Did you know that there is a little picture of a friar on the reverse of a Plymouth gin bottle? Here’s the story.
Tag: Gin
New cocktail ingredients – Summer 2020
Some great new cocktail ingredients are appearing for Summer 2020. Let’s get cocktail making again once lockdown finishes.
Gin starts off as vodka
Vodka and gin start off as the same base spirit. It’s the addition of botanicals such as juniper which start to differentiate gin from vodka. Vodka is the easiest base for cocktails of course, because it is the most neutrally flavoured of all the spirits.
Long Island Iced Tea – I’m really not sure
The Long Island Iced Tea. I’m really not sure about this cocktail. Not sure it’d make my Top 100 but it’s a well-known and popular cocktail. It lacks subtlety and if it was a car it’d be an American large block V8. A monster of a cocktail. 7 ingredients.