Tom Collins
Ingredients
2 Parts Gin
¾ Part Lemon Juice
¾ Part Simple Syrup
Soda Water
1 Wheel Lemon
How to mix
Stir lemon juice, gin and simple syrup in a highball glass. Fill with ice cubes. Top up with soda water. Garnish with lemon.
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Ginger Spice
GINGER SPICE
An easy to make cocktail that suits relaxed occasions and nights out alike. Brings out the fruit and spice notes found in the nose and palate of Martell VS, and those of biscuit and gingerbread throughout.
INGREDIENTS
- 35ml Martell VS
- 15ml blackcurrant, pear or blackberry liqueur
- 10ml lemon juice
- Ginger beer to top
Build ingredients in a hi-ball glass over cubed ice and garnish with a lemon slice.
Irish Coffee – Whisky Cocktail
Ingredients •4 ounces strong, rich hot coffee •1 1/2 ounce Irish whiskey •2 teaspoons brown sugar •1 ounce lightly whipped double cream Preparation 1. Pour the sugar then coffee into a warm Irish coffee glass, mug, or other heat-proof glass. 2. Stir until dissolved. 3. Add the Irish whiskey and stir again. 4. Float the cream on top by pouring it over the back of a spoon. Do not stir again, instead, drink the coffee through the cream.
Mint Julep
Apart from the martini, the mint julep could be the most iconic cocktail in America. It is a drink that’s synonymous with the Kentucky Derby Day where large amounts of Mint Juleps are sipped under dressy hats. The Mint Julep is a cocktail of bourbon, simple syrup and mint served over crushed ice and it’s so easy you can make it yourself.
MINT JULEP RECIPE
15 gms superfine sugar
30 ml hot water
8 mint leaves, plus one mint sprig
60 ml bourbon
Dissolve the sugar in the water in an old-fashioned glass or a julep cup. Add the mint leaves and press them lightly with a spoon. Add the bourbon, fill the glass with cracked ice, and stir. Plant the mint sprig in the ice alongside a short straw, and serve.
Plantation Pineapple Rum Stiggins Fancy
Maison Ferrand, the French producer of Cognacs, gin, rums and other spirits recently released the Plantation Pineapple Rum ‘Stiggins’ Fancy. The Rum is named after Reverend Stiggins, a religious hypocrite from ‘The Pickwick Papers’, he often preached temperance between sips of his favourite pineapple rum.
Pineapple rum sounds like something that might have been released to fill a gap between mango rum and star fruit rum. But it dates back to the late 1700s or earlier.
It was a thing distillers used to do,” said David Wondrich, the cocktail historian who played a part in the new product. “It was done in the islands. They’d soak pineapple in the barrel; it gave the rum a sweetness and richness. It was not wildly popular, but you’d see it.”
The idea to bring it back came when Alexandre Gabriel, Ferrand’s president and owner, asked Mr. Wondrich, if he had “any other bright ideas,” as Mr. Wondrich put it.
Mr. Gabriel was inspired by old recipes and his own expertise. He steeped the flesh of pineapples in his Plantation Original Dark Rum, an aged rum. Seeking more aroma and flavour, he distilled the pineapple rind with his Plantation 3 Stars White Rum. The two rums were blended and left in a barrel to age together.
Mr. Gabriel intended the new liquor never-to-be-repeated, something to show off as a novelty. But when he poured some out at the 2014 Tales of the Cocktail, the annual liquor convention in New Orleans, he received such a strong response. After several demands for more, he eventually decided to release it commercially, with a suggested retail price of $30.
The rum’s subtlety appealed to bartenders. It is a rum with pineapple notes, rather than a pineapple-y rum. The rum seems to lend itself well to classic cocktails.
