Get Ready For Season 3 Of ‘Only Murders In The Building’ With These Cocktails

Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez return as Charles Haden-Savage, Oliver Putnam, and Mabel Mora in season three of “Old Murders in the Building” on Tuesday and we’ve got some cocktail ideas for you to enjoy the premiere with.

If you’re not familiar with the series, Set in a lavish Manhattan apartment building, the story revolves around three unlikely individuals who share a passion for true crime. Charles (Steve Martin), a former television star who is down on his luck, teams up with Mabel (Selena Gomez), a mysterious young woman with a complex past, and Oliver (Martin Short), a flamboyant and struggling theater director. Bonding over their love for true crime podcasts, they become fast friends, but their lives take an unexpected turn when a murder occurs in their building.

The trio seizes the opportunity to solve the murder themselves and record a podcast about their investigation. As they delve deeper into the case, they uncover secrets, intrigue, and a complex web of interconnected relationships among the building’s eccentric residents.

The show received a whopping 17 Emmy nominations for its first season and 12 nominations for its second.

In 2023, the show is up for Best Comedy Series at the Emmy Awards. Martin Short is nominated for Best Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for his work on the show, and Nathan Lane is nominated for Best Male Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, amongst other nominations.

Rather than allowing viewers to binge-watch the entire thing at once, Hulu is dropping a single episode each week of the show, the first of which arrives Tuesday, August 8. And this year is going to add a new star in the mix — Meryl Streep.

If you’re planning on catching the premier or are catching up on previous seasons before it gets fully underway, here are some themed cocktails to enjoy while you watch.

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Only Martinis in the Building

Ingredients:

• 3 oz Bombay Sapphire
• ⅛ oz Martini Dry Vermouth
• Lemon Twist or Olives

Method: Chill coupe or Martini glass in the freezer. Build the contents of the cocktail in a mixing glass with ice. Stir well for 45 seconds and serve into the chilled coupe or Martini glass. Garnish with lemon twist or olives.

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Oliver’s Original Soda Highball

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ parts Dewar’s White Label
• 4 parts Soda Water
• Lemon Twist

Method: Add Dewar’s White Label to chilled highball glass. Fill with cubed ice and soda. Stir twice then spray lemon zest over the top and garnish.

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Arconia Apple & Cinnamon Highball

Ingredients:

• 1 oz Dewar’s French Cask Smooth
• ¼ oz Lemon Juice
• ¼ oz Cinnamon Syrup
• ½ oz Cloudy Apple Juice
• 2 oz Soda Water

Method: Add whisky, lemon juice, cinnamon syrup and apple juice to highball glass, then fill the glass with cubed ice. Top with soda, stir from the bottom up and garnish with apple slice.

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Brazzo’s Bramble Bramble

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ oz Bombay Bramble
• ¾ oz Lemon Juice
• ¾ oz Simple Syrup
• 1 Lemon Wedge
• 1 Blackberry

Method: Combine ingredients into your shaker filled with ice. Hard shake. Strain in a rocks glass with fresh ice. Garnish with a lemon wedge and a blackberry.

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Noir Negroni

Ingredients:

• 1 part Bombay Sapphire
• 1 part Martini and Rossi Bitter
• 1 part Martini and Rossi Rubino
• Orange Wedge

Method: Stir all ingredients together. Strain into your favorite old fashioned glass or rocks glass with fresh ice. Garnish with an orange wheel.