CLASSIC COCKTAILS – Part two – COSMOPOLITAN
COSMOPOLITAN
Ah, Carrie Bradshaw what have you done?!
James Bond took the Vodka Martini and gave it immortality! But Sex and the City nearly
ruined one of the great classics!
Until 1999, the Cosmopolitan was one of the hottest drinks around and it is easy to see why.
It was strong, tart and tasted like, just maybe, you shouldn’t be enjoyingthe flavoures too much… Invented by Cheryl Cook in 1988, perfected by Toby Cecchini and popularised by the immortal Dale de Groff, it is the quintissential New York cocktail!
It is quite easy to make and memorise, and quitehard to get wrong. However, making the drink bright red , like the girls on TV were drinking it is a sure fire way to screw it up. At its most basic, the Cosmo is a Kamikaze with a splash of cranberry juice and should be a pale pink. If your Cosmo is the colour of cranberry juice, chances are that thats all it will taste like!
The perfect garnish for this drink is a flamd orange zest, made by igniting the oils from an orange peel over the surface of the drink. This gives it a warm, rich aroma and enhances the flavours from the orange liquour.
1 1/2 oz Citrus Vodka
1/2 oz Cointreau
1/4 oz fresh lime juice
3/4 oz Cranberry juice
Shake all ingredients then fine strain into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with your flamed orange zest!
Jay
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CLASSIC COCKTAILS – Part three – Bloody Mary
BLOODY MARY
In days gone by used to be Sunday mornings best friend, the Bloody Mary cocktail has been a favourite of many. Originally a half and half mix of Vodka and Tomato Juice, Fernand Pentiot a visiting American bartender at Harry’s Bar in Paris remade it into the Bloody Mary by adding salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper, Worcestershire sauceand lemon juice to the mix then giving it a shake before serving.
The history of the name is somewhat less clear. Pentiot has been quoted as saying it referes to a girl called Mary at the Bucket of Blood club in Chicago, so called because in the evenings it got so violent that they had to throw a bucket of blood on the street every night after they finished cleaning up!
Like the Caipirovska and the Collins, the Bloody Mary is easily adapted according to personal preference or what is in the cupboard! Mine goes something like this:
1 3/4 oz Ketel One Vodka
1/2 bar spoon La Chinata Paprika
4 dashes Tobasco
1/2 oz Port
3/4 oz Lemon juice
1 bar spoon Olive Brine
Sambal Paste
Cracked Pepper
1/3 bar spoon Horse Raddish
150 ml Tomato Juice
Pinch of chopped Basil
In a mixing glass combine all ingredients and add ice. Shake vigorously. Strain ingredients into Collins glass and Garnish with fresh a cucumber slice and a pinch of rock salt!
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Drink of the Week – Passionfruit Daiquiri
Ingredients
Double shot of goldern rum
Juice of a 1 lime
1 shot of passionfruit gomme
1 shot of passoa
1 shot passionfruit juice
Equipment
High ball or Collins glass
Halved passionfruit
Mix all ingredients together mix together over loads of ice in Boston cocktail shaker, shake a few times and pour over crushed ice in glass. Garnish with halved passionfruit and grenade in if you like.
If you like rum punch – add pineapple juice and lemon juice.
Enjoy 
Danny Denhard
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Justin Timberlakes tequila – 901
Justin TImberlake releases his new business idea – Tequila named 901
Interviewed with The People magazine
901 is that time of night when your evening is ending, but your night is just beginning,
Something tells me this will sell – JT is a real business man
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drink of the week – Dr Peppers
Bit of a drink which takes me back
Dr Pepper
Ingredients -
Half pint lager
Half pint cola
Shot amaretto
Mix the half pint of cola and the half pint of lager then drop in the shot of amaretto.
Down for effect
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Drink of the week – Sloe Gin Sours
This week’s drink of the week is Sloe Gin Sours
Ingredients -
50 ml (double shot of Sloe Gin Plymouth or Gordon’s)
Juice of 2 limes
Crushed ice
Orange bitters
Gomme
How to mix -
In cocktail shaker pour in double shot of Sloe Gin, squeeze two limes, small amount of gomme and two shakes of orange bitters
Shake well with two scoops of ice
Pour into highball glass
Garnish with slice of lime and enjoy
Danny Denhard
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drink of the week – Japanese Mojito
Japanese Mojito
What you need
50ml Zubrowka vodka (its the Polish Bison Grass vodka)
25ml lime juice (usually two limes worth)
25ml Shiso syrup (its a vanilla tasting gomme/sugar syrip)
Mint leaves (8 usually makes the best Mojito)
One Shisco leaf to garnish (available from Oriental stores or some better supermarkets)
Dash of soda
How to make it
Grab a high ball glass
Muddle the mint leaves with the Shiso syrup,
Add crushed ice
Pour in Vodka and lime juice into ingredients.
Top with ice.
Muddle really well
Serve in a high-ball glass with a Shiso leaf and top up with dash of soda.
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Drink of the week 07/02/2009
Rum Voodoo – If you love apple crumble or the warm apple pie you’ll love this one
50ml Appleton V/X – or any good quality golden rum
25ml sweet vermouth
25ml fresh lime juice or 2 limes squeezed
25ml gomme (sugar syrip)
100ml apple juice (has to be pressed/cloudy apple juice)
HOW TO MAKE IT
Pour all the ingredients including the juice into a cocktail shaker with cubed ice
Shake well, strain into an ice-filled highball glass
Garnish with flamed cinnamon
(cinnamon powder from shaker, light with lighter while sprinkle of cinnamon)
Drink and enjoy 
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Drink of the week – week 1
Drink of the week
As a famous holiday (Malia) once taught a few select friends, have 2 and you be be fucked sorry drunk lol.
Ok its called a headfucker
In short it’s 5 white spirits (1 shot each) – so anything from vodka, gin, white rum, treble sec, white tequilla (I think you get it)
So get a pint glass
Fill with ice
Put in your 5 shots of white spirits
Top up with fruit juice of your choice (so if you have more an a shot of juice you have done it wrong)
Drink and enjoy
For an alternative ingredients list click here
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