Cocktails and Cocktail Recipes - Difford's Guide
Right Pear. Your choice of ingredients will dramatically affect this orchard fruity cocktail. For example, Speyside single malt and Chablis work extravagantly well. 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...
Perfect Martini Cocktail Recipe - Difford's Guide
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. In his ...
Manhattan (Perfect) Cocktail Recipe - Difford's Guide
How to make: STIR all ingredients with ice and strain into chilled glass. 2 fl oz. Bourbon whiskey. 5/12 fl oz. Strucchi Rosso Vermouth. 5/12 fl oz. Strucchi Dry Vermouth. 2 dash.
20 best Blue Curaçao cocktails - Difford's Guide
With: Vodka, gin, Bacardi Carta Blanca, blanco tequila, blue curaçao, lemon juice, lime juice, sugar syrup and lemon-lime soda. We say: A blued Long Island Iced Tea by both colour and language. Sharman-Cox Daiquiri. With: Light rum, blue curaçao, lime juice, lemon juice, sugar syrup and egg white.
20 best Chartreuse Verte (Green) cocktails - Difford's Guide
The Dante. With: Blanco tequila, Green Chartreuse, kümmel liqueur, sugar syrup and lime juice. We say: Citrusy fresh and herbaceous, particularly caraway from the kummel, with tequila providing the backbone. The Last Word Cocktail. With: Dry gin, Green Chartreuse, maraschino liqueur, and lime juice.
Rusty Nail Cocktail Recipe - Difford's Guide
STIR all ingredients with ice and strain into ice-filled glass. 1 1/2 fl oz. Blended Scotch whisky. 1/2 fl oz. Honey herbal liqueur (e.g. Drambuie) 2 dash. Angostura Aromatic Bitters. Read about cocktail measures and measuring. The author of that seminal work, The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, David Augustus Embury was born on this day in 1886 in ...
Hugo Spritz Cocktail Recipe - Difford's Guide
POUR ingredients into ice-filled glass and briefly stir. 2 fl oz. Fiol Extra Dry Prosecco. 2/3 fl oz. Elderflower liqueur. 5/12 fl oz. Thomas Henry Soda Water. Read about cocktail measures and measuring. The author of that seminal work, The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, David Augustus Embury was born on this day in 1886 in Pine Woods, upstate New ...
Casks - barrel, butt, punchon, pipe, barrique,hogshead - Difford's …
Capacity: 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.
20 best Angostura Bitters cocktails - Difford's Guide
Pink 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.
20 best Falernum cocktails - Difford's Guide
Falernum's Caribbean origins and associations with rum led to it becoming a staple ingredient for Trader Vic and Don Beachcomber in the 1930s with many contemporary bartenders also using falernum in tropical-style cocktails. The following 20 cocktails with falernum include tropical cocktails but also spirit-forward and stirred cocktails, the other style of cocktail where falernum …