Category: Cocktails

Ingredient List for the #FridayNightCocktails on the 15th April

The Cocktails Must Flow April 12, 2022 No Comments
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To help you join in with the upcoming #FridayNightCocktails on the 15th April, 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.

Separate Ingredients

First Cocktail

Spirits

Apple Schnapps
Triple Sec
Vodka

Suggestions

[cocktail-ingredient name=”Berentzen Apple Schnapps”]
[cocktail-ingredient name=”Cointreau”]
[cocktail-ingredient name=”Absolut Vodka”]

Second Cocktail

Spirits

Triple Sec
Vodka

Suggestions

[cocktail-ingredient name=”Cointreau”]
[cocktail-ingredient name=”Absolut Vodka”]

Mixers

Lime Juice
Caster Sugar (Superfine)

Third Cocktail

Spirits

Cognac
Triple Sec
Dubonnet Red

Suggestions

[cocktail-ingredient name=”Martell VS Fine Cognac”]
[cocktail-ingredient name=”Cointreau”]
[cocktail-ingredient name=”Dubonnet Red”]

Mixers

Lemon Juice

Fourth Cocktail

Spirits

Brandy

Suggestions

[cocktail-ingredient name=”St-Rémy XO French Brandy”]

Mixers

Lemon Juice
Simple Syrup
Sparkling Water

Combined Ingredients

Spirits

Apple Schnapps
Brandy
Cognac
Dubonnet Red
Triple Sec
Vodka

Suggestions

[cocktail-ingredient name=”Berentzen Apple Schnapps”]
[cocktail-ingredient name=”St-Rémy XO French Brandy”]
[cocktail-ingredient name=”Martell VS Fine Cognac”]
[cocktail-ingredient name=”Dubonnet Red”]
[cocktail-ingredient name=”Cointreau”]
[cocktail-ingredient name=”Absolut Vodka”]

Mixers

Caster Sugar (Superfine)
Lemon Juice
Lime Juice
Simple Syrup
Sparkling Water

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.

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Between The Sheets

4th #cocktail of #FridayNightCocktails on the 8th April: Between The Sheets

The Cocktails Must Flow April 8, 2022 No Comments
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The fourth cocktail this evening is the Between the Sheets.

The Between the Sheets is a cocktail consisting of white rum (or other light rum), cognac, triple sec, and lemon juice.

The origin of the cocktail is usually credited to Harry MacElhone at Harry’s New York Bar in Paris in the 1930s as a derivative of the sidecar.[3][4] However, competing theories exist that claim the cocktail was created at The Berkeley in approximately 1921, or in French brothels as an apéritif for consumption by the prostitutes.

Between The Sheets (cocktail) – from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Sex On The Beach

2nd #cocktail of #FridayNightCocktails on the 8th April: Sex on the Beach

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The Sex on the Beach is contains vodka, peach schnapps, orange juice and cranberry juice. It is an International Bartenders Association Official Cocktail, although we’ve used half the measures of the official recipe. The Woo Woo we posted last week is a variation of this drink without the orange juice.

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Grasshopper

1st #cocktail of #FridayNightCocktails on the 8th April: Grasshopper

The Cocktails Must Flow April 8, 2022 No Comments
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The Grasshopper is a sweet, mint-flavoured, after-dinner drink, the name of which derives from its green color, which comes from creme de menthe. A bar in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, Tujague’s, claims the drink was invented in 1918 by its owner, Philip Guichet. The drink gained popularity during the 1950s and 1960s throughout the American South and came to my attention in the TV show The Big Bang Theory.

This is one of the few, if not the only, mint cocktails I’ve tried which I actually like.

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Ingredient List for the #FridayNightCocktails on the 8th April

The Cocktails Must Flow April 5, 2022 No Comments
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To help you join in with the upcoming #FridayNightCocktails on the 8th April, 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.

Separate Ingredients

First Cocktail

Spirits

Green Creme de Menthe
White Creme de Cacao
Single Cream

Suggestions

[cocktail-ingredient name=”De Kuyper Creme de Menthe Liqueurs”][cocktail-ingredient name=”Giffard Creme De Cacoa White Liqueur”]

Mixers

Single Cream

Second Cocktail

Spirits

Peach Schnapps
Vodka

Suggestions

[cocktail-ingredient name=”Archers Peach Schnapps”][cocktail-ingredient name=”Absolut Vodka”]

Mixers

Cranberry Juice
Orange Juice

Suggestions

[cocktail-ingredient name=”Ocean Spray Classic Cranberry Juice with No Added Sugar”][cocktail-ingredient name=”Eager Squeezed Smooth Orange Juice”]

Third Cocktail

Spirits

Amaretto
Coffee Liqueur
Irish Cream
Vodka

Suggestions

[cocktail-ingredient name=”Disaronno Originale”][cocktail-ingredient name=”Bailey’s Irish Cream”][cocktail-ingredient name=”Kahlua Coffee Liqueur”][cocktail-ingredient name=”Absolut Vodka”]

Mixers

Milk (Whole)
Single Cream

Fourth Cocktail

Spirits

Cognac
Triple Sec
White Rum

Suggestions

[cocktail-ingredient name=”Martell VS Fine Cognac”][cocktail-ingredient name=”Giffard Pacifico Triple Sec Liqueur”][cocktail-ingredient name=”Silver Moon White Rum by Lost Years”]

Mixers

Lemon juice

Combined Ingredients

Spirits

Amaretto
Cognac
Coffee Liqueur
Green Creme de Menthe
Irish Cream
Peach Schnapps
Triple Sec
Vodka
White Creme de Cacao
White Rum

Suggestions

[cocktail-ingredient name=”Disaronno Originale”][cocktail-ingredient name=”Martell VS Fine Cognac”][cocktail-ingredient name=”Kahlua Coffee Liqueur”][cocktail-ingredient name=”De Kuyper Creme de Menthe Liqueurs”][cocktail-ingredient name=”Bailey’s Irish Cream”][cocktail-ingredient name=”Archers Peach Schnapps”][cocktail-ingredient name=”Giffard Pacifico Triple Sec Liqueur”][cocktail-ingredient name=”Absolut Vodka”][cocktail-ingredient name=”Giffard Creme De Cacoa White Liqueur”][cocktail-ingredient name=”Silver Moon White Rum by Lost Years”]

Mixers

Lemon juice
Cranberry Juice
Lemon juice
Milk
Orange juice
Single cream

Suggestions

[cocktail-ingredient name=”Ocean Spray Classic Cranberry Juice with No Added Sugar”][cocktail-ingredient name=”Eager Squeezed Smooth Orange Juice”]

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.

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