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Friday Cocktails: This Friday, it's all about the smoke!
Two different old-fashioned cocktails. The first Bourbon, maple syrup, orange, and chocolate bitters smoked with Rosemary. Garnish with burnt Rosemary.
The second Calvados, with honey syrupy and Angostura Bitters. Smoked with Apple wood chips.
January 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Saturdays Cocktail Louisville Stinger

1 Ounce Bourbon
1 Ounce Light Rum
1/2 Ounce Creme de Cacao
1/4 Ounce Creme de Menthe
Garnish with a chocolate mint!
January 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Banoffee Daiquiri & Japanese Vespa

50ml Caribbean Aged Rum
20ml Lime Juice
15ml Gifford Banane du bresil Liqueur
10ml Maple Syrup
4 Dashes Bob's Daiquiri Bitters
3 drops saline solution

3 Ounces Roku Gin
1 Ounce Ukiyo Rice Vodka
1/2 Ounce Mancino Vermouth
Twist of lemon Peel
January 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Storing albums in a Fortnum and Masons hamper is probably not ideal, but needs must! Anyway Sugarcubes is probably ok! "Stick Around for Joy" released 1992 is a must album!
January 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Friday Cocktails: Millionaires Martini

From the @diffordsguide these perfect Martinis are topped up with Champagne to make a very easy drinking Martini. Perfect to start the weekend.

Recipe
40ml London Dry Gin
40ml Dry Vermouth
20ml Brut Champagne
January 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Would have been Mark Hollis birthday today, the genius behind Talk Talk and this incredible album.
January 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Friday Cocktails: Black Cherry Vespa Martini
Ok so I'm not sure James Bond would have approved, but it still doesn't make it wrong. The Black Cherry Gin works.

3 Ounces Black Cherry Gin
1 Ounce Clean Vodka
1/2 Ounce Lillet Blanc
Touch of the cherry syrup
Garnish with Luxardo Maraschino cherry
December 20, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Happy Friday 13th ❤️
December 13, 2024 at 7:33 PM
Friday Cocktails: French 75

Tis the season for Champagne cocktails, and this is an excellent one!

46ml Gin
15ml Lemon juice
2 bar spoons of sugar syrup
December 13, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Friday Cocktails: looking towards Christmas, I've gone for a couple of festive looking beauties! Pink Lady & Chile Spiced Pomegranate Margarita
Cont for recipe
December 6, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Reposted by Tone
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says

“We need to leave the ECHR so we can deport people that come illegally & take back control of our borders & that’s what the public wants”

Share if you disagree with his populist boll**** the UK should join Russia & Belarus outside the ECHR

youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says public want to leave the ECHR - let’s put the record straight
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
December 6, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Friday Cocktails: Plum Daiquiri
Very nice 💜

Recipe
60ml White Rum
15ml Lime juice
15ml Sugar Syrup
1 Plum cut into quarters

Muddle Plum with other ingredients in the bottom of a shaker. Shake with ice until cold, double strain into a chilled Martini glass.
November 29, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends. I hope you have an amazing day

Here is my Thanksgiving cocktail: Apple and Maple Old Fashioned!

60ml Calvados
10ml Wild Turkey Bourbon
7.5ml Maple Syrup
1 Dash Orange Bitters
Stir with ice until freezing. Add cinnamon and apple slice to garnish.
November 28, 2024 at 6:44 PM
What the fuck happened that meant all the hope in the 90s turned to shit 🤔
November 23, 2024 at 11:11 PM
One-Sip Martini

30ml Vodka
15ml Amber Vermouth
5ml Fino Sherry

Freeze a shot glass and chill a olive stuffed with roquefort cheese for the garnish
November 23, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Friday Cocktails: Two Citrus Cocktails
Yellow Belly
30 ml Cloudy Lemon Gin
30ml Limoncello
30ml Lemon juice
5ml Sugar Syrup

Clementine Old Fashioned
Muddle a Clementine with 2 bar spoons of syrup
Add clear ice
2 Ounces Bourbon
1 Dashe Angostura Bitters
2 Dashes orange Bitters
November 22, 2024 at 7:10 PM
Friday Cocktails: 20th Century (on the rocks)

The Twentieth Century was first published in William J. Tarling's Cafe Royal Cocktail Book in 1937

Recipe
1 1/2 Ounce No3 Gin
1/2 Ounce Lillet Blanc Vermouth
1/2 Ounce White Creme de Cacao
3/4 Ounce Lemon juice
November 22, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Pound for pound the best live album out there! Pink Floyd "Delicate Sounds of Thunder" (plus I saw them during this tour)!

#pinkfloyd #delicatesoundofthunder #livealbums
November 21, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Frank, old blue eyes Mr Sinatra if you please!
November 16, 2024 at 6:52 PM
Starting Italian theme night with very nice Limoncello Martini! 🍋

45ml Limoncello
45ml Vodka
20ml Lemon juice
Stir with ice, pour into ice cold Martini glasses
Garnish with lemon Peel
November 16, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Starting the Saturday playlist!
Stone Temple Pilots debut album "Core"

@stonetemplepilots.bsky.social @cambridgeaudio.bsky.social
November 16, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Salted Caramel Martini

Recipe 1 Martini
50ml Vodka
15ml Dry Vermouth
7.5ml Caramel Syrup
Pinch salt

Recipe 2 Espresso Martini
60ml Vodka
30ml Espresso Coffee
15ml Kahlua
10ml Caramel Syrup
Pinch salt
November 16, 2024 at 11:47 AM
Penicillin with a Laphroaig float
Recipe
2 Ounces Blended Whiskey (I used Jameson)
3/4 Ounce Lemon juice
3/4 Ounce Honey and ginger Syrup
Shake over ice and pour into a chilled rock glass
Float 2 bar spoons of Laphroaig single Malt Whisky over the top
November 15, 2024 at 10:04 PM
Friday Cocktails: Coconut Daiquiri 🥥

As its getting colder I thought it might be nice to have a taste of summer!
Recipe
2 Ounces White Rum
1 Ounce Lime Juice
3/4 Ounce Coconut Simple Syrup

Shake over ice and pour into a chilled coupe glass decorated with desiccated Coconut
November 15, 2024 at 7:57 PM
What an album 🖤
November 1, 2024 at 10:40 PM