Category: Cocktails

A gin based fruity red grape cocktail served over ice.

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The Joy Division, named after the band, is attributed to Phil Ward at Death & Co. in New York, and is sometimes called an Age of Consent after the New Order song.

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The Blood and Sand is one of the few classic cocktails to use whisky; in this case a blended Scotch. It was named after Rudolph Valentino‘s 1922 bullfighter movie Blood and Sand.

I’ve been a large whisk(e)y drinker for the last 15 years. I’ve always had it neat until fairly recently. f the ways to mix it, this cocktail is a fantastic whiskey based one. It also makes my list of favourite cocktails.

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We’ve done quite a few dessert cocktails now, but this one is by far my favourite. The Golden Dream is shaken and served straight up, without ice.

The drink should be quite fluffy in texture. I don’t usually make this one following the IBA ingredients, which we have used in the recipe, but use 35ml each of the first three ingredients and 25 of the cream. This is simply because, until recently, the only small measures I had were of those sizes. I’ve recently bought a measuring glass which goes from 5ml to 30ml making it easier to get the measures right.

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The Kamikaze is one of the cocktails created in the 60s or 70s in the American cocktail scene using vodka for its fabled lack of flavour.

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Thought to have been created by ‘Professor’ Jerry Thomas in 1860 to commemorate the first Japanese mission to the USA.

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A Japanese slipper is a drink made from Midori, Cointreau, and lemon juice. It was created in 1984 by Jean-Paul Bourguignon at Mietta’s Restaurant in Melbourne.

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An easy-to-make whiskey sour using Jack Daniel’s Gentleman Jack Tennessee Whiskey.

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To help you join in with the upcoming #FridayNightCocktails on the 6^th May, we’ve compiled the ingredient list in two formats:

• Separate ingredient lists for the four cocktails we’ll be making, but without quantities or the cocktail names.
• Combined the ingredients into an alphabetical list so as to not “give the game away”.

We’ve hidden the two lists behind toggles so you can choose which list you want to use; this is a new method and we’d appreciate feedback on how well you think it works.

There can be quite a few spirits used each time we do a Friday night cocktails, but the same spirits are generally used over and over again. Strong spirits like whiskey, gin, vodka and so on will last months to a year or two once opened (how long will depend on how often the bottle is opened).

A simple cocktail combining a London dry gin with Dubonnet red.

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