With a warmer spring hopefully on the way (although apparently not according to the forecast), we thought we’d include refreshing gin and lemonade cocktail. Best made with a good quality London Dry Gin and San Pellegrino Limonata.
Category: Cocktails
2nd #cocktail of #FridayNightCocktails on the 29th April: Old Fashioned
An old-fashioned was one of the simpler and earlier versions of cocktails, before the development of advanced bartending techniques and recipes in the later part of the 19th century.
The old fashioned is the cocktail of choice of Don Draper, the lead character on the Mad Men television series, set in the 1960s.[20] The use of the drink in the series coincided with a renewed interest in this and other classic cocktails in the 2000s.
It was also the basis of an oft-quoted line from the movie It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, when boozy pilot Jim Backus decides to make the cocktail and leaves passenger Buddy Hackett to fly the plane. When Rooney asks, “What if something happens?”, Backus replies, “What could happen to an old-fashioned?” This scene is satirized in Archer season 3 episode 1 (“Heart of Archness”) when Sterling Archer attempts to make an old fashioned on Rip Riley’s seaplane but lacks the basic ingredients.
Old Fashioned (cocktail) – from Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Orgasm is another cocktail with a dollop of innuendo; a smaller version of the Screaming Orgasm To help you join in with the upcoming #FridayNightCocktails on the 29th April, we’ve compiled the ingredient list in two formats: 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. Amaretto [cocktail-ingredient name=”Disaronno Originale”][cocktail-ingredient name=”Kahlua Coffee Liqueur”][cocktail-ingredient name=”Bailey’s Irish Cream”] Single Cream Aromatic Bitters [cocktail-ingredient name=”Angostura Aromatic Bitters”][cocktail-ingredient name=”Maker’s Mark bourbon Whisky”] Simple Syrup Maraschino Cherry London Dry Gin [cocktail-ingredient name=”Sipsmith London Dry Gin”] San Pellegrino Limonata [cocktail-ingredient name=”San Pellegrino Classic Taste Lemon Slim Cans”][cocktail-ingredient name=”Harrogate Sparkling Spring Water”] Lemon Wheel London Dry Gin [cocktail-ingredient name=”Sipsmith London Dry Gin”] Amaretto [cocktail-ingredient name=”Disaronno Originale”][cocktail-ingredient name=”Angostura Aromatic Bitters”][cocktail-ingredient name=”Maker’s Mark Bourbon Whisky”][cocktail-ingredient name=”Kahlua Coffee Liqueur”][cocktail-ingredient name=”Dubonnet Red”][cocktail-ingredient name=”Bailey’s Irish Cream”][cocktail-ingredient name=”Sipsmith London Dry Gin”] San Pellegrino Limonata [cocktail-ingredient name=”San Pellegrino Classic Taste Lemon Slim Cans”][cocktail-ingredient name=”Harrogate Sparkling Spring Water”] Maraschino Cherry 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. Fortified wines such as dry and sweet vermouth, port and Dubonnet will keep for a few weeks before deteriorating. If stored in the fridge, dry vermouth will be good for about four weeks, sweet vermouth and Dubonnet for two months and port for up to three months. A variation of the John Collins using Old Tom Gin rather than London Dry Gin. This is the Pink Gin cocktail using Plymouth Gin, not one of the fruit-flavoured pink gins which many gin distilleries now sell. Pink gin is widely thought to have been created by members of the Royal Navy. Plymouth gin is a ‘sweet’ gin, as opposed to London gin which is ‘dry’, and was added to Angostura bitters to make the consumption of Angostura bitters more enjoyable[3] as they were used as a treatment for sea sickness in 1824 by Dr. Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert. The Royal Navy then brought the idea for the drink to bars in England,[5] where this method of serving was first noted on the mainland. By the 1870s, gin was becoming increasingly popular and many of the finer establishments in England were serving pink gins. The John Collins is a classic cocktail dating back to the 1800s. It is believed to have originated with a headwaiter of that name who worked at Limmer’s Old House in Conduit Street in Mayfair, which was a popular London hotel and coffee house around 1790–1817. The English Garden cocktail is the perfect cocktail with which to celebrate the English garden and that most English of days; St George’s Day. There seems to be may variations of cocktails called English Garden; this is our take. The Sneaky Pete is another variation of the White Russian using the spicy rye whiskey which works well alongside the coffee liqueur. The Mudslide is a variation of the White Russian which works well as a dessert cocktail. 1st #cocktail of #FridayNightCocktails on the 29th April: Orgasm
Ingredient List for the #FridayNightCocktails on the 29th April
Separate Ingredients
First Cocktail
Spirits
Coffee Liqueur
Irish CreamSuggestions
Mixers
Second Cocktail
Spirits
bourbonSuggestions
Mixers
WaterGarnish
Orange WheelThird Cocktail
Spirits
Suggestions
Mixers
Sparkling WaterSuggestions
Garnish
Fourth Cocktail
Spirits
Dubonnet RedSuggestions
[cocktail-ingredient name=”Dubonnet Red”]Combined Ingredients
Spirits
Aromatic Bitters
bourbon
Coffee Liqueur
Dubonnet Red
Irish Cream
London Dry GinSuggestions
Mixers
Simple Syrup
Single Cream
Sparkling Water
WaterSuggestions
Garnish
Orange Wheel
Lemon Wheel 4th #cocktail of #StGeorgesDayDrinks on #StGeorgesDay, 23rd April: Tom Collins
3rd #cocktail of #StGeorgesDayDrinks on StGeorgesDay, 23rd April: Pink Gin
2nd #cocktail of #StGeorgesDayDrinks on #StGeorgesDay, 23rd April: John Collins
1st #cocktail of #StGeorgesDayDrinks on #StGeorgesDay, 23rd April: English Garden
4th #cocktail of #FridayNightCocktails on the 22nd April: Sneaky Pete
3rd #cocktail of #FridayNightCocktails on the 22nd April: Mudslide