Category: Cocktails

Our first cocktail is the Blue Monday; adapted from the 1930 book The Savoy Cocktail Book by Harry Craddock, the Blue Monday is a vodka based cocktail; this recipe uses blue Curacao where Craddock’s recipe called for blue food colouring.

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Our third and final cocktail is the Sloe Screw Against The Wall. Also known as the “Slow Screw Against The Wall”, this is a variant of the Slow Screw and Harvey wallbanger; the Galliano float from the latter gives this cocktail the “against the wall” part of the name.

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Our second cocktail is the Root 56. Inspired by ginger root and promoted by Jägermeister, which includes ginger root as one of the 56 hers and spices in Jägermeister Herbal Liqueur.

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xOur first cocktail is the Alexander #2 (Classic Brandy Alexander). Thought to have been created in the late 1920s, it was included by Harry Craddock in his The Savoy cocktail Book in 1930. An equal measure Brandy Alexander.

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Our third and final cocktail is the Poet’s Dream. A classic cocktail of unknown origin, which made it’s first appearance in print in the 1931 Old Waldorf Bar Days book..

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Our second cocktail is the Perfect Rob Roy. A Rob Roy variant which replaces half of the sweet vermouth with dry vermouth.

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Our first cocktail is the Velvet Hammer, a creamy, but potent dessert cocktail.

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Our third and final cocktail is the Sloe Royale. Perfect for Christmas or other winter events where you need a cocktail easy to make in bulk.

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Our second cocktail is the Sloe Negroni. A Negroni variant which adds sloe gin as a fourth ingredient.

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Our first cocktail is the Valencia Cocktail (No. 2.), a classic cocktail from Harry Craddock’s 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.

The quintessential Christmas cocktail in England is the Bucks Fizz which we did last year. This classic cocktail from Harry Craddock seemed a good one along the same lines.

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