The Dirty Barbados Cocktail, created by Chef James Wayman of the Oyster Club, Mystic, CT is an amazing twist on the classic Daiquiri with The Real McCoy 5 year old [ … ]
Category: Drinks Recipes
Bee’s Knees Cocktail – Rock Rose Gin
The Bee’s Knees Cocktail was created in the prohibition era, and like many others was a way of masking the lower quality spirits of the day. While legitimate spirits were [ … ]
The Alexander Cocktail Family
The Alexander Cocktail family is well known, mainly for the Brandy Alexander Cocktail, though that’s not where it started out. According to Harry Craddock’s Savoy Cocktail Book, the Alexander Cocktail [ … ]
Cocktails of the Movies (infographic)
Do you like your martini shaken or stirred?While you may not have a hard preference, I bet you know a movie character that has a pretty clear standpoint on this [ … ]
3 Bulldog Cocktail Recipes
While researching the Bulldog cocktail for this article I came across three very different recipes, so we’ll talk about them all. Lets start with what I was looking for, the [ … ]
El Presidente Cocktail
Created in the early 20th Century, the El Presidente cocktail was popular in the 1920s to 1940s. As with many prohibition era cocktails, its experienced a renaissance in recent years. [ … ]
Cupid Cocktail Recipe
The Cupid Cocktail is featured in the Savoy Cocktail book – one of the standards for craft bartenders everywhere. The Savoy’s classic book on cocktails is an incredible resource for [ … ]
Sazerac Cocktail
The Sazerac is a variant of the Old Fashioned cocktail which originated in New Orleans. In essence an Old Fashioned with an absinthe rinsed glass and no ice, it has [ … ]
Cassini Death Dive Cocktail
Today, NASA’s spacecraft will end it’s 20 year mission to Saturn by flying into the gas giant. To celebrate, I’ve created the Cassini Death Dive Cocktail in it’s honour! After [ … ]
Dark Matter Storm Cocktail
The Dark Matter Storm is a twist of the classic Dark’n’Stormy using the unique flavour of Dark Matter rum. Dark Matter is a dark spiced rum produced in Scotland with a [ … ]