Some great new products tried at Imbibe Live ’16 the trade show for us drinks industry types! Stars of the show were Lanique rose liqueur and Solerno. But some great fruit juices, mixers and even popcorn recommended too.
Category: cocktail construction
Cocktail ingredients swapping out swapping in
Mixology allows us to be creative, making up new cocktails and messing with the old ones. While the variations are limitless of course, here I’ve written about variants of the classic Sidecar that I’ve been working on.
Make your own sugar syrup – it’s simple
Making your own simple syrup at home for your cocktails is easy. Equal volumes of granulated sugar and near boiling water in your glass bottle is the way to do it.
Not real cocktails
Cocktails that aren’t real cocktails. There is some kidology in the world of mixology. These are some cocktails that masquerade under fancy-sounding cocktail names, but in fact are just a spirit and mix. Nothing wrong with a spirit and mix, but nevertheless these aren’t cocktails. Not in my book at least.
How I got started cocktail making
A brief history of how a budding mixologist got started. The how and why, sort of. It all started by building up a collection of spirits and liqueurs over many years : wanting to have products to represent each of the major spirit and liqueur types.
The right way to add ingredients to your cocktail
While cocktail recipes generally list the spirit ingredients first, there is sense in putting your cocktail together in the reverse order : start with the mixers first.