Cocktails and Cocktail Recipes - Difford's Guide
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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 …
20 best Blue Curaçao cocktails - Difford's Guide
Blue 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.
20 best Chartreuse Verte (Green) cocktails - Difford's Guide
Formulated by Carthusian monks to a recipe dating back to 1764, Chartreuse Verte (Green Chartreuse) adds very distinctive complex herbal notes to a wide variety of cocktails, and with its muscular 55% alcohol strength, it perhaps should be viewed as much as a base spirit as it if a flavour modifying liqueur.
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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 …
20 best Cachaça cocktails - Difford's Guide
A compilation of the 20 best cachaça cocktails would not be complete without a Caipirinha, not only the classic, but one or two more fruity options. However, there's more you can do with Brazil's national spirit and it's not all about muddling limes. The Lavarello and Rabo-de-Galo, for example, are two of my favourite stirred-down cocktails.
Casks - barrel, butt, punchon, pipe, barrique,hogshead - Difford's …
Barrels are a particular size and shape of wooden cask. There are numerous other types of cask and the term ‘barrel’ is often wrongly used as a catch-all alternative generic for cask. Usually made of white oak, casks have been used since Roman times as a means of storing and transporting goods - everything from nails to whiskey.
Paloma Cocktail Recipe - Difford's Guide
History: Paloma is Spanish for 'dove'. Its origins are unknown although it is reputed to date back to the 1950s. Some attribute its creation to the legendary Don Javier Delgado Corona, the former owner/bartender of La Capilla (The Chapel) in Tequila, Mexico, who created the Batanga.
20 best Crème de Banane banana liqueur cocktails - Difford's Guide
Bananas neatly unzip to reveal a healthy tasty snack, especially when overripe and for cocktail use, save your bananas until their skins have brown spots and ideally are turning black. Even the flavour of overripe bananas is enhanced by a splash of banana liqueur. Indeed, some banana liqueurs are so good that you don't need the banana at all in your cocktails.