It's a drink that lends itself to riffing ... But the Manhattan Club did hoard very old rye, and it did serve a Manhattan cocktail, though its recipe was different at the time.

Though proportions can be tweaked to the drinker’s taste, the Manhattan largely adheres to the standard 2:1 liquor-to-vermouth ratio common to the spirit-forward category of cocktails.

If you were to craft a list of the world’s most classic cocktails, the Old Fashioned recipe would undoubtedly sit at the very ...

It takes the energy of a normal Manhattan cocktail—no one’s idea of ... To be inescapably clear: Some recipes for this drink will claim that you can use a different amaro for this, and they ...

Of all the Manhattan’s children ... say about the Harvard Cocktail? We know it comes to us from George J. Kappeler, published in 1895 in his book Modern American Drinks. Kappeler also invented ...

Maybe they’ll want a missionary’s downfall or a flor de jerez or an alamagoozlum, a drink I have never made but really enjoy saying out loud. It never happens. Even my fellow cocktail-geek ...

A s far as whiskey cocktails go, the Manhattan is one of the most elite. Like most classic cocktails, it’s simple, unfussy, and evokes a sense of cool when ordered, served, or sipped. For this ...