Cocktails and Cocktail Recipes - Difford's Guide
Claret Cobbler. Fortified and slightly sweetened red wine, served cobbler-style with crushed ice. 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...
Sazerac (Difford's Split Base) Cocktail Recipe
How to make: 1. POUR absinthe into an ice-filled old-fashioned glass, TOP with water, and leave to stand. 2. THROW other ingredients with ice and set aside. 3. STRAIN contents of the old-fashioned glass into a chilled shot glass to be served as …
French 75 Cocktail Recipe - Difford's Guide
Variant: Soixante-Quinze (1915 Washington Herald recipe) - with dry gin, applejack bonded, grenadine and lemon juice. "75" Cocktail (Vermeire's 1922 recipe) - with dry gin, calvados, lemon juice and grenadine. "75" Cocktail (MacElhone's 1926 recipe) - with calvados, dry gin, grenadine and absinthe. French 75 (Judge Jr's 1927 recipe) - with lemon juice, powdered sugar, dry gin …
Manhattan (Perfect) Cocktail Recipe - Difford's Guide
to make a manhattan (perfect) use whisk (e)y - bourbon whiskey, vermouth - rosso/rouge/sweet vermouth (di torino), vermouth - dry, angostura or other aromatic bitters.
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.
Long Island Iced Tea Cocktail Recipe - Difford's Guide
History: 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 …
20 best Bénédictine cocktails - Difford's Guide
Monte 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.
Paper Plane Cocktail Recipe - Difford's Guide
History: A riff on the classic Last Word created in 2007 by Sam Ross for The Violet Hour, Chicago, USA.He first made it with Amaro Nonino Quintessentia and Campari but switched Campari out for a less bitter aperitivo liqueur soon after creating the cocktail when he started making it at New York's Milk & Honey.Sam says, "This cocktail is named after the M.I.A. track that was blasting on repeat ...
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.
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 ...