These stiff cocktail recipes, including a breakfast martini, dark and stormy, Manhattan, and an old-fashioned, are our favorite boozy (and we DO mean boozy!) beverages. Here’s how to make them.

Breakfast Martini
: Jason Varney 1/10 Oh, what a way to start a day! Just shake yourself this citrusy martini and take the rest of the morning—and afternoon—off from all your troubles.
Recipe Classic Old-Fashioned Cocktail
: William Lingwood 2/10 A little sugar, a splash of bitters, and a lotta booze—your grandma's go-to drink. (Oh wait, was that just our family?!)
Recipe Classic Manhattan Cocktail
: John Kernick 3/10 Rye whiskey, vermouth, Grand Marnier, and bitters all work the devil's magic in this all-but-forgotten formula for a cocktail classic.
Recipe Sazerac Cocktail
: William Lingwood 4/10 A boozy, much-ballyhooed cocktail of absinthe, brandy, bitters, and sugar that you can mix a blissfully short stumble from your couch.
Recipe Hanky Panky Cocktail
: Daniel Krieger 5/10 A classic hanky panky calls for gin, sweet vermouth, Fernet Branca, an orange twist, and, after the first sip, a ginormous grin. There's a reason it's a classic.
Recipe Dark and Stormy Cocktail
: Lulu Powers 6/10 It was a dark and stormy night...oops. We mean, this stiff yet slightly sweet cocktail is certain to thunder through your evening.
Recipe The Revolver Cocktail
: Alanna Hale 7/10 "A terrific, deeply flavored cocktail." "A blessing after a rough day at work." That's what folks are saying about this cocktail.
Recipe Fatty Daddy Cocktail
: David Leite 8/10 You've not "made it" until you've an eponymous cocktail all your own. Witness the Fatty Daddy, a sweetly surprising number that packs a punch, just like our own dear David.
Recipe Sazerac Cocktail Without Absinthe
: Clare Barboza and Mark Bitterman 9/10 All the flavor of the classic without any of the purported hallucinogenic properties. With apologies to Baudelaire, Hemingway, van Gogh, et al.
Recipe Little Hot After Dinner Shots
: Peter Cassidy 10/10 An innocent little after dinner libation that's sorta got a suave sophisticate thing going on. Consider it a liquid lullaby.
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