Many cocktails are iterative. By just swapping one ingredient perhaps and replacing it with another creates a whole new cocktail. Often with a completely unrelated name.
Tag: classic cocktails reconstructed
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.
Spiced Negroni – an interesting twist on a classic
Many will argue that the iconic Negroni shouldn’t be messed with. However this for me is the the best Negroni around. The Spiced Negroni featuring the fabulous Audemus pink pepper gin, Sacred Spirits spiced red vermouth and a little Campari.
Black Mexicana – new Tequila cocktail
The Black Mexicana is a golden tequila based cocktail. Crammed full of Mexican ingredients it is a modern twist on a White Russian – sort of. The chilli infused tequila I put together myself, but there is a lot of flavour to this cocktail. Chilli infused reposado tequila, Patron XO Cafe, Monin liquorice syrup and cream are what you need.
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.
Caribbean Black Iced Tea – an attempt to improve the Long Island Iced Tea
The Caribbean Black Iced Tea is a variant of the traditional Long Island Iced Tea. The key difference though is that I’ve swapped out the white spirits and replaced them with the more mellow, more complex, frankly better dark spirits.