July 4-American Trilogy

The American Trilogy is in my opinion, the perfect cocktail for the 4th of July. This is a very American cocktail and this makes it the best for a very American Holiday. What makes this cocktail so American is that it is the story of the beginning of American booze in one drink. America’s first spirit it made was Applejack or Apple Brnady and then Rye was created. This cocktail features a split base of these 2 with Regan’s bitters, another american made ingredient. These 3 make the Awerican Trilogy in terms of cocktail ingredients.

This cocktail was created by Richard Bocatto and Michael McIlroy at Milk and Honey in New York City. This is a legendary bar that started nearly every trend that other bars follow. McIlroy opened a new bar in the old space that Milk and Honey inhabitted called Attaboy with Sam Ross who created cocktails like the Paper Plane and Penincillan.

Full judging here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xaihcisbpBJQKqh2x7sO6t6mfrL2S-9IaDBCh19hZbA/edit?tab=t.0