Ingredients: 1 tbsp lemon juice 1 tsp sugar syrup 50ml gin champagne ice lemon zest Method: STEP 1 Pour the lemon juice, sugar syrup and gin into a cocktail shaker then fill up with ice. STEP 2 Shake well then strain into a champagne flute. Top with a little champagne, leave to settle (as it will bubble up) then fill up with more champagne. Swirl gently with a … Continue reading French 75
Ingredients: 1 oz of Vodka 1/2 oz of Sour Apple Pucker Cranberry Juice Instructions: Shake with ice, then strain into a martini glass. Continue reading The Adam & Eve
Ingredients For the spiced simple syrup 1 cup sugar 1 cup water 3 whole cardamom pods 4–5 whole cloves 4–5 whole allspice 2 whole star anise For the Hungarian Horntail 2 ounces plum brandy 1/2 ounce spiced simple syrup (recipe above) Ginger beer, to fill glass halfway Instructions For the simple syrup Combine the sugar and water in a small saucepan over medium-low heat. Slowly bring a boil, stirring to dissolve the … Continue reading Hungarian Horntail
INGREDIENTS: 1 Oz Gin 1/4 Oz Elderflower cordial 1 Oz Lime juice 3/4 Oz Vanilla syrup 6 Mint leaves 5 Cucumber Wheels 1 Oz Soda FOR SYRUP: 4 Cups Water 15 Oz Sugar 3/4 Oz Vanilla Extract INSTRUCTIONS: Muddle cucumber and mint in shaker, saving one mint leaf or sprig for garnish. Add other ingredients, leaving out the soda. Add ice. Shake to chill. Strain … Continue reading The Somerset
Ingredients: ½ C fresh blackberries 2 Ounces Dry Gin 1 Ounce Blackberry Liquor ( optional) 1 Ounce simple syrup or maple or agave 1 1/2 Ounce fresh lemon juice Ginger Brew or Soda Instructions: In a cocktail shaker, muddle blackberries with gin, blackberry liquor ( optional) lemon juice, simple syrup or agave, until broken up and they release their juice. Double strain, using a fine … Continue reading Blackberry Bramble
Ingredients: 50 ml. brennivin One egg white 30 ml. lemon juice 25 ml. raspberry syrup 15 ml. montenegro amaro 2 dashes rhubarb bitters (Fee Bros recommended) Dash of cream Instructions: To make it, you’ll add all of the ingredients to a cocktail shaker and first dry shake (without ice), before adding ice and shaking vigorously . Then, fine strain it into a chilled goblet … Continue reading Svartafell
Ingredients: 20ml baijiu 20ml of cognac 20ml of Cointreau 15ml of white rum 2 tablespoons of fresh tangerine juice 3 ice cubes cracked A spiral of tangerine peel Instructions: Put all the ingredients except the tangerine peel into cocktail shaker, shake to mix. Strain into cocktail glass, garnish with a spiral of tangerine peel. Continue reading Persian Delight
Ingredients: 1-part Fernet-Branca 1-part Coca-Cola Instructions: Chill a highball glass with a couple of ice cubes, remove. Add Fernet-Branca, then two or three fresh ice cubes. Top up with Coca-Cola, pouring at a 45-degree angle. Add an additional ice cube if foam looks set to overflow. Continue reading Classic Fernet Con Coca
Ingredients: For the rhubarb syrup: 85g caster sugar 300g chopped rhubarb For the cocktail: 100ml vodka 100ml rhubarb syrup (see above) 1 length rhubarb 30ml advocaat 75ml lemonade Instructions: To make the rhubarb syrup, put the caster sugar in a saucepan with 75ml water. Heat very gently, so the sugar disappears but the water doesn’t bubble. Tip in the chopped rhubarb, cover with a … Continue reading Rhubarb & Custard Cocktail
Ingredients: 4 to 5 mint sprigs (leaves only) 2 sugar cubes (or 15ml simple syrup) 75ml bourbon whiskey Garnish: mint sprig Method: Place the mint leaves and sugar or simple syrup into a julep cup, collins glass, or double old-fashioned glass. Muddle well to dissolve the sugar and release the oil and aroma of the mint. Add the bourbon. Fill the glass with crushed ice … Continue reading Mint Julep
Ingredients: (for one 300 ml glass) A teaspoon of honey, preferably English 25 ml Gin, preferably London Dry 25 ml Jerez-Xérès-Sherry, Medium Dry 25 ml White Rum, preferably Venezuelan A splash of Cider – yup, English Lemonade – clear and bubbly one like Schweppes, not the pink or green flat one served stateside Instructions: Drip the teaspoon of honey tactfully into the centre of your … Continue reading The Wightman Cocktail
In a cocktail shaker over ice pour: 1/2 (1 1/2oz.) Italian vermouth 1/2 (1 1/2oz) dry gin 2 dashes Fernet-Branca Instructions: Stir Strain into a (4 oz.) cocktail glass. Garnish by squeezing an orange peel over the top. Continue reading The Hanky Panky
Ingredients: 60ml freshly squeezed orange juice 30ml freshly squeezed lemon juice 15ml orgeat syrup 90ml white rum 15ml gin 15ml brandy 15ml Amontillado sherry Method: Add everything except sherry to a cocktail shaker and fill with ice. Shake well and strain into an ice-filled highball glass. Carefully pour the sherry on top of the drink; garnish with a sprig of mint. Continue reading The Fogcutter
Ingredients: 45 ml Vodka 45 ml dry white port 1 dash of Angostura aromatic bitters Instructions: Stir down all ingredients and serve up. Continue reading The Clubland
Ingredients: 55ml pear brandy 55ml pear nectar / fresh pear juice 20ml fresh lemon juice 15ml simple syrup 1 olive or pear slice to garnish 1 egg white (optional) Method: Combine pear brandy, pear nectar, lemon juice and simple syrup into cocktail shaker with ice. (If including egg white, add with this step.) Shake and mix well. If egg white was added, be sure to … Continue reading Pear Sour
Ingredients: 750ml bottle red wine such as Malbec or Cabernet Sauvignon 60ml brandy 120ml tart cherry juice 2-3 tablespoons agave syrup 1 large apple chopped or sliced 1 cup blueberries 2 cups cherries pitted and halved Method: Add all ingredients for the sangria to a large pitcher and stir well. Cover and place in the refrigerator for 4 hours (or overnight) the longer the sangria … Continue reading Apple Berry Sangria
Ingredients 60 ml Coke 30 ml Red Wine Method Put ice into mixer, pour red wine, pour coke Shake vigorously until is very chilled to drink and pour into high ball and garnish it with a strawberry or a slice of lemon. Continue reading Red Cock
Ingredients: 1.5 oz of whisky 1/2 oz of sweet vermouth 1/2 oz of dry vermouth Instructions: In a mixing glass half-filled with ice cubes, combine all of the ingredients. Stir well. Strain into a cocktail glass. Get pissed singing God Save the Queen. Continue reading The Balmoral
Ingredients: 2 ounces coconut rum 1 ounce gold rum 1 ounce blue Curacao 2 ounces pineapple juice Tools, Garnish and Glassware Cocktail Shaker Martini picks Maraschino cherries Tom Collins glass or rocks glass Instructions: Fill shaker halfway with ice Add rums and blue Curacao Cap shaker and shake at least 20 times. Pour into glass Top off with pineapple juice and add cherries Continue reading Sweet Poison
Ingredients: 50ml Gin 75ml pressed apple juice 25ml elderflower cordial 25ml freshly squeezed lime juice Cucumber slices, for garnishing Instructions: Place ice into a glass. Pour over the gin. Pour over the apple juice, elderflower and fresh lime juice. Stir gently. Add cucumber slices to garnish. Continue reading English Garden Gin Cocktail
