( LIST: 10 Signature Cocktails for Summer) “Sasha Petraske”-owner of Milk & Honey-“says that if we’ve concocted something with seven or eight, we haven’t been working hard enough on the recipe.” Ross is set to inherit the Milk & Honey space in October and plans to turn it into a new bar called Attaboy. “Most successful new cocktails are variations on the classics and use only a few ingredients,” says Ross. In Ross’s hands, Penicillin is particularly luscious, perhaps because of the viscosity of the bar’s freshly made honey-ginger syrup. Compared with the cosmo, it is a universe of complexity, the ferocity of the single-malt absorbed and lathed by the honey and ginger. He says the name is a joke about its being a cure-all.Įssentially, Penicillin is a transmogrification of a whiskey sour with a peaty single-malt, richly muddled ginger and honey, and a heady overlay of an Islay scotch like Laphroaig-tangy, sweet and smoky all at once. “Friends send me pictures of Penicillin on the menu from all over,” says Sam Ross of Milk & Honey, who concocted the drink in 2005 and proudly shares the recipe. Meanwhile, Brooklyn Brewery has created a Penicillin-like beer as a tribute. A fancy French bistro overlooking the Las Vegas Strip boasts that its Penicillin is the cocktail of the year (though it did not originate there). Case in point: Penicillin, which has spread from a bar in Manhattan’s Lower East Side to establishments around the world. They will argue that a number of drinks have emerged as new classics, taking a seat at the bar and imparting the new philosophy.
( PHOTOS: Cheers! 10 Summer Cocktails Made Less Fattening) Today’s mixologists can barely disguise their annoyance when asked, “When are you going to create something new that’s as successful as the cosmo?” Still, however, the shadow of the ancien régime persists. It almost didn’t matter how it tasted.Įventually, the dictatorship of vodka, triple sec and cranberry juice was overthrown a culture of cocktails that was idiosyncratic and loca-bar, both retro and avant-garde, took over. Sharing the name of the magazine that championed female libidinal liberation, adopted as the in-house cocktail of HBO’s Sex and the City, the cosmo became an affordable accessory for women-and to a large extent, gay men-who aspired to a lifestyle that was otherwise fantasy. Are you a survivor of the tyranny of the cosmopolitan? Freshly made or frozen, buoyant and regal, it dominated every club and bar, enthroned on the stiletto-thin stem of a martini glass-empress of early-’00s nightlife.
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