Jason O'Bryan

1 week ago | robbreport.com | Jason O'Bryan |Jeremy Repanich

For the past five years, we’ve been diving deep into the world of cocktails, with bartender Jason O’Bryan—now the lead mixologist at Michelin three-star Addison—building an incredible library of the best drinks around. Over that time we’ve explored the history, people, and places that have created endless variations on the core cocktail templates. We’ve written cocktails based on most every spirit you can imagine, but when it reaches spring and summertime we especially love a drink mixed with gin.

2 weeks ago | robbreport.com | Jason O'Bryan

In the cocktail universe, the Seelbach is singular. It is in a class by itself. We don’t mean that in a good way. It’s not singular in the way it looks (like a red French 75) or the way it tastes (like a bourbon Champagne Cocktail) but in its identity, the origin story for which it has received so much of its attention, which is singular because it is—to an extent that is unique in the cocktail world—total and complete horseshit.

3 weeks ago | robbreport.com | Jason O'Bryan

The Royal Bermuda Yacht Club is not a tiki drink. Admittedly it sounds like one, and the recipe might even read a little like one, but it’s not—if you’re hoping for a juice-packed garnish monster, this is not the cocktail for you.

3 weeks ago | robbreport.com.au | Jason O'Bryan

A drink where the flavours work so well together, its invention was practically inevitable. I think of certain cocktails as being “inevitable.” The Daiquiri, the Whiskey Sour, the Manhattan… these are drinks wherein the flavours work so well together, it was only a matter of time until someone put them together. These are also all drinks whose specific histories are lost to time for that exact reason. Who first mixed a Mojito?

4 weeks ago | robbreport.com | Jason O'Bryan

I think of certain cocktails as being “inevitable.” The Daiquiri, the Whiskey Sour, the Manhattan… these are drinks wherein the flavors work so well together, it was only a matter of time until someone put them together. These are also all drinks whose specific histories are lost to time for that exact reason. Who first mixed a Mojito? Who cares! Even if it were knowable (which it’s not), it wouldn’t matter. It was inevitable. The Elderflower Spritz is, similarly, inevitable.