An incredible bartender who developed not one but two of the world’s top 40 cocktails.
Category: England
Plymouth gin and the story of the friar
Did you know that there is a little picture of a friar on the reverse of a Plymouth gin bottle? Here’s the story.
Rhubarb Martini
Rhubarb Martini is a classy type of martini with it’s unusual and very English base flavour.
Wayne Collins and me
I met Wayne Collins star of TV’s Something for the Weekend back in 2015. What did we talk about?
New products mixologists need please drinks industry
Here are some additional products I’d like to see the drinks industry produce for us mixologists.
Gin starts off as vodka
Vodka and gin start off as the same base spirit. It’s the addition of botanicals such as juniper which start to differentiate gin from vodka. Vodka is the easiest base for cocktails of course, because it is the most neutrally flavoured of all the spirits.
Tipping Point – modern and English cocktail
Try this aperitivo style cocktail with mainly English ingredients. It combines equal quantities of Kamm & Sons aperitif with Chase Marmalade vodka and half as much Martini Rosso. Slightly bitter in flavour, this is a great pre-dinner cocktail. More here.
Chase vodkas – premium and English
Chase was, and still is one of the vanguard of small British distillers who created the new artisanal wave of distilleries. With Chase making potato based vodka in Herefordshire and Sipsmith distilling gin in London, many, many others have followed.
That difficult first blog entry
Cocktails and what goes into them is my interest. This is what this mixology blog will focus on. New cocktails, reconstructed classics, new ideas, bars and the ingredients of course.