Category: Cocktails

Our third and final cocktail is the Brunswick. A rye whiskey variant of the New York Sour.

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Our second cocktail is the Cosmopolitan (1934). There are a few recipes for Cosmopolitans floating around, but, as we tend to prefer more classic versions of cocktails, we’ve gone for a Cosmopolitan recipe dating back to 1934.

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Our first cocktail is the Blue Alexander, a blue-coloured variant of the gin-based Alexander.

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Our third and final cocktail is the Maple Old Fashioned, a bourbon and maple variant of the Old Fashioned.

As well as the original, we’ve already made a few variants of the Old Fashioned.

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Our second cocktail is the El Presidente. , which is a Cuban alcoholic drink made of rum, orange curaçao, vermouth, and grenadine. The original recipe calls for white vermouth.

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Our first cocktail is the Key Lime Pie Martini, a cocktail version of the AMerican dessert pie.

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Our third and final cocktail is the South by Southwest. A Negroni variant which uses Islay Scotch whisky instead of gin; created by Benny McKew using Ardbeg Islay Single Malt Scotch 10 Year Old.

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Our second cocktail is the Old Gal. This is a variant of the Old Pal“, created by Phil Ward at Long Island Bar, Brooklyn, New York City, USA.

Basically, it is a variant of a 1920s Negroni variant.

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Our first cocktail is the Springbokkie (“little springbok” in the Afrikaans language) which is a cocktail shooter that is popular in South Africa; it is composed of crème de menthe and Amarula

The drink derives its name from the country’s national animal, and the colors from the team jersey colours (green and gold) of the South Africa national rugby union team, which is known as “The Springboks”. The ratio of Amarula to crème de menthe can vary substantially between recipes.

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Our third and final cocktail is the Paper Plane, which is perhaps the ideal aperitivo.

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