Baltimore, This Drink Is For you

Last Updated on 04/15/2021 by Inside Tailgating

We have a lots of friends in Baltimore. And we love Baltimore. Tailgating before a Ravens or Orioles game is one of our favorite activities ever.

So we are very sad when we see what has been happening in “Charm City”.

Our friends over at A History Of Drinking are based right outside of Baltimore and have had some great Maryland cocktails over the years. Heck, they even are coming out with a book about that very subject. So they kindly allowed us to re-post some of their best cocktails.

 

Belvedere Cocktail

“A Good Morning Bracer”

• One-third Camparo Antica Italian Vermouth
• One-third  Bluecoat Barrel Finished Gin
• One-third Teeling Irish Whiskey
• Few dashes of Absinthe

Shake with ice and serve in an iced cocktail glass.

 

 

Andy Ervin’s “Baltimore” Southside

recipe by Andy Ervin, Elkridge Club. Makes enough for four 12-ounce cocktails

• 1 “heavin’ handful” of mint cuttings (about 2 cups)
• 3 ounces fresh-squeezed lemon juice
• 4 ounces fresh-squeezed lime juice
• 8 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 8 ice cubes
• rum

Place every ingredient, except the rum, in a blender or food processor and run on high until mint is chopped, about 30 to 60 seconds.  Strain, pouring mixture into a pitcher. For each drink, fill a 12-ounce glass with ice. Add 4 ounces of mint mixture and 3 ounces of rum. Stir well. Top with a shot of dark rum.

Rob Kasper’s Tasting Notes:

Made from a recipe that mirrors the one he uses at the Elkridge Club. Gorgeous green marriage of rum, mint, lemon and lime juice and sugar served on ice. The minty mix is a mess to make; you have to do a lot of squeezing, pulverizing and straining, but it delivers heavenly mint and fruit flavors.

 

Southside Cocktail

adapted from the “21” Club‘s official recipe by Nora Maynard of Serious Eats

• 2 ounces gin
• 1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice
• 2 tsp granulated sugar
• 4 or 5 fresh mint leaves

Glass: Collins

Garnish: None

Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake vigorously and strain into an ice-filled Collins glass.