Featured Winter Recipes

Embrace the winter spirit with these cozy cold-weather recipes.

Behind The Bar

Salut! I’m Kendall, the author behind Novel Nightcaps.

A creative by trade, I first found craft cocktail-making during the pandemic when my former partner and I started documenting tastings on the since-retired Instagram account Sips From Scripts. I was originally the photographer, but now I’m stepping behind the bar so I can carry on with one of my favorite pastimes—tasting my way through my impressively large cocktail book collection.

Here on this blog you’ll find hundreds of recipes I’ve already tried, along with their histories, tasting notes, and ratings. I have so many favorites, and it’s my hope that you’ll use my experience to find a few reshake-worthy drinks you can revisit year after year too!

Cheers,

Favorite Recipes

Check out a few of my highest-rated cocktail recipes.
Airmail Cocktail Recipe

Airmail

The Airmail is a rum and sparkling wine-based cocktail recipe that was first published in Esquire’s Handbook For Hosts in 1949. This variation was adapted

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Classic Lime Margarita Cocktail Recipe

Margarita

The Margarita is a tequila-based cocktail recipe was created by Francisco “Pancho” Morales in 1942 at Tommy’s Place in Juárez, Mexico. This variation was adapted

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Iron Ranger Cocktail Recipe

Iron Ranger

The Iron Ranger is a whiskey-based tiki cocktail recipe that was created by Erick Castro at Raised by Wolves in San Diego, California. This variation

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Florodora Cocktail Recipe

Florodora

The Florodora is a gin-based cocktail recipe that was created in the early 1900s at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, New York.

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Mojito Cocktail Recipe

Mojito

The Mojito is a rum-based cocktail recipe that was created in the 1800s in Havana, Cuba. This variation was adapted from The Essential Cocktail Book

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Daiqui-500 Cocktail Recipe

Daiqui-500

The Daiqui-500 is a rum-based cocktail recipe that was created by Alex Sukopp, former bartender of Sips From Scripts, for Crude Bitters & Sodas Tropi-500

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