© Frances Janisch

Don't Give Up the Ship

• Recipe by Cocktails 2006 and Ben Dougherty

Zig Zag Cafe • Seattle
Ben Dougherty is obsessed with quirky cocktail recipes and scours forgotten cocktail guides to find ones like this pleasantly bitter gin drink.

"It makes people feel sophisticated," says Zig Zag co-owner Dougherty, referring to this improbable yet delicious combination of gin, the bitter Italian digestif Fernet Branca and the sweet French aperitif Dubonnet.