice, which sadly is grim.

Still pursuing this idea on #CocktailFriday: 2℥ Rutte Old Simon, 1℥ Cinzano Bianco, ½℥ fleur de couscouille, 1♏︎ Mr Lee's bitters. Bit odd.

On #CocktailFriday i give you the Electric Sidecar: 2℥ Révérie VS cognac, ⅔℥ Stellacello, ⅓℥ Suze, ⅓℥ lemon juice. I used crap cognac because i thought it might be grim, but actually, the Suze is subdued, but contributes a bitter tickle after the complex citrusy slap.

It's #CocktailFriday! Inspired by @rnalexander's use of chocolate spirit, mixed 2℥ Martell Red Barrel, 1℥ crème de cacao, ½℥ Yzaguirre Reserva red, 1♏︎ Sainsbury's aromatic bitters. Nice, but too sweet. Think Ryan's stuff is not sweet, which makes it much more practical.