Admiralty Lounge Spring Menu 2025

This is the first drink I ever put on a menu and, like all beginner bartenders, I was obsessed with Earl Grey tea. Like my Fall 2025 cocktails I did not name this one, which is why it is named after a harbor that does not exist – the city of London is, quite famously, situated on a river.

  • 2 oz Gordon’s Gin
  • 0.25 oz Italicus
  • 0.75 oz acid adjusted orange juice
  • 0.75 oz Earl Grey syrup
  • 2 dashes Scrappy’s Lavender Bitters
  • Clarified Milk

Pour 4 oz of milk punch and bitters to a double rocks glass. Add ice and garnish with an orange peel.

Prep:

Acid Adjusted Orange Juice:

  • 100 grams orange peels
  • 45 grams citric acid
  • 7 grams malic acid
  • 1000 grams water

Add all ingredients to blender, blend on medium for 30 seconds, strain through a fine mesh strainer.

Earl Grey Syrup

  • 2 Twining’s Earl Grey Tea Bags
  • 236 grams hot water
  • 236 grams sugar

Let tea sit 7-10 minutes or until oversteeped. Remove tea bags, add sugar, stir until incorporated.

Milk Punch:

  • 1.5L Gin
  • 250ml Italicus
  • 750ml Orange Juice
  • 750ml Earl Grey syrup
  • 2.25L milk (ideally room temperature)

Combine all ingredients except milk. Measure milk into separate cambro, then pour batch into milk. Let sit for at least 30 minutes before straining through a fat filter, coffee filter, nut milk bag, or other straining apparatus, being sure to reintroduce the initial cloudy drops back into the strainer.