Category: Cocktails

Our first cocktail is the Irish Buck[/i], which is very similar to an Irish Mule, but is a different cocktail.

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Our third and final cocktail is one of the classics; the William Porter. This is an almost Manhattan-like combination of blended Scotch, sweet vermouth and triple sec.

It’s named after an American journalist called William Porter, who founded a popular sports newspaper called the Spirit of the Times.

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The second cocktail this #FridayNightCocktails is the Hi-Octane Cherry Cola, a tasty and easy to make tall cocktail.

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Our first cocktail is the ultimate dessert cocktail; a Black Forest[/i] echoing the flavours of the popular Black Forest Gateau.

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Our third and final cocktail this Friday evening is the Churchill Manhattan; a smoky Manhattan variation created by Joe Gilmore, legendary bartender at The Savoy, in honour of the great man himself.

Oddly while we’ve posted many Manhattan[/link variations, we’ve not actually made the original.

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The second cocktail this #FridayNightCocktails is the

This is not the original recipe from Embury, but a tweaked version from .

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This is not the original recipe from Embury, but a tweaked version from Simon Difford.

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Today is Remembrance Day so I thought we’d open with The Remembrance Cocktail which was created by Erik Hakkinen went to work at Zig Zag in 2007.

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Seeing out #GuyFawkesNight / #BonfireNight #Cocktails with a bang, our third and final cocktail is the Soaring Rocket.

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The second cocktail this #GuyFawkesNight / #BonfireNight #Cocktails is a Hot Blooded Frenchman. This is a warm fruit wine based cocktail, the first warm one we’ve made, chosen in memory of Thomas Wintour, one of the conspirators of Guy Fawkes, who was a soldier in France before the gunpowder plot.

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Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Guy Fawkes Day, Bonfire Night and Fireworks Night, is an annual commemoration observed on 5 November, involving bonfires and fireworks displays.

Guy Fawkes Night originates from the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a failed conspiracy by a group of provincial English Catholics to assassinate the Protestant King James I of England and VI of Scotland and replace him with a Catholic head of state. In the immediate aftermath of the 5 November arrest of Guy Fawkes, caught guarding a cache of explosives placed beneath the House of Lords, James’s Council allowed the public to celebrate the king’s survival with bonfires, so long as they were “without any danger or disorder”. This made 1605 the first year the plot’s failure was celebrated.

We’ve got three cocktails this evening to help commemorate the night. Our first is the Gunpowder and Sand, a variant of the Blood and Sand, which is perfect for Guy Fawkes Night which replaces the Scotch with a gunpowder strength dark rum.

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