Great cocktail for summer. The Strawberry Vanilla Martini. My recipe here.
Category: cocktails at home
Mudslide
The Mudslide is a creamy cocktail featuring Baileys as a key ingredient. Here’s the recipe.
Cocktail shots are fun
Cocktail shots are a great, fun way of offering your guests some sample cocktails. Try it.
Caribbean Ginger Iced Tea
This is my twist on the 90s classic and an attempt to make it more interesting.
AWOL cocktail
This is an interesting and striking cocktail based around the melon liqueur Midori.
New cocktail ingredients – Summer 2020
Some great new cocktail ingredients are appearing for Summer 2020. Let’s get cocktail making again once lockdown finishes.
Tequila Sunrise – simplicity itself
The Tequila Sunrise is a straightforward and easy cocktail to make. It’s fairly inexpensive too. My preferred variation on this is the spicy tequila sunrise with a small dash of jalapeno syrup. Gives this simple cocktail the pep it’s always needed.
How long do spirits and liqueurs last?
How long do spirits and liqueurs last? This is a question I get asked frequently as we do our talks around the Midlands on spirits, liqueurs and cocktail making. The good news is that the majority of them last indefinitely. There are some exceptions though, and some bits of general advice here…
French Martini – doesn’t quite do it somehow
French Martini is a modern cocktail which is well known, if not quite a classic. It combines vodka, with Chambord black raspberry liqueur and pineapple juice. All nice ingredients, but somehow I don’t this combination works. See what you think.
Going dry for January?
Going dry for January? It’s good to ease off in the new year, so 4 top mocktail recipes will appear here over the next 4 weeks.
Sandbar – easier than a Pina Colada
The Sandbar is a great cocktail developed in-house based on the flavour profile of the classic Pina Colada. Summer in a glass.
6 overrated cocktails
6 overrated cocktails. Some just don’t work while others aren’t real cocktails.