This document provides recipes for 7 cocktail bottles to purchase for amateur mixology. It recommends starting new, measuring base spirits by 1 oz and sours/mixers by 0.5-1 oz, and not being afraid to experiment. The 7 bottles recommended are: Bercherovka herbal liqueur, Plantation Pineapple Stiggins' Fancy spiced rum, Nardini Amaro amaro, Batavia Arrack, Kronan exotic liqueur, Karate Cowboy Honey Wasabi spiced honey liqueur, and Bauchant superior orange liqueur. It includes 3 original cocktail recipes using these bottles.

1. COLUMBUS
COCKTAIL
THERAPY

2. BIG KITTY LABS

5. SEVEN BOTTLES
for an aspiring mixologist

6. I’m into amateur mixology. 4 years, 140+ original recipes. Just for fun.

7. MINDSET

8. BIG KITTY COCKTAIL MINDSET IS…
➤ always start new
➤ base spirits by the 1oz
➤ sours or mixers minus the sugar by the .5 to 1 oz
➤ sugar (syrups) by the .25 oz
➤ everything else is a celebration of .25 or 4ths
➤ never be afraid to pour a bottle or a drink down the drain
➤ taste, document, consume, make again, re-taste
➤ naming, pictures, and note as much weirdness at that moment
➤ bonus techniques: spirit washed cubes, jugology

9. 7
BOTTLES

10. BERCHEROVKA$20-30, herbal liqueur
1/2 oz
1/4 oz

11. PLANTATION
PINEAPPLE
STIGGIN’S FANCY$20-30, spiced rum
2 oz
1 oz
1/2 oz
1/4 oz

12. NARDINI
AMARO$40+, amaro
1/2 oz
1/4 oz

13. BATAVIA
ARRACK$20-30, its complicated
1 oz
1/2 oz
1/4 oz

14. KRONAN$20-30, exotic
1 oz
1/2 oz
1/4 oz

15. KARATE
COWBOY
HONEY WASABI
$15-25, spiced
honey liqueur
1/2 oz
1/4 oz

16. BAUCHANT$20-30, superior
orange liqueur
1/2 oz
1/4 oz

17. Dorne'ish Promise
2 eagle rare bourbon
1 mango purée
1/4 becherovka
Bit of palm sugar
1 drop Fees Bitters
A Dorne'ish Promise, one
never to take lightly.
Don't let the mango fool
you, the Eagle is here to
mess with your mind.
Delicious yes, but deadly
like most Dorne'ish gals.
@floozyspeak, 2017

18. Panama
Poolslide
1 orange juice
1 Cana Brava Rum
1 kronan
.5 lime
.5 pineapple
.5 falrenum syrup
.25 becherovka
.25 sweet potato syrup
2 drops absinthe
BEHOLD a pool side
classic. @floozyspeak,
2017

19. Sotol Lemonade
1.5 Sotol (mezcal)
.5 nardini grappa
.25 clement Creole shrub
3 drops cherry bitters
5 oz lemonade
Shake like you mean it
with crushed ice and
pour into a luscious
vessel of consumption.
This cocktail is fantastic. A
smokey lemonade! This
is a backyard BBQ sipper,
perfect by the jug!
@floozyspeak, 2017

20. THANK YOU