THE FOUNDATIONS OF NEW AMSTERDAM. CONTENTS. __________ __________ Stadt Huys Block & The Lovelace Tavern. COCKTAILS. Spirit-Forward ................................... 1 Spirit-Forward ................................... 2 Lovelace Tavern Sours, Bitters & Fruits ........................... 3 New York City’s Stopgap Town Hall Sours, Bitters & Fruits ........................... 4 Stadt Huys Block was a town located in the old Dutch Gin & Tonic Cocktail of Month ..................... 5 New Amsterdam in the mid-1600s. The Block was the Gin & Tonic Cocktails - Spanish-Style ............. 6 site of Stadt Huys, New York City’s first town hall, which was built originally as a tavern called Stadt GIN. Herbergh. It was located near 77 Pearl Street. Gin Tasting Flights ............................... 7 American Gin ...................................... 8 The first large-scale archaeological excavation in International Gin ................................. 9 New York City took place in the Wall Street district International Gin / Tonic Waters ................. 10 in 1979–1980, when the city was making way for a new office building that would become the headquarters of Goldman Sachs. RUM. Rum Flights ...................................... 12 While the excavations did not reveal any evidence of Rum, Ron & Rhum .................................. 12 the Stadt Huys building, researchers did discover the remains of the Lovelace Tavern. Built in 1670 by BRANDY. Sir Francis Lovelace, New York City’s second English Grape, Apple & Other Fruit ....................... 13 governor, it served as an interim town hall after the Stadt Huys fell out of use. TEQUILA. The excavation revealed a host of information, from a Tequila & Mezcal ................................. 14 large number of broken tobacco pipe stems to a number of wine bottle fragments dating from the late 17th HISTORY. century. The dig also excavated the foundations of Stadt Huys - New York City’s first Town Hall ...... 15 the Tavern, which are now part of a permanent display across the street at Goldman Sachs Plaza. Today we look back on this history and on what’s gone before us. Old world spirits drinking in New York style. It’s the history of the Tavern - the Stopgap Town Hall. COCKTAILS. TEQUILA. __________ ____ Spirit-Forward. Centuries before tequila was invented, the Aztecs drank pulque, a fermented drink which used the sap of the agave plant. By the 1500s the Spanish were using their brandy distilling techinques Diamondback. to produce we know today as mezcal. In the early 1600s, the first Bottoms Up, Ted Saucier, 1951 large-scale distillery was built in what is now Tequila, Jalisco. Rittenhouse Straight Rye (100 Proof) ............. 15 Laird’s Apple Jack, Silver. Blanco. Platinum. Yellow Chartreuse. clear and typically un-aged tequila Cazadores(Sustainable) .......................... 12 Martini Don Julio ........................................ 14 American Bar, Frank Newman, 1904 El Tesoro ........................................ 12 Dingle Original Gin (Ireland)(Pot Still) ......... 15 Reposado. Dolin Dry Vermouth, Orange Bitters. rested in wood barrels between 2 & 12 months Served with an olive or a lemon. Cazadores(12 months in American oak barrels) ..... 13 Don Julio(8 months American white-oak) ........... 15 Champagne Cocktail El Tesoro(8-11 months in ex-bourbon barrels) .... 13 American Bar, Frank Newman, 1904 Fortaleza(7 months American oak barrels) ......... 14 Laurent-Perrier La Cuvée Brut (France) ........... 16 Herradura(11 months in American oak barrels) ..... 14 D’Ussé VSOP Cognac, Pueblo Viejo(9 months in American oak.) .......... 11 Angostura Bitters, Sugar Cube. Siete(8 months in white oak barrels) ............. 14 La Rosita Añejo. aged for at least 1 year The Bartender’s Bible, Gary Regan, 1991 Cazadores(at least 1 year in American oak barrels) 16 Cazadores Tequila Reposado (Mexico)(100% Agave) .. 15 Don Julio(18 months in American white-oak) ....... 17 Dolin Dry Vermouth, Campari, Don Julio 1942 (2.5 years) ....................... 36 Dolin Sweet Vermouth El Tesoro (2-3 years aging in oak barrels)........ 14 Angostura Bitters, Orange Twist. Roca Patrón(14 months in bourbon barrels) ........ 22 Tipperary Extra Añejo. Recipes for Mixed Drinks, 1916 Dulce Vida(50%)(5 years)(Napa Vall wine barrels) . 34 Teeling Small Batch Whiskey (Ireland) ............ 15 Cocchi Sweet Vermouth, Mezcal. Green Chartreuse, Orange Bitters. del Maguey Chichicapa(single village)(7-8 years) . 18 del Maguey Vida(single village)(7-8 years) ....... 11 1. 14. BRANDY. COCKTAILS. ____ __________ Originally a medicine distiled in France, it was a 16th century Spirit-Forward. Dutchman trader who invented the way to ship more wine in the limited cargo space by removing water from the wine. Water was then added back to the concentrate at the destination port. Bijou. “bradwijn,” meaning “burned wine”. It later became “brandy.” Spirit-Forward. Plymouth Gin (England)(since 1793) ............... 15 Armagnac. Dolin Sweet Vermouth, Brandy produced in Gascony, southwest France Green Chartreuse, Orange Bitters. Castarède 10 Year VSOP (Bas-Armagnac) ............ 14 Francis Darroze 12 Year (Bas-Armagnac) ........... 18 Manhattan Francis Darroze 20 Year (Bas-Armagnac ............ 22 circa 1870s Château du Tariquet XO (Bas-Armagnac)(15 years) .. 18 High West Double Rye (blend of 2 YO & 16 YO) ...... 15 Château du Busca 15 Year (Armagnac-Ténarèze) ...... 28 Carpano Antica Sweet Vermouth, Angostura Bitters Brandied Morello Cherry. Calvados. Apple brandy from the Normandy region, France Negroni Lecompte 12 Year (finished in port wine barrels) . 11 Caffe Casoni, Florence, Italy, 1919 Château du Breuil 15 Year ....................... 12 Dingle Original Gin (Ireland)(Pot Still) ......... 15 Père Magloire VS (2-3 years, in century-old oak) . 18 Martini & Rossi Riserva Speciale Bitter, Carpano Antica Sweet Vermouth, Orange Twist. Cognac. Brandy produced in the Cognac region of west France Bache-Gabrielsen - American Oak Old Fashioned. (first cognac stored in American oak barrels) .... 12 Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, 1880 Hine - H - VSOP (aged for a minimum of 4 years) ... 13 Basil Hayden’s Dark Rye (Kentucky) ............... 15 Paul Giraud - Napoleon (aged up to 15 years) ...... 14 Fee’s Barrel-Aged Old Fashioned Bitters, Pierre Ferrand - 1840 (aged in Limousin oak) ..... 14 Superfine Sugar Syrup, Brandied Morello Cherry. Pierre Ferrand - Renegade No.1 (Sauternes casks) . 24 D’Ussé VSOP (aged at least 4 & a half years) ...... 12 New Orleans Sazerac. New Orlean, Louisiana, circa 1830s Brandies of the Americas. Pierre Ferrand Cognac 1840 (France) .............. 15 Barsol - Primero Quebranta Pisco (Peru) ......... 11 Peychaud’s Bitters, Superfine Sugar Syrup, Control C - Pisco (Chile)(Moscatel grapes) ....... 11 Vieux Pontarlier Absinthe. Copper & Kings - Butchertown(Kentucky) ........... 16 Note: The Sazerac was originally made with cognac until the Laird’s - Applejack (New Jersey ) ................ 11 Great French Wine Blight of the 1860s forced bartenders to Singani 63 (Bolivia)(White Muscat grapes) ........ 11 turn instead to rye whiskey. 13. 2. COCKTAILS. RUM. __________ English-style, distilled from molasses Appleton Estate V/X (Jamaica) .................... 11 Appleton Estate 21 Year (Jamaica)(American oak) .. 38 Sours / Bitters / Fruits. Banks 5-Island (3-12 Years) (Trinidad, Jamaica, Barbados, Guyana, & Java) .... 14 El Dorado 12 Year (Guyana)(Demerara)(bourbon bbl) 14 Aperol Spritz. Gosling’s Black Seal (Bermuda) ................... 11 Aperol Aperitivo (Italy) ......................... 15 Lemon Hart 151° (Guyana)(Demerara)(75.5%) ........ 14 Toffoli Prosecco di Conegliano, Soda Water. Mount Gay XO Extra Old (Barbados)(8-15 years) .... 20 Mount Gay Black Barrel (Barbados)(bourbon bbl) ... 14 Aviation. Smith & Cross - Navy Strength (Jamaica)(57%) ..... 14 Recipes for Mixed Drinks, Hugo Ensslin, 1916 Two James - Doctor Bird (Jamaica/Detroit) Dingle Original Gin (Ireland)(Pot Still) ......... 15 finished in Moscatel Sherry casks ................ 11 Luxardo Maraschino, The Scarlet Ibis (Trinidad) ...................... 14 J. Wray & Nephew Rum - Silver (Jamaica) .......... 10 Crème de Violet, Lemon Juice, Simple Syrup, Brandied Morello Cherry. RHUM AGRICOLE. French-style, distilled from fresh sugarcane juice Clover Club. Barbancourt White (Haiti) ........................ 11 pre-Prohibition cocktail popular in the late 1880s Barbancourt Reserve 8 Year (Haiti)(French oak) ... 12 Dingle Original Gin (Ireland)(Pot Still) ......... 16 Barbancourt Reserve 15 Year (Haiti)(French oak ... 18 Lemon Juice, Raspberry Syrup, La Favorite Ambre (Martinique)(pot still)(18 mths) 12 Dolin Dry Vermouth, Egg White. La Favorite Vieux (Martinique)(3-14 Year)(bourbon) 16 Neisson Blanc (Martinique)(50%) .................. 12 Neisson Reserve (Martinique)(50%) Bee’s Knees. (French oak & ex-bourbon casks) .................. 20 The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, David Embury, 1949 Plymouth Gin (England)(since 1793) ............... 15 RON. Lemon Juice, Spanish-style, distilled from molasses Orange Blossom Honey Syrup. Brugal 1888 (Dominican Republic) (double-aged)(American oak, Spanish sherry) ...... 16 Daiquiri. Facundo Eximo (Puerto Rico) at least 10 years .... 21 “Drinks”, Jacques Straub, 1914 Facundo Exquisito (Puerto Rico) 7-23 years ....... 32 Barbancourt Rhum - 8 Year(Haiti) ................. 15 Flor de Cana 18 Year (Nicaragua)(bourbon bbls) ... 18 Lime Juice, Simple Syrup. Kirk & Sweeney 23 Year (Dominican Republic) ...... 15