​Cocktail confidential

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"It ain't half-empty. It ain't half-full. It's almost time for a refill!" Leon Fullerton
Share your original recipes here!

Leon Fullerton supplemented his peripatetic lifestyle by, among other things, tending bar. This page is an homage to that aspect of his many-faceted career.

​Have a great original cocktail recipe? Email it to info at thefullertons dot net and we'll post it here.

- Required: the recipe, its name.

​- Optional: a picture, commentary.

PS - Non-alcoholic recipes are welcome. We're open and affirming. Shirley Temple lives!

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French Revolution 
Mixologist: Will Everitt, Portland, Maine
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Because jeez, what hellraiser doesn't appreciate the French Revolution?
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  •  2 ounces brandy
  • 1/2 ounce Framboise raspberry liqueur
  • 3 ounces chilled champagne

Pour the brandy and framboise into a mixing glass or shaker half-filled with ice cubes. Stir well and strain into a champagne flute. Add the champagne and serve.

​Ooh, la la!
James Bond 
Mixologist: Will Everitt, Portland, Maine
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This has become our favorite “signature cocktail” of parties and get togethers. Like Bond, it is roguish but carries an outward look of elegance — an explosive personality in a champagne flute.
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  • 1 sugar cube
  • Several dashes of bitters
  • 1 ounce vodka
  • Champagne or sparkling wine

In a champagne flute, saturate the sugar cube with bitters
Pour in an ounce of vodka.
Fill the flute with champagne and serve (and watch the beautiful bubbles come out from under the bitter saturated sugar cube!).
Naked Old Fashioned
Mixologist: Greg Field, Yarmouth, Maine
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  • 2 ounces rye whiskey
  • 1 ice cube

Pour rye into old fashioned glass. Add ice cube. Skip all the other crap like bitters, sugar, orange rind. 

Sip or drink, depending on how long the night will be and who's driving.
Neon Leon
Mixologist: Leon Fullerton, missing and presumed immortal

Fullerton's favorite summer getaway, served with pride and backed by integrity at the Mermaid Bar, Juan's Bolero Club, the Lightning Shack, One-eyed Jack's, the Blue Mango, and other fine drinking establishments coast to coast, pole to pole, and guzzle to zatch:

  • Fill glass jar with ice cubes.
  • Add judicious helping of bourbon (top or bottom shelf).
  • Fill rest of way with pineapple juice (canned or fresh).
  • Add a big sprig of fresh mint.
  • Stir.
  • Enjoy!

If you know of a bar that serves Neon Leons, let us know and we'll put in a plug for 'em here. Thanks, podner!
Washington Square
Mixologist: Gwen Fullerton, San Francisco, California

We'll take Manhattan - and perfect it! Shake together:
 
  • Three parts any whiskey but Scotch 
  • One part dry vermouth 
  • A splash of blood orange bitters 
  • Ice
 
Shake it up, baby, and pour into a martini glass. Add a lemon twist, and you know what to do.

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"So set 'em up, Joe . . . ." 
​Johnny Mercer