The Cocktails Must Flow

To help you join in with the upcoming #FridayNightCocktails on the 22^nd 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.

A burst of good weather has us thinking of some tall cocktails, but the forecast for the 22^nd isn’t so good, so we’ve gone for some more wintry cocktails.

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.

St George’s Day, England’s Patron Saints Day, is on the 23^rd April (the religious celebration date moves around as, for the Church of England, when St. George’s Day falls between Palm Sunday and the Second Sunday of Easter, the St George’s Day celebration is moved to the Monday after the Second Sunday of Easter).

We’ll be doing a few English cocktails to celebrate the day.

This is in addition to the #FridayNightCocktails on Friday 22^nd.

The Brandy Collins is a variation of the Tom Collins which switches out the gin for brandy. I’m more of a fan of brandy than I am gin, so I prefer this variation.

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I’m not much of a one for wines, but Dubonnet Red is used in some really nice cocktails, including the Crux.

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The Lime Drop martini is a genuinely tasty citrus cocktail.

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The Appletini is a classic 90s cocktail wich originated at Lola’s West Hollywood restaurant.

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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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