Rory Eaton of the Cheval Blanc in Moseley, Birmingham is our first bartender on The Vermouth Ambassador’s Cocktail Showcase. These will showcase the best vermouth cocktails we come across and the bartenders who create them. Over to Rory to tell … Continued
How to avoid hangovers is the holy grail for drinkers and bartenders everywhere, especially when drinking on a school night. Here are the best ways to avoid, or at least make them survivable according to science. This video is from … Continued
Time to celebrate heritage! Give this a try – our all English twist on the classic Negroni to celebrate St George’s Day here in England. Check out our classic Negroni recipe here, or the related Apollo Cocktail that we created … Continued
After a brief break for some busy times at work we’re back with the Apollo Cocktail. Space Season is a way for me to indulge a couple of nerd areas for me in one go, space and cocktails. What’s not … Continued
Bodega in Birmingham (and Leicester, Worcester and Derby) have just launched a new cocktail menu that I. worked on over the past couple of months and there is a surprise hit cocktail on the list – The Strawberry Mezcal Julep. … Continued
A week or so ago I was asked to come up with a short menu for the stars of the classic tv show Starsky & Hutch. They’d booked out one of our venue’s function rooms and wanted some custom cocktails … Continued
The Alan Shepard Cocktail is in honour of the second man to travel in space. Shepard was also the first to be in on board control of a spacecraft, while Yuri Gagarin’s Vostok 1 had emergency controls available only. Shepard’s … Continued
It’s Space Season at BartenderHQ! On the show we’re talking about what Space Season is all about, why I love geeky space stuff so much and eventually, we even talk a little about cocktails – specifically the Gagarin Cocktail made with … Continued
The first drink of our space season is here – the Yuri Gagarin Cocktail. Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was the first human to journey into space. His Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. Gagarin’s single orbit of the … Continued
Well, it had to be done. I’m currently stranded in Birmingham City centre as Storm Doris (okay, the Americans are better at naming storms) rages outside. It’s brought down trees and there are now no trains running… so let’s talk … Continued
