Zellmer Homes

The Bar

64 drinks · marks a house favorite

Tequila

Rosa Paloma

1½ oz LALO Blanco · 1½ oz Sarti Rosa · ¾ oz fresh lime · Elderflower tonic to top

The drink that solved the tequila-vs-Sarti standoff, and still the best answer to it.

Tommy's Margarita

2 oz LALO Blanco · 1 oz fresh lime · ½ oz honey syrup

No orange liqueur. Honey stands in for agave nectar and is arguably better.

Classic Margarita

2 oz LALO Blanco · ¾ oz Triple Sec · 1 oz fresh lime

Añejo Old Fashioned

2 oz Herradura Añejo · ¼ oz honey syrup · 2 dashes Angostura

Smoked Chocolate Añejo

2 oz Herradura Añejo · ¼ oz honey syrup · 3 dashes Spiced Chocolate bitters · 1 dash Angostura

Peach-Pineapple Smash

2 oz LALO Blanco · 1½ oz pineapple juice · ¾ oz fresh lime · ½ oz peach syrup · 6–8 mint leaves

Tequila Manhattan

2 oz Herradura Añejo · 1 oz rosso vermouth · 3 dashes Spiced Chocolate bitters

Tequila Martini

2 oz LALO Blanco · ½ oz dry vermouth · 2 dashes Olive bitters

Contessa

1 oz LALO Blanco · 1 oz Aperol · 1 oz rosso vermouth

Equal parts, agave-based, and the softer answer to a Negroni. Aperol instead of Campari is the point.

Mezcal

Mezcal Mule

2 oz mezcal · ¾ oz fresh lime · Ginger beer to top

The reason you're buying it. Better than every variation in the house section above.

Oaxacan Margarita

1½ oz LALO Blanco · ½ oz mezcal · 1 oz fresh lime · ½ oz honey syrup

Split base — the LALO carries the body, the mezcal carries the smoke. A real bartender's move, not a compromise, and it stretches the mezcal bottle.

Smoky Rosa Paloma

1 oz mezcal · ½ oz LALO Blanco · 1½ oz Sarti Rosa · ¾ oz fresh lime · Elderflower tonic to top

Naked & Famous

¾ oz mezcal · ¾ oz Aperol · ¾ oz St-Germain · ¾ oz fresh lime

Mezcal Old Fashioned

2 oz mezcal · ¼ oz honey syrup · 3 dashes Spiced Chocolate bitters · 1 dash Angostura

Mezcal Gold Rush

2 oz mezcal · ¾ oz fresh lemon · ¾ oz honey syrup

The Gold Rush template with smoke instead of bourbon. Honey rounds off mezcal's sharp edge better than sugar does.

Rum

Dark & Stormy

2 oz Flor de Caña 12 · ¾ oz fresh lime · Ginger beer to top

Two ingredients. The 12-year makes it far better than the version most people have had.

Flor de Caña Old Fashioned

2 oz Flor de Caña 12 · ¼ oz honey syrup · 2 dashes Angostura

Mojito

2 oz Shipwreck White · ¾ oz fresh lime · ½ oz honey syrup · 10 mint leaves · Club soda to top

Piña Colada

2 oz Shipwreck White · 1 oz Shipwreck Coconut · 1½ oz pineapple juice · 1 oz cream of coconut · ½ oz fresh lime

Made properly with real cream of coconut it's a genuinely good drink, not a cruise-ship joke.

Painkiller

2 oz Shipwreck Coconut · ½ oz Shipwreck Spiced · 2 oz pineapple juice · 1 oz orange juice · 1 oz cream of coconut

The BVI's answer to the colada. Nutmeg on top isn't optional — it's the drink's signature.

Coffee Colada

2 oz Shipwreck Coffee · 1 oz cream of coconut · 1 oz pineapple juice · 2 dashes Spiced Chocolate bitters

Coconut and coffee, which is a better idea than it sounds.

Coconut Pineapple Cooler

1½ oz Shipwreck Coconut · ½ oz Shipwreck White · 1½ oz pineapple juice · ½ oz fresh lime · Club soda to top

The colada's lighter cousin — no cream, so it's actually refreshing.

Spiced Rum Sweet Tea

2 oz Shipwreck Spiced · 3 oz iced tea · ½ oz fresh lemon

Spiced Peach Buck

2 oz Shipwreck Spiced · ½ oz peach syrup · ¾ oz fresh lemon · 3 dashes Peach bitters · Ginger beer to top

Coffee Rum Cream

1½ oz 3 Olives Vanilla vodka · 1½ oz Shipwreck Coffee · ½ oz honey syrup · Float: ½ oz heavy cream

An espresso martini with no espresso and no coffee liqueur.

Mocha Coffee Rum

The above, plus 3 dashes Spiced Chocolate bitters

El Presidente

1½ oz Shipwreck White · ¾ oz Bianco vermouth · ½ oz Triple Sec · ¼ oz raspberry syrup

1920s Havana. One of the few classics where bianco is the right bottle rather than a stand-in.

Rum Manhattan

2 oz Flor de Caña 12 · 1 oz rosso vermouth · 2 dashes Angostura

Whiskey

Gold Rush

2 oz Woodford Reserve · ¾ oz fresh lemon · ¾ oz honey syrup

Three ingredients, and one of the best cocktails invented in the last thirty years.

Sassenach Penicillin

2 oz The Sassenach · ¾ oz fresh lemon · ¾ oz honey syrup · 1½ oz ginger beer

A modern classic, and the second acceptable thing to do with the good Scotch.

Whiskey Sour

2 oz Jim Beam · ¾ oz fresh lemon · ½ oz honey syrup · 2 dashes Angostura on top

Manhattan

2 oz Woodford Reserve (or Angel's Envy) · 1 oz rosso vermouth · 2 dashes Angostura

The reason to buy the bottle.

Perfect Manhattan

2 oz Woodford Reserve · ½ oz rosso vermouth · ½ oz dry vermouth · 2 dashes Angostura

"Perfect" means split vermouth, not better — though it usually is.

Bianco Manhattan

2 oz Basil Hayden · 1 oz Bianco vermouth · 2 dashes Angostura

Lighter and more floral than the standard. Basil Hayden's soft 80 proof suits it.

Rob Roy

2 oz The Sassenach · 1 oz rosso vermouth · 2 dashes Angostura

Peach Bourbon Old Fashioned

2 oz Woodford Reserve · ¼ oz peach syrup · 3 dashes Peach bitters · 1 dash Angostura

Peach and charred oak are practically the same flavor.

Bourbon Peach Smash

2 oz Woodford Reserve · ½ oz peach syrup · ¾ oz fresh lemon · 8 mint leaves

Kentucky Mule

2 oz Woodford Reserve (or Jim Beam) · ¾ oz fresh lime · Ginger beer to top · Big mint sprig

Sassenach Highball

1½ oz The Sassenach · 4 oz club soda

Jameson Orange Palmer

2 oz Jameson Orange · 2 oz iced tea · 2 oz lemonade

Vodka

Blue Cheese Dirty Martini

2½ oz Tito's · ½ oz dry vermouth · ¼ oz olive brine · 2 dashes Olive bitters

Olives, olive bitters, dry vermouth. You already own two of the three.

Elderflower Collins

1½ oz Tito's · ¾ oz St-Germain · ¾ oz fresh lemon · Elderflower tonic to top

Double-dose of the same flower, and the tonic's quinine keeps it from going syrupy.

Classic Martini

2½ oz Tito's · ½ oz dry vermouth · 1 dash Olive bitters (optional)

Moscow Mule

2 oz Tito's · ¾ oz fresh lime · Ginger beer to top

Cucumber Watermelon Cooler

2 oz Grey Goose Essences Watermelon & Basil · ¾ oz fresh lemon · ½ oz honey syrup · 4 dashes Cucumber bitters · Club soda to top

Cucumber, watermelon and basil are the same summer note three ways.

Watermelon Basil Collins

2 oz Grey Goose Essences Watermelon & Basil · ¾ oz fresh lemon · ½ oz honey syrup · Club soda to top

Lemon Mint Cooler

2 oz Luscious Lemon Mint · 2 oz lemonade · Club soda to top · Big handful of mint

Let the NJ craft bottle be the point instead of hiding it.

House Tonic Highball

2 oz Tito's (or LALO) · ¾ oz fresh lime · ¼ oz honey syrup · 5–6 dashes Tonic bitters · Club soda to top

What the Tonic Bitters are for — you build the tonic and set the bitterness yourself.

Cherry Raspberry Fizz

1½ oz 3 Olives Cherry · ½ oz raspberry syrup · ¾ oz fresh lemon · Club soda to top

Berry Cape Codder

2 oz 3 Olives Cherry (or Tito's) · 3 oz strawberry-cranberry juice · ¾ oz fresh lime

Orange Blossom Fizz

1½ oz 3 Olives Orange · 1 oz orange juice · ½ oz fresh lemon · Prosecco to top

Beer & Aperitivo

Tan Limes Aperol Shandy

1½ oz Aperol · ¼ oz fresh lime · 8 oz Cape May Tan Limes

The lime is already in the beer, so you're stacking with it instead of fighting it. Better than the Corona version for exactly that reason.

Corona Aperol Shandy

1½ oz Aperol · ½ oz fresh lime (lime, not lemon — Corona wants lime) · 8 oz Corona

Sarti Shandy

2 oz Sarti Rosa · ¼ oz fresh lime · 8 oz Tan Limes or Corona

Aperol Radler

1½ oz Aperol · 3 oz lemonade · Top with a wheat beer or wit

Lower proof, sweeter, a daytime drink. Uses the lemonade.

House Originals

Barnegat Smoke

1½ oz Rey Campero mezcal · ¾ oz cream of coconut · ½ oz pineapple juice · ¾ oz fresh lime · 2 dashes Spiced Chocolate bitters

Smoke and coconut fat is a real pairing and an underused one. The fat rounds mezcal's edge without covering it; the lime stops it becoming dessert.

Long Beach Blush

1 oz Sarti Rosa · 1 oz Bianco vermouth · ½ oz peach syrup · ¾ oz fresh lemon · Elderflower tonic to top

Spritz & Aperitif

Bianco & Tonic

2 oz Bianco vermouth · Elderflower tonic to top · Big lemon twist, lots of ice

What Italians actually drink before dinner, and it takes ten seconds.

Hugo Spritz

1½ oz St-Germain · 3 oz prosecco · 1 oz club soda · Big mint sprig, lime wheel

The Italian one that's overtaken the Aperol Spritz in Europe. Tastes like a garden.

Sarti & Tonic

2 oz Sarti Rosa · 4 oz elderflower tonic · ¼ oz fresh lime

Aperol Spritz

3 oz prosecco · 2 oz Aperol · 1 oz club soda

Sarti Spritz

3 oz prosecco · 2 oz Sarti Rosa · 1 oz club soda

Americano

1½ oz Aperol · 1½ oz rosso vermouth · Club soda to top

The drink the Negroni was built from — without any Campari in it.

Tequila Spritz

1 oz LALO Blanco · 1 oz Aperol · 2 oz prosecco · Club soda to top