Category: Cocktails

Our first cocktail is the Whisky & Orange, a simple, refreshing two ingredient cocktail, pairing the sweet tartness of orange juice with Scotch whisky.

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International Scotch Day is on the 8^th February where everyone can join in and celebrate Scotch whisky.

Uisge beatha / The Water of Life / Scotch Whisky has been around for over 500 years; the Exchequer Rolls, the tax records of their time, in 1494 was the earliest documented record of distilling in Scotland. We thought we’d join in the celebration of Scotch whisky with a cocktail this evening.

We’ve already made the Rob Roy cocktail, which was named after Scottish folk hero Rob Roy. Looking for an alternative, we decided upon the White Rob Roy.

This was originally created by Howard Sundwall, a member of Difford’s Guide as the Rob Roy en Blanc (Rob Roy in White), before Simon Difford varied it, by reducing the Scotch by 10ml, into the White Rob Roy.

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Our third and final cocktail is the Chambord Daquiri, a raspberry variant of the Daquiri.

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Our second cocktail this evening is the Midori, Lemon & Ginger Beer. This is a simple, refreshing tall cocktail which combines the sweet taste of Midori melon liqueur and the spice of ginger beer.

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Our first cocktail is the Mango Screwdriver, a simple variant of the Screwdriver which replaces the orange juice with mango juice.

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Our third and final cocktail is the Arsenic & Old Lace which is named after a 1939 play by Joseph Kesselring which opened in January 1941 and was later made into a movie of the same name starring Cary Grant (1944).

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Our second cocktail is a vintage cocktail from the 1920s, named for a French fencer who won gold with two different swords at the Olympics in Paris (1924) and Amsterdam (1928), which is credited to a barman at Le Cheval Pie (The Piebald Horse) in Paris, France.

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Our first cocktail is the Sangaree which is a very old cocktail, dating back to the early-18th century. It first appeared in writing in a 1736 issue of the British Gentleman’s Magazine, “… a punch seller in the Strand had devised a new punch made of strong Madeira wine and called Sangre” (“Sangre” being the Spanish word for “blood”)..

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The 25^th January is the birthday of Robert Burns, a Scottish poet and lyricist who is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide.

Despite, most likely, being named for a cigar salesman called Bobby Burns, this cocktail is a popular cocktail for the Scots when raising a glass to famous Scottish poet Robert Burns on his birthday.

There are a few cocktails called Bobby Burns which are all fairly similar; we’ve opted to use one closely related to the one published in the 1930 book The Savoy cocktail BOok by Henry Craddock.

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Our third and final cocktail is the Sapphire Alpine cocktail. This is best made with Bombay Sapphire London Dry Gin as the botanticals of this gin make for a good contrast with the sweet orange and peach flavoured liqueurs.

This cocktail will easily scale up to punch sized as the ratio is a simple 1:1:1 of the three ingredients.

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