Dubliner

A modern classic Manhattan variation featuring Irish whiskey with orange notes from Grand Marnier, created by legendary bartender Gary Regan for St. Patricks Day 1999.

The Dubliner was created by cocktail writer and bartender Gary Regan — who wrote under the name gaz regan — for a St. Patrick's Day event in New York City in 1999 and appeared in his 2003 book The Joy of Mixology: The Consummate Guide to the Bartender's Craft. Regan was one of the most influential figures in the American cocktail revival of the late 1990s and early 2000s, known for his books, his nationally syndicated cocktail column in the San Francisco Chronicle, and his tireless promotion of craft bartending standards. The Dubliner applies the Manhattan's structural logic — whiskey, sweet vermouth, bitters, orange expression — to Irish whiskey, substituting Grand Marnier for the standard Angostura bitters and adding orange bitters alongside the French cognac-and-orange liqueur. Grand Marnier, created by Louis-Alexandre Marnier Lapostolle in 1880, provides both the orange and a secondary cognac depth that no orange bitters alone can match. The result is a cocktail with more aromatic complexity than a straightforward Irish whiskey Manhattan: the Grand Marnier's cognac element creates a second spirit dimension, and the two sets of bitters work at different aromatic registers. Regan died in December 2019, and his passing was mourned across the global cocktail community as the loss of one of the craft's most generous and transformative advocates.