Cocktails with Cognac

Cognac is French grape brandy from the Cognac region. Rich, oaky, often slightly sweet, it anchors a smaller but elegant cocktail canon.

7 cocktails this bottle anchors

Sidecar

Cognac, Cointreau, lemon. Equal parts, shaken, served up with optional sugared rim.

Also needs

Cointreau · fresh lemon

Vieux Carré

New Orleans 1937. Equal-ish parts rye and cognac, vermouth, Bénédictine, two bitters.

Also needs

rye whiskey · sweet vermouth · Bénédictine · Peychaud's & Angostura

Sazerac (cognac version)

The original Sazerac used cognac. Now usually rye.

Also needs

sugar · Peychaud's bitters · absinthe rinse · lemon peel

Brandy Alexander

Cognac, dark crème de cacao, heavy cream. Dessert-tier.

Also needs

crème de cacao · heavy cream

French 75 (cognac version)

The original French 75 used cognac, not gin. Both are correct.

Also needs

Champagne · fresh lemon · simple syrup

Stinger

3:1 cognac to white crème de menthe. Stirred or shaken, served up.

Also needs

white crème de menthe

Mind Eraser

Layered cocktail: Kahlúa, brandy, soda, drunk through a straw bottom-up.

Also needs

coffee liqueur · club soda

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