Monin syrups with their extensive range of flavours are an essential for any mixologist. They open up a world of flavour possibilities in flavour combinations.
Tag: cocktail ingredients
Tequila brands to avoid – Some big names
Make sure that the tequila you drink is the proper stuff. Made with 100% agave. The rest of it, known as mixto brands is frequently pretty ropey. Let me explain.
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 ……
Infusions are the way forward for cocktails
Infusions are a great way of creating new cocktails and cocktail flavours. Having bought an infuser, I now have the opportunity to add a range of herbs, spices and other flavourings to base spirits and liqueurs.
Make your own cocktails at home
Making cocktails at home is a lot of fun and can add a really interesting talking point to your dinner party at home, girls night in – whatever.
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.
Vodka – an interesting fact about …
An interesting fact about vodka is about how Smirnoff the Russian distillery got going in 1886. Now the largest selling spirit in the world.
Do you refrigerate your vermouth?
Do you refrigerate your dry / white vermouth? I never have in the past And yet experts suggest that we should. To keep it fresh. Use it quickly too. And it stands to reason doesn’t it? It’s a white wine with added ingredients in isn’t it?
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.
Sweet vermouths compared
A taste test comparing 4 very different red vermouths. This is a staple ingredient in classic cocktails and yet you wouldn’t normally sip them on their own. So a great opportunity to try them in turn – hopefully to make better, more informed cocktail choices. That’s the theory at least.
Where are the English vermouth distillers?
Vermouths are a key part of cocktail making, particularly old-fashioned prohibition era cocktails. And as English sparkling wine is on a roll at the moment, vermouths which are wine-based anyway are ripe, for development by English winemakers. There are a host of new vermouths hitting the market at the moment, but few are English. Time for this to change.
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.