Ingredients: 1 1⁄2 oz Bonded bourbon 1 oz Pineau de Charentes apéritif 1⁄2 oz Simple syrup 3⁄4 oz Fresh lemon juice 1 Egg white 3 dashes Angostura bitters Garnish: Lemon twist Instructions: Add all the ingredients except the bitters into a shaker and dry-shake (no ice). Add 1 large ice cube and shake well. Strain into a chilled coupe glass, and top with a few … Continue reading Sour Grapes Cocktail
Ingredients: 60ml light rum 30ml freshly squeezed lime juice 15ml simple syrup 1 cup ice 3- 5 fresh strawberries (reserve one for garnish) Method: Muddle the strawberries in a cocktail shaker until crushed and most of the juice has been released. Pour in the light rum, fresh lime juice, simple syrup, and fill the shaker with ice. Shake vigorously for approx. 25 seconds. Fine strain … Continue reading Strawberry Daiquiri
Ingredients: 15 ml Lychee liqueur 10 ml Hibiscus liqueur 40 ml Vodka 30 ml Fresh lemon juice 10ml Vanilla sugar syrup Method: Place all the ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice, shake vigorously then strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with edible flower petal or slice of lemon. Continue reading Lotus Flower Cocktail
Ingredients: 5 – 10ml honey or sugar (optional) 1 lime, quartered 6 fresh mint leaves crushed ice juice of 1/2 a grapefruit 60ml Cachaça or white rum sparkling water, for topping Method: In a glass, muddle 1-2 teaspoons sugar or honey (if using), the quartered lime and mint leaves. Add the ice, the grapefruit juice and the Cachaça, gently mix to combine. Pour sparkling water … Continue reading Minty Grapefruit Caipirinha
Ingredients: 12 parts White Wine, Dry 2 1/2 parts Peach Liqueur 6 tbsp Lemonade Concentrate 1/4 cup Sugar Peaches and Grapes Garnish with sliced peaches and sprig of mint, if desired. Method: In a large pitcher, combine wine, schnapps, lemonade and sugar. Stir sugar until dissolved and add chopped fruit. Refrigerate until ready to serve. Garnish and serve over ice. Serves 6. Continue reading Spring Sangria
Ingredients: 60ml whisky 22.5ml lemon juice (freshly squeezed) 15ml sugar syrup Slice of lemon and fresh mint leaves to garnish Method: Fill cocktail shaker half way with ice Add whisky, lemon juice and sugar syrup and shake vigorously Strain into an ice filled glass Garnish with slice of lemon and mint leaves Continue reading Whisky Smash
Ingredients: 70ml vodka or gin 1 tbsp dry vermouth 2 tbsp olive brine 1 wedge of lemon green olives to garnish Method: Pour the vodka, dry vermouth and olive brine into a cocktail shaker with a handful of ice and shake well. Rub the rim of a martini glass with the wedge of lemon. Strain the contents of the cocktail shaker into the glass and … Continue reading Dirty Martini
Ingredients: 25ml Bombay Sapphire 25ml Martini Rosso 12.5ml crème de cassis ½ lime juiced Splash of sugar syrup 10 frozen winter berries 50ml cranberry juice Method: In a chilled Martini glass, pour in the crème de cassis, then the gin and the martini together. Then add some crushed ice and berries in layers before slowly adding the cranberry and lime juice. Continue reading Winter Berry Martini
Ingredients: 30ml Dry gin 30ml Applejack 30ml Apricot Liqueur Cherry to garnish Method: Add all the ingredients to a mixing glass and fill with ice. Stir, and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a cherry. Continue reading Angel’s Face
Ingredients: 50ml Gin 2 tsp honey 20ml fresh lemon juice 20ml fresh orange juice Mint leaf to garnish Method: Add gin and honey to a shaker and stir until the honey dissolves. Add the lemon and orange juice and top up with ice. Shake well. Strain into a martini glass. Garnish with a sprig of mint. As an alternative, try pouring the cocktail on the … Continue reading Bees Knees Cocktail
Ingredients: 4 drops Moroccan Bitters 2 oz Pomegranate-Infused Vodka 3⁄4 oz Honey syrup 1⁄2 oz Lemon juice Instructions: Add the bitters to a chilled cocktail glass and set aside. Add the remaining ingredients to a mixing glass and fill with ice. Stir, and strain into the prepared glass. Garnish with a lemon twist. Continue reading The Moroccopolitan
A quintessentially British Summer cocktail. Think countryside pub, farms and apple orchards. Ingredients: 2 Bramley apples peeled and roughly chopped 3tbsp caster sugar or more depending on the apples 8 good measures of Somerset cider brandy Juice of 2 lemons 1 egg white Ice cubes Method: Place apples into a saucepan with the sugar and a cup of water, bring to the boil and cook … Continue reading Bramley Somerset Temperley Sour
Ingredients: Ice cubes 375ml (12fl oz) Pimm’s No.1 100ml (3½fl oz) gin 1l (32fl oz) sparkling lemonade, chilled 200ml (6½fl oz) cranberry juice 1 lemon, sliced, to garnish Mint leaves, to garnish Redcurrents or fresh berries, to garnish Instructions: Fill one quarter of a large jug with ice cubes. Pour in the Pimms, gin, lemonade and cranberry juice, and stir well. Add the lemon, mint … Continue reading Cranberry Pimm’s
Ingredients: 1 1/2 measures of vodka. 1 1/2 measures of Krupnik liqueur. 2 measures of Apple Juice. Instructions: Take Zubrowka and Krupnik from the freezer. Shake with crushed ice and strain the ingredients. Serve in an ice-cold 5oz Martini glass, no garnish. Continue reading The Polish Martini
Instructions: In an ice filled mixing glass, briefly stir together 5–10ml Vermouth with a dash of Angostura bitters. Add 60–90ml Single Barrel Rye (Michter’s Rye suits the purpose) and stir again until it’s as cold as a winter sea off the Frisian island of Föhr (where the Manhattan, surprisingly, is their national drink). Strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with a Maraschino cherry. Continue reading The Manhattan
Ingredients: 1 watermelon, medium, chopped, total weight 450g once prepped 1 lemon, large, juiced 75ml of Prosecco Rosemary syrup 2 sprigs of rosemary, large 100ml of water 100g of caster sugar Instructions: To begin, make the simple rosemary syrup. Add the sugar, water and rosemary to a medium saucepan and place over a low heat. Allow the sugar to slowly dissolve in the … Continue reading Watermelon & Prosecco Sorbet
Ingredients: 2 ounces Irish whiskey 1 ounce sweet vermouth 2 dashes orange bitters Instructions: Pour all ingredients into a mixing glass and fill with cracked ice. Stir well for 30 seconds and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a piece of orange or lemon peel, or nothing at all. Continue reading The Emerald
BY ANASTASIA CHOO Aside from flowers and breakfast in bed on Mother’s Day, impress the Mama in your life with one of these easy cocktails: Tea Tini – It’s tea time and Mum will sure enjoy this light short drink on a Spring afternoon. Ingredients: 50ml vodka 30ml iced tea (sweet) 10ml lemon juice (fresh) Garnish: lemon wedge Garnish: sugar for glass rim Method: Pour … Continue reading 7 Cocktails for Mother’s Day
Ingredients: Ice 6 tablespoons cranberry juice 3 tablespoons Vanilla Vodka 3 tablespoons ginger ale Candied ginger Instructions: Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. In the cocktail shaker combine cranberry juice and Vanilla Vodka (see below for recipe). Cover and shake about 10 seconds or until cold. Fill a chilled tall glass with ice; strain vodka mixture into glass. Slowly pour in ginger ale; stir gently … Continue reading Winter Cranberry Cocktail
Ingredients: 1 oz dry sherry 1 oz rosso vermouth 1 dash orange bitters 1 twist orange peel Instructions: Stir well over ice cubes in a mixing glass. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass, add a twist of orange peel, and serve. Continue reading Duke of Marlborough Cocktail
