Cocktails and Cocktail Recipes - Difford's Guide
WEBMidnight in Paris. A luxuriant fruity and nutty riff on the classic Champagne Cocktail. A searchable library of over 3,000 easy to follow recipes, including the Mojito, Margarita, Old Fashioned and Daiquiri, and thousands of other vodka cocktail...
Long Island Iced Tea Cocktail Recipe - Difford's Guide
WEBHistory: This infamous drink reached the height of its popularity in the early 1980s and by 1985 The New York Times reported, "A potent alcoholic drink called Long Island Iced Tea is sweeping the Island's bars as well as watering spots across the country. Of the many stories surrounding its origin, perhaps the most credible attributes its creation to the 1970s, perhaps 1972, by Robert "Rosebud ...
French 75 Cocktail Recipe - Difford's Guide
WEBHow to make: STIR powdered sugar with lemon juice in base of shaker until sugar dissolves. Add gin, SHAKE with ice and fine strain into chilled glass. TOP with champagne and lightly stir. (Consider pouring half the champagne into the glass first to help reduce foaming.) 1/2 fl oz.
Cocktail Finder - Difford's Guide
WEBCocktail Finder. Keywords. Pick ingredients. Rye whiskey from 80 proof/40% alc./vol. to bottled-in-bond Vodka - all styles of unflavoured (with DIY infusions) Rums - Blended & aged med-bodied 3-5yo molasses rum Whisk (e)y - Rye whiskey (100 proof / 50% alc./vol.) Italicus or other Rosolio di Bergamotto/bergamot liqueur Southern USA-style ...
20 best Angostura Bitters cocktails - Difford's Guide
WEBPink Gin. With: Angostura Aromatic Bitters, dry gin, chilled water and sugar syrup. We say: Hit the perfect balance and dilution and this is a great drink, but it's an equilibrium that's tricky to attain. The Malagueña. With: Angostura Aromatic Bitters, dark rum, amaro, agave syrup and Orange Bitters by Angostura.
Casks - barrel, butt, punchon, pipe, barrique,hogshead - Difford's …
WEBCapacity: 300 litres / 79 US gallons / 66 imp gallons. Commonly used throughout the wine and cognac industries, and consequently also as second-hand casks by the Scotch whisky industry. They are best described as butt-shaped hogsheads. Barrique (Bordeaux type) Capacity: 225 litres / 59 US gallon / 49 imp gallon.
Perfect Martini Cocktail Recipe - Difford's Guide
WEBHistory: The Perfect Martini sits between a Dry Martini (with gin and dry vermouth) and a Sweet Martini (with gin and rosso vermouth) so is logically called a Medium Martini in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.. MARTINI (MEDIUM) COCKTAIL. ¼ French Vermouth. ¼ Italian Vermouth. ½ Dry Gin. Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
20 best Bénédictine cocktails - Difford's Guide
WEBMonte Cassino. With: Rye whiskey, Bénédictine D.O.M., Yellow Chartreuse, and lemon juice. We say: A rye whiskey-laced Bénédictine-influenced riff on a Last Word. Poet's Dream. With: Gin, Bénédictine D.O.M., dry vermouth, and orange bitters. We say: A cocktail from the 1949 edition of Esquire's Handbook for Hosts.
20 best Blue Curaçao cocktails - Difford's Guide
WEBBlue curaçao equals BLUE DRINKS, or at least various shades of aquamarine. There are numerous other orange-flavoured liqueurs but blue curaçao stands out as the only vivid blue ingredient to be found in bars across the world. And like many things from the 1970s, blue drinks are retro and so back in vogue. Here's our best blue curaçao cocktails.
Dark 'N' Stormy (Difford's recipe)
WEBSHAKE first 4 ingredients with ice and strain into ice-filled glass. TOP with ginger beer and briefly stir. 1 2/3 fl oz. Dark/black/blackstrap rum. 2/3 fl oz. Lime juice (freshly squeezed) 1/3 fl oz. Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix) 2 dash.