WELCOME TO V. MARTINI - $12 LEOPOLD’S GIN OR MEII VODKA, DRY VERMOUTH*. SUBSTITUTE ANOTHER GIN OR VODKA FOR +$2 Though simple -- just gin and vermouth -- the most iconic of cocktails is one of the most difficult to make well. Like many others, the Martini’s history is shrouded in mystery. It may be based on The Martinez, a delightful combination of Old Tom gin, We proudly use ingredients exclusively born, sweet vermouth*, orange liqueur and orange bitters bred and blended within the United States. How to order your Martini: We are Americans––the inventors of juleps, 1. Choose your gin or vodka (OR trust our sours, rickeys, fizzes and martinis. recommendation) 2. Choose your gin to vermouth ratio: Bone Dry = No vermouth INNOVATION IS OUR HERITAGE. Dry = 11/1 Regular = 5/1 Wet = 3/1 Dirty = Add olive brine ODB = Lots of brine (We made this term up) Perfect = Sweet & Dry vermouth ! 3. Garnish: None, olives, lemon twist, onion 4. Taste, then smile and/or giggle **We will shake the hell out of it if you don’t specify stirred** VI. THE CHUCK YEAGER - $12 LEOPOLD’S GIN, LEMON JUICE, Our House LEOPOLD’S MICHIGAN TART CHERRY LIQUEUR, LAVENDER BITTERS SPECIALTIES The Aviation Cocktail was created at the Hotel These cocktails were created by Americans and gained Wallick in New York at the turn of the century. notoriety throughout the drinking world. With some, we Hotel head bartender Hugo Ensslin’s original have our own versions. You deserve to have them made to recipe calls for maraschino liqueur and a dash of perfection. creme de violette. Neither of these spirits are I. OLD FASHIONED - $11 American, so we had to get creative. WELLER RESERVE BOURBON, SUGAR, VII. MAI TAI - $13 BITTERS, SODA BACARDI RUM, LEOPOLD’S ORANGE The oldest drink to be called a cocktail, legend has it LIQUEUR, ORGEAT*, LIME JUICE that the Old Fashioned was invented in the Pendennis Created in 1944 by Victor “Trader Vic” Club in Louisville, KY, for Colonel (and bourbon Bergeron, in Oakland, CA, the name was distiller) James E. Pepper. Though this story was later adopted from the Tahitian expression “Mai Tai- disproved, it is certain that Colonel Pepper had strong Roa Ae,” meaning “Out of this world - the ties in the promotion of this classic. In more recent best!” years, this simple yet tasty concoction has been altered by adding orange slices, maraschino cherries and VIII. DAIQUIRI - $12 sometimes a pineapple slice. We pay respect to the past BACARDI SUPERIOR RUM, LEMON and agree with cocktail book author Crosby Gaige’s JUICE, HONEY, GRENADINE*, stance from 1944: “Serious-minded persons omit CRUSHED ICE fruit salad from Old Fashioneds.” Though the Daiquiri was invented Cuba in 1896, its creator was American engineer II. MINT JULEP - $12 Jennings Cox. The drink was introduced to the BUFFALO TRACE BOURBON, MINT, SUGAR, States by U.S. Admiral Lucius Johnson at the CRUSHED ICE Army & Navy Club here in the nation’s capital. The ultimate Deep South cocktail famously served at The original used Bacardi Carta Blanca, which the Kentucky Derby with hand-crushed ice and is now known as Bacardi Superior, but still made muddled mint in a tin cup. There are imposters out using the same strain of cultured yeast. there. It’s time to have it made right. IX. JACK ROSE - $12 III. SOPHOMORIC SAZERAC #2 - $12 LAIRD’S APPLEJACK, LEMON JUICE, RYE, FRUIT LAB HIBISCUS LIQUEUR, GRENADINE* ABSINTHE, PEYCHAUD’S BITTERS Robert Laird established America’s first The key ingredient in this quintessential New Orleans commercial distillery in New Jersey in 1780. A classic is Peychaud’s aromatic bitters. Believed to be wonderful silky brandy sour, the Jack Rose has created in 1858 by a bartender named Leon Lamothe, been largely forgotten because of its historic yet the cocktail was initally made with Sazerac cognac. relatively obscure base spirit. Later, a combination of the American Civil War and the “phylloxera plague,” which killed grapevines, made X. [Orange] MOSCOW MULE - $11 cognac hard to obtain. The base of the drink was 4 ORANGE VODKA, LIME-GINGER BEER* switched to rye whiskey. What’s more American than an advertising gimmick? Born in 1941 in New York’s IV. MANHATTAN - $12 Chatham Bar, the Moscow Mule was created to OLD OVERHOLT RYE, SWEET VERMOUTH*, promote Smirnoff Vodka and a new ginger beer. BRANDIED CHERRIES*, BITTERS The origins of the Manhattan, like so many cocktails, *Indicates house-made ingredients. Church & State makes our own are lost in time. However, we are almost certain that it Sweet & Dry Vermouth, Ginger Beer, Orgeat Syrup, Brandied was made with rye rather than bourbon when invented Cherries & Grenadine Syrup. We will hand crush your cocktail ice in New York in the late 1800s. when appropriate.