Category: cocktails

And shown in a 45 second video. Delicious! Farandaville recipe – as above. Most recipes do not include the one dash of orange bitters. And the honey syrup and lemon amounts are personal preference. Experiment. And nothing wrong with making this directly in the old fashioned glass – as long as you stir it A…

Called “the Mickey Mantle of bourbon bottles”, sold by a specialist booze auction house.

A classy cocktail. And a short video. We mostly use the recipe above – most recipes just use simple syrup but you CANNOT beat Demerara if you can find it. (Tip – you can get it on Amazon). This cocktail is close to a sidecar. It pays to try different variations – yellow chartreuse instead…

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…

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…

Another three ingredient cocktail – cognac, orange liqueur, and lemon juice – which changes as you vary the ratios. You don't have to sugar the rim, and you can add demarara syrup. The link below the video shows four variations and answers the question of which came first, the cocktail or the motorcycle attachment.  …

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.