Category: cocktails

  • Friday cocktail – The Bee Knees

    A prohibition era cocktail. Is this guy enthusiastic – Jamaican but not using rum! This is a light cocktail with the gin kicking in at the end. If you don’t think you like gin, try this drink. Garnishes. We hardly ever garnish drinks at our house – sometimes we drop a cherry in. But I’m…

  • Friday cocktail (Yes it’s back!) – The Alaska

    Delicious – if you like gin martini you should try this. The trick is finding yellow chartreuse. We like the recipe exactly as Steve the Bartender shows, but with two dashes of orange bitters instead of one. You can experiment with proportions; maybe 2 oz. of gin or a bit more than half an ounce…

  • “4 Spooky Halloween Cocktails for Grown-ups”

    I like this guy. A professional bartender, he started this channel during the pandemic. I outgrew lite beer in 2005, congruent with starting my chemotherapy and have picked up several cocktail ideas from him in the last few months. The El Diablo is the easiest to make.