The watermelon martini is a great, refreshing summer cocktail. If you can find watermelon juice that is.
Category: fruit juice cocktails
Cocktails featuring pineapple juice
Pineapple juice is a great ingredient in cocktails. And it’s not just about the flavour but texture too.
2 summer cocktails to try at home
2 summer cocktails to try at home. One a modern day favourite. The other an in-house creation.
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.
Why a slow comfortable screw is not as daft as it sounds
Many cocktails have very rude names. But it is the Slow Comfortable Screw which started the trend, and it is a very clever name. Let me explain ……
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.
OMD – an alternative mocktail
The OMD is a refreshing, fruity, authentic mocktail. A great alcohol free drink for summer. The name means something of course. It tells you what is in the drink. Although for pop fans from the 80s it means something else too.
Merry Berry Cherry – refreshing alcohol-free cocktail
The Merry Berry Cherry is a great and fruity mocktail, and an in-house creation. Easy to make, 3 ingredients, shaken with ice.
China Blue – visually stunning mocktail
A great chance to discover some new mocktails for dry January. This one, is based on the old 80s classic the Blue Lagoon.
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.
A Slow Comfortable Screw – what a fantastic name for a cocktail
The Slow Comfortable Screw is a 70s cocktail. Maybe a classic cocktail. At least the name is one of the more memorable and famous ones – no doubt. But this article is about the name. The most inspired cocktail name of them all? It spawned the whole range of rude and sexually explicit names for cocktails. Here’s the story.