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Written by the famed bartender and founder of New York City’s legendary P.D.T Jim Meehan, the pages pull from Meehan’s experience creating cocktails. This is best detailed in the comprehensive cocktail section: For each classic cocktail (including many you’ve never heard of), Meehan breaks down the origin, the logic behind the drink,. The Classic Bartender. Recreate your bar with a touch of classic style, and strengthen its performance with quality products.

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• Bundaberg Ginger Beer
  1 1/2 oz. Caribbean Rum
  1/2 oz. lime juice
  1/3 oz. sugar syrup
  Muddle ginger and combine ingredients in a shaker, shake and strain into a copper mug. Top with Bundaberg Ginger Beer.
• 1 2/3 oz. Light Bacardi
  4 oz. Cola
  1/3 oz. Fresh lime juice (optional)
  Build all ingredients in a highball glass filled with ice. Garnish with lime wedge.
• 1/3 oz. Absinthe
  1 3/4 oz. cognac
  one sugar cube
  3 dashes Peychaud's Bitters
  Rye whiskey
  Rinse a chilled old-fashioned glass with absinthe, add crushed ice and set it aside. Stir the remaining ingredients over ice and set it aside. Discard the ice and any excess absinthe from the prepared glass, strain the drink. Add lemon peel for garnish.
• 2 oz. Cucumber infused Vodka
  3/4 oz. Basil infused Agave Syrup
  3/4 oz. Fresh Cucumber Juice
  1/4 oz. Fresh Lime Juice
  3 Basil Leaves
  Add all ingredients to ice filled shaker, shake and strain to martini glass. Cucumber wheel garnish.
  Christina D'Orta
  Ninety Acres Culinary Center
  Peapack, NJ
• 1 1/2 oz. Bourbon or Rye whiskey
  2 dashes bitters
  1 sugar cube
  Few dashes water
  Place sugar cube in old fashioned glass and saturate with bitters, add a dash of water. Muddle until dissolved. Fill the glass with ice cubes and add whiskey. Garnish with orange slice, and a cherry.
• 1 (750-ml) bottle your favorite red wine
  1/2 cup brandy
  1/2 cup orange liqueur
  1/2 cup orange juice
  1/4 cup granulated sugar
  2 cups orange wedges
  2 cups red apple wedges
  2 cups green apple wedges
  2 cups seedless green grapes
  Combine the wine, brandy, orange liqueur, orange juice, and sugar in a large 4-quart container or punch bowl and stir until the sugar has dissolved. Add all of the fruit and stir to combine. Refrigerate until chilled and the flavors have melded, about 2 to 3 hours.
• 1 1/2 oz Tito's Handmade Vodka
  4 oz sparkling mineral water
  1 orange slice
  1 lime slice
  Just add Tito's Handmade Vodka and sparkling mineral water to a rocks glass with ice.
  Stir and garnish with an orange and lime slice.
• 1 part Liquore Gilliano
  1 part Remy Martini
  Build.
• 2 oz. absolut vodka
  5 pc. fresh strawberry
  2 scoops vanilla ice cream
  .5 oz. lime juice
  Combine ingredients and blend. Pour into a Poco Grande glass.
  Budi Budiastra
  Nusa Dua Bali
  Indonesia