Ramos Fizz

Ingredients

1 ½ ounces Alamere London Dry Gin

1 ounce heavy cream, or heavy cream alternative

½ ounce fresh-squeezed Meyer lemon juice

½ ounce simple syrup

1 ounce aquafaba

Freshly grated nutmeg

Small orange wheel, sliced halfway through

Directions

Combine all liquid ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake until it’s frothy and cold, and then strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Hang the orange wheel on the rim of the glass using the cut slit, and dust with nutmeg.

Note: Meyer lemons have a slight orangish flavor, which works better in this drink than either the traditional orange flower water or straight orange juice.

Whiskey Sour

Ingredients

1 ½ ounces Unsinkable Rye Whiskey

¾ ounce fresh-squeezed lemon juice

¾ ounce fresh-squeezed lime juice

¾ ounce simple syrup

1 ounce aquafaba

2 Tempus Fugit candied cherries

Directions

Combine all liquid ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake until cold and foamy. Strain into a chilled coupe glass. Skewer cherries with a long wooden pick — long enough to traverse the serving glass — and place across the top.

Note: Aquafaba foams more easily than egg white when it’s cold, so there’s no need to add a “dry shake” (without ice) before assembling.

Tempus Fugit is a spirits import company known for its eclectic products. Long located in Petaluma, it now calls Novato home.

Sloe Gin Fizz

Ingredients

2 ounces Spirit Works Sloe Gin

½ ounce Luxardo Maraschino liqueur

1 ½ ounces fresh-squeezed Meyer lemon juice

½ ounce simple syrup

1 ounce aquafaba

Splash of sparkling water

2 Luxardo cherries

Directions

Combine the first four ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake until cold and foamy. Strain into an ice-filled serving glass and top with soda water.

Skewer cherries with a long wooden pick — long enough to traverse the serving glass — and place across the top.

Note: Sloe gin is not made with gin. Instead, it’s a liqueur made from the fruit (or berry) of the blackthorn bush, a relative of the rose, which is more commonly called the sloe.

Luxardo Italian cherry products are now imported by Hotaling and Co., the company formally known as Anchor Distilling. The ruined stone steps of Richard Hotaling’s stately Marin mansion — the only thing left — are located in San Anselmo, just past the entrance to San Domenico School.